fleeting
Meanings
Verb
- move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart
- disappear gradually
- present participle and gerund of fleet
Adjective Satellite
- lasting for a markedly brief time
- "a fleeting glance"
Adj
- Passing quickly; of short duration.
Noun
- An automatic operation mode of an absolute signal that reserves a route for several trains following one another, without the need for dispatcher to re-set the route for each train.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English fleten (“to float”), from Old English flēotan (“to float”), from Proto-Germanic *fleutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-. By surface analysis, fleet + -ing.
Synonyms
blow over, brief, dart, deciduous, ephemeral, evanesce, evanescent, fade, fleet, fleeting, flit, flutter, flying, fugacious, fugitive, instant, momentaneous, momentary, pass, pass off, passing, perishable, quick, seasonable, short, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitive, transitory, volatile, whilend
Scrabble Score: 12
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