What's the difference between armada and fleet?

Armada


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A fleet of armed ships; a squadron. Specifically, the Spanish fleet which was sent to assail England, a. d. 1558.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A revised policy would have to fulfil the twin objectives of ending the torture and other violations without rekindling the armada of boats.
  • (2) The study was done in three health care systems in the region: civil servants ("Mutualidad de Funcionarios Civiles del Estado: MUFACE") armed forces group ("Instituto Social de las Fuerzas Armadas: ISFAS") and the national system ("Instituto Nacional de la Salud: INSALUD").
  • (3) The party still faces a barrage of tactical voting by the right and left to stop it winning final-round votes – described by one Lille party worker as “the onslaught of an armada”.
  • (4) His invasion fleet of 463 ships, twice the size of the Armada, set sail in 1688.
  • (5) They danced, prayed and sang – and stood in long lines in front of the armadas of portable bathrooms along the beachfront.
  • (6) The government sent skimmers and booms to help clear up the oil , while BP recruited an "armada" of fishermen , otherwise banned from fishing for shrimp off the waters off Louisiana, to help lay some of the 2.25 million feet of containment booms to contain the slick.
  • (7) López Rivera eventually became a member of a clandestine group called Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional , which argued that armed force was a justified tactic in the fight for Puerto Rican independence.
  • (8) Col Tejero ignored Gen Armada and, instead of negotiating the formation of a government of national unity, demanded the creation of military junta.
  • (9) Only bad weather helped it avert a true disaster when the Spanish armada tried to invade in 1588.
  • (10) That said, however, it seems there is no direct correlation between the game and the film, in which a fleet of US ships is attacked by an armada of alien invaders, known as The Regents.
  • (11) Israel's deputy foreign minister, Danny Ayalon, said: "The armada of hate and violence in support of the Hamas terror organisation was a premeditated and outrageous provocation.
  • (12) Sitting ducks for an armada of hackers, who are every bit as focused on stealing our data as we are relaxed about storing it.
  • (13) "It was the king himself who, after realising the nature of the threats to Spain, democracy and the crown ... had proposed to me in 1980 that I might head a government of unity," Gen Armada told his prison chaplain shortly after starting his 30-year jail sentence, the book reports.
  • (14) Col Tejero gave himself up and Gen Armada was soon discovered to have masterminded the plot.
  • (15) He howled when Diaz tried to boast about his armada of fighting coaches, portraying them as battle-tested kickboxing warriors as opposed to McGregor’s more eclectic group of movement and striking coaches.
  • (16) They were sure that Juan Carlos would respond by calling on the aristocratic Gen Armada, his former personal secretary, to lead a government of national unity.
  • (17) "The forecasts were correct, but it was soon clear that the armadas of ice that suddenly started to appear were thick and old."
  • (18) They showed 82% approval among viewers for the coverage of the armada along the river Thames.
  • (19) "He always told me I should trust Armada, that the best solution was a government of national unity led by him."
  • (20) Newly revealed transcripts of phone conversations between the king and Gen Armada show that, whatever may have been said before, Juan Carlos never wavered in his opposition to the coup once it started.

Fleet


Definition:

  • (n. & a.) To sail; to float.
  • (n. & a.) To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance.
  • (n. & a.) To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.
  • (v. t.) To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf.
  • (v. t.) To hasten over; to cause to pass away lighty, or in mirth and joy.
  • (v. t.) To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.
  • (v. t.) To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
  • (v. i.) Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble.
  • (v. i.) Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
  • (v. i.) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
  • (v. i.) A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London.
  • (v. i.) A former prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled up).
  • (v. i.) To take the cream from; to skim.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He's finding solace, fleeting and fragmentary, and every springy guitar lick is its own benediction," Chinen wrote.
  • (2) Fleeting though it may have been (he jetted off to New York this morning and is due in Toronto on Saturday), there was a poignant reason for his appearance: he was here to play a tribute set to Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of house and one of Morales's closest friends, who died suddenly in March.
  • (3) If battery and EV prices fall more rapidly over the period, and the price of oil increases more rapidly, replacing the fleet with EVs could be cost-neutral.
  • (4) As aircraft capable of sustaining high "G" maneuvers enter the U.S. Navy Fleet, the reported incidence of cervical injury to aircrew seems to have increased.
  • (5) A popular strain of foreign policy thought has long held that the US should be guided primarily by self-interest rather than human rights concerns: hence, since the US wants its Fifth Fleet to remain in Bahrain and believes ( with good reason ) that these dictators will serve US interests far better than if popular will in these countries prevails, it is right to prop up these autocrats.
  • (6) Her unclothed remains were found six months later by mushroom pickers at Yateley Heath Woods, near Fleet, Hampshire, 25 miles away.
  • (7) A warship from Russia’s Pacific fleet also accompanied former Russian president Medvedev’s visit to San Francisco in 2010.” Officials from the Russian embassy in Canberra declined to confirm the details when contacted by Guardian Australia on Wednesday.
  • (8) One of the Conservative party's most influential voices on defence has conceded that Britain can no longer be regarded as a "division-one military power", and raised questions over the sense of replacing the Trident nuclear fleet with a new generation of missile-launching submarines.
  • (9) But although under the ayatollahs there have been fleeting moments of optimism, there have also been long periods of repression.
  • (10) And it is certainly before you factor in the service's upgrade (worth around £9bn, and paid for by the public), and the fleet of Pendolino trains (again, largely subsidised by the government).
  • (11) I couldn’t even imagine it because I have done it so many times.” The incident received only fleeting national coverage, occurring less than a month before the presidential election.
  • (12) "We have rhetorical pressure, which we are using, and we have the Seventh Fleet, which nobody wants to use, and in between our options are more constrained," he said.
  • (13) When he talks about his work and his motivation, he exudes an intensity, as if his time with you is also fleeting.
  • (14) Many of Long’s pieces are fragile and fleeting: a stripe of un-mown grass in an otherwise close cropped lawn at the Henry Moore foundation , a misty circle in Scotland that lasted only until the day warmed up, a stripe of green grass left by plucking daisies, or paintings in wet mud that dry out and crumble.
  • (15) He seemed to have his finger on an invisible button, hardwired into the brains of the Fleet Street editors, driving them into an apoplectic frenzy of rage each time he chose to push it.
  • (16) But the task remains to move the country's remaining fossil fuel-dependent sectors to clean technology: Iceland's fishing fleet, cars and buses, which run on oil and petrol, ironically make the country one of the highest per head greenhouse gas emitters in Europe .
  • (17) 1,4-Dideoxy-1,4-imino-D-mannitol (DIM) was synthesized chemically from benzyl-alpha-D-mannopyranoside [Fleet et al (1984) J. Chem.
  • (18) The agency hopes it can later extend the work to urban rivers outside London, but is pessimistic that parts of the Fleet might one day be released to public view.
  • (19) The Institute of Cetacean Research, a quasi-governmental body that oversees the hunts, had hoped to use sales from the meat to cover the costs of the whaling fleet's expeditions, she said.
  • (20) "The council's fleet of company cars have upper limits on the CO2 they produce," says Thorp.

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