fleeting

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Verb

present participle and gerund of fleet

fleet

• Noun
• Verb
• Adj

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Concepts

éphémère

fugace

fugitif

momentané

passager

pâle

temporaire

transitoire

vain

vide

odeur

👃

bref

clair

inconstant

bouffée

Synonymes

ephemeral

transient

passing

momentary

evanescent

transitory

temporary

fugacious

short-lived

brief

fugitive

faint

momentaneous

momentarily

occasional

odor

pale

periodic

shortlived

smell

👃

spasmodic

transitional

transpiring

vain

whiff

vapourish

like a bubble on liquid

vaporific

vaporish

vapourific

undurable

volatilizable

quick-fading

volatilisable

airy

momentany

convertible

deciduous

empty

episodic

evaporable

fickle

fly

✈️

impermanent

interim

intermittent

light

miserable

moving

Traductions

fugaz

flüchtig

effimero

vorübergehend

efímero

caduco

fuggevole

pasajero

vergänglich

efêmero

volatile

fugaz

fugaç

fuggitivo

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈfliːtɪŋ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: fleten

Hérité de ancien anglais: flēotan

In summary

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.