| transient |
| 1. adj. Passing or disappearing with time; transitory. | |
| a transient pleasure | |
| 2. adj. Remaining for only a brief time. | |
| a transient view of a landscape | |
| a transient disease | |
| 3. adj. (physics) Decaying with time, especially exponentially. | |
| 4. adj. (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again. | |
| 5. adj. Occasional; isolated; one-off | |
| 6. adj. Passing through; passing from one person to another. | |
| 7. adj. (music) Intermediate. | |
| 8. adj. (philosophy) Operating beyond itself; having an external effect. | |
| 9. n. Something which is transient. | |
| 10. n. (physics) A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge. | |
| 11. n. (acoustics) A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform which occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum. | |
| 12. n. A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker | |
| 13. n. An unhoused person | |
| fleeting |
| 1. adj. Passing quickly. | |
| 2. v. present participle of fleet | |
| fleet |
| 1. n. A group of vessels or vehicles. | |
| 2. n. Any group of associated items. | |
| 3. n. (nautical) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc. | |
| 4. n. (nautical, British Royal Navy) Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear admiral's command, composed of five sail-of-the-line, with any number of smaller vessels. | |
| 5. n. (obsolete, dialectal) An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek. | |
| 6. n. (nautical) A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured. | |
| 7. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To float. | |
| 8. v. To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of. | |
| a ship that fleets the gulf | |
| 9. v. To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy. | |
| 10. v. (intransitive) To flee, to escape, to speed away. | |
| 11. v. (intransitive) To evanesce, disappear, die out. | |
| 12. v. (nautical) To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle. | |
| 13. v. (nautical, intransitive, of people) To move or change in position. | |
| 14. v. (nautical, obsolete) To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long. | |
| 15. v. To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain. | |
| 16. v. To take the cream from; to skim. | |
| 17. adj. (literary) Swift in motion; light and quick in going from place to place. | |
| 18. adj. (uncommon) Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil. | |
| or |
| 1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
| In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
| He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
| 2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
| 3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
| 4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
| It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
| 5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
| The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
| 6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
| 7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
| 10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
| 11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
| ephemeral |
| 1. n. Something which lasts for a short period of time. | |
| 2. adj. Lasting for a short period of time. | |
| 3. adj. (biology) Existing for only one day, as with some flowers, insects, and diseases. | |
| 4. adj. (geology, of a body of water) Usually dry, but filling with water for brief periods during and after precipitation. | |
