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D0390200 (drĭft)v. drift·ed, drift·ing, drifts v.intr.1. To be carried along by currents of air or water: a balloon drifting eastward; as the wreckage drifted toward shore.2. To proceed or move unhurriedly or aimlessly: drifting among the party guests; a day laborer, drifting from town to town.3. To live or behave without a clear purpose or goal: drifted through his college years unable to decide on a career.4. To have no continuing focus; stray: My attention drifted during the boring presentation.5. To vary from or oscillate randomly about a fixed setting, position, or mode of operation.6. To be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of a current: snow drifting to five feet.v.tr.1. To cause to be carried in a current: drifting the logs downstream.2. To pile up in banks or heaps: Wind drifted the loose straw against the barn.3. Western US To drive (livestock) slowly or far afield, especially for grazing.n.1. Something moving along in a current of air or water: a drift of logs in the river.2. A bank or pile, as of sand or snow, heaped up by currents of air or water.3. Geology Rock debris transported and deposited by or from ice, especially by or from a glacier.4. a. A general trend or tendency, as of opinion. See Synonyms at tendency.b. General meaning or purport; tenor: caught the drift of the conversation.5. a. A gradual change in position: an iceberg's eastward drift.b. A gradual deviation from an original course, model, method, or intention.c. Variation or random oscillation about a fixed setting, position, or mode of behavior.6. A gradual change in the output of a circuit or amplifier.7. The rate of flow of a water current.8. a. A tool for ramming or driving something down.b. A tapered steel pin for enlarging and aligning holes.9. a. A horizontal or nearly horizontal passageway in a mine running through or parallel to a vein.b. A secondary mine passageway between two main shafts or tunnels.10. A drove or herd, especially of swine.
[From Middle English, drove, herd, act of driving; see dhreibh- in Indo-European roots.]
drift′y adj.

drifted

(ˈdrɪftɪd) adjaccumulated