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Verb: drift drift- Be in motion due to some air or water current
"the boat drifted on the lake"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"
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Noun: drift drift- A force that moves something along
- impetus, impulsion - The gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane)
- A process of linguistic change over a period of time
- A large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents
- A general tendency to change (as of opinion)
- trend, movement - The pervading meaning or tenor
"caught the general drift of the conversation"
- purport - A horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
"they dug a drift parallel with the vein"
- heading, gallery
Derived forms: drifting, drifts, drifted See also: driftage, drifter, drifting, drive Type of: accumulate, action, activity, amass, change, circulate, conglomerate, crop, cumulate, disposition, exist, float, force, gather, go, graze, inclination, linguistic process, live, locomote, mass, move, natural action, natural process, passageway, pasture, pile up, strain, subsist, survive, tendency, tenor, travel, vary Encyclopedia: Drift Drift, Cornwall |