Definition of drift

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Drift (n.) A driving; a violent movement.

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Afloat :: Afloat (adv. & a.) Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat..
Driftless :: Driftless (a.) Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body..
Preglacial :: Preglacial (a.) Prior to the glacial or drift period.
Driving :: Driving (n.) Tendency; drift.
Float :: Float (n.) To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air..
Tone :: Tone (n.) Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory..
Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
Tunnel :: Tunnel (n. .) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; -- distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel..
Strang :: Strand (v. i.) To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water..
Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Anything that drifts.
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand..
Leeway :: Leeway (n.) The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course; drift.
Tenor :: Tenor (n.) That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
Club :: Club (v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
Drift :: Drift (n.) A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven..
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