Definition of drift

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

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Tenor :: Tenor (n.) That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
Level :: Level (n.) A horizontal passage, drift, or adit, in a mine..
Leeway :: Leeway (n.) The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course; drift.
Tendency :: Tendency (n.) Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result..
Preglacial :: Preglacial (a.) Prior to the glacial or drift period.
Heading :: Heading (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift..
Club :: Club (v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
Univocal :: Univocal (n.) Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular.
Drift :: Drift (n.) A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework..
Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts..
Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.
Spooney :: Spoondrift (n.) Spray blown from the tops waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift..
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
Sand :: Sand (v. t.) To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.
Streamed :: Stream (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners..
Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Anything that drifts.
Drift :: Drift (a.) That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud..
Drift :: Drift (n.) A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like..
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