Definition of drift

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Drift (n.) The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.

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Drift :: Drift (n.) The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts..
Driftweed :: Driftweed (n.) Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.
Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.
Streamed :: Stream (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners..
Driving :: Driving (n.) Tendency; drift.
Drift :: Drift (n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim..
Driftless :: Driftless (a.) Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
Driftway :: Driftway (n.) A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle..
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..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
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..
Crab :: Crab (v. i.) To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel..
Level :: Level (n.) A horizontal passage, drift, or adit, in a mine..
Gurt :: Gurt (n.) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift..
Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Anything that drifts.
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand..
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..
Driftpin :: Driftpin (n.) A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9..
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