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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Drifty :: Drifty (a.) Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like..
Tide :: Tide (n.) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
Leeway :: Leeway (n.) The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course; drift.
Tone :: Tone (n.) Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory..
Level :: Level (n.) A horizontal passage, drift, or adit, in a mine..
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Wood drifted or floated by water.
Drift :: Drift (n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river..
Afloat :: Afloat (adv. & a.) Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat..
Club :: Club (v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
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..
Drumlin :: Drumlin (n.) A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion..
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..
Preglacial :: Preglacial (a.) Prior to the glacial or drift period.
Driftbolt :: Driftbolt (n.) A bolt for driving out other bolts.
Torpedo :: Torpedo (n.) A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore..
Heading :: Heading (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
Boulder :: Boulder (n.) A mass of any rock, whether rounded or not, that has been transported by natural agencies from its native bed. See Drift..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece..
Driftway :: Driftway (n.) Same as Drift, 11..
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