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.
Score :: Score (n.) To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch..
Drifty :: Drifty (a.) Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like..
Face :: Face (n.) The end or wall of the tunnel, drift, or excavation, at which work is progressing or was last done..
Tone :: Tone (n.) Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory..
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
Adit :: Adit (n.) An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel..
Drift :: Drift (n.) Anything driven at random.
Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east..
Glacialist :: Glacialist (n.) One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers..
Drift :: Drift (n.) That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
Drifting :: Drifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drif.
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..
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 angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting..
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.
Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A working drift or level.
Drift :: Drift (n.) Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
Streamed :: Stream (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners..
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