Definition of drift

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Drift (n.) Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.

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Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes..
Drift :: Drift (n.) A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds..
Strang :: Strand (v. i.) To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water..
Turn :: Turn (n.) A pit sunk in some part of a drift.
Drifted :: Drifted (imp. & p. p.) of Drif.
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..
Drift :: Drift (n.) A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles..
Driftway :: Driftway (n.) A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle..
Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Anything that drifts.
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..
Scope :: Scope (n.) That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; object..
Drift :: Drift (n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river..
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..
Derelict :: Derelict (a.) Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful..
Club :: Club (v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
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..
Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A working drift or level.
Jet :: "Jet (n.) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument..
Drift :: Drift (n.) A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach..
Streamed :: Stream (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners..
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