Definition of drift

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Drift (n.) That which is driven, forced, or urged along.

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Driving :: Driving (n.) Tendency; drift.
Drift :: Drift (n.) A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
Afloat :: Afloat (adv. & a.) Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat..
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. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body..
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..
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..
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..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes..
Driftwind :: Driftwind (n.) A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting..
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..
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..
Driftless :: Driftless (a.) Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
Drift :: Drift (n.) That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
Snowdrift :: Snowdrift (n.) A bank of drifted snow.
Drift :: Drift (n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river..
Univocal :: Univocal (n.) Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular.
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