Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of drift is as below...

Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance through which a current flows in a given time.

Heading :: Heading (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift..

Drifting :: Drifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drif.

Drifty :: Drifty (a.) Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like..

Adrift :: Adrift (adv. & a.) Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.

Eschar :: Eschar (n.) In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams..

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..

Drive :: Drive (n.) In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift..

Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body..

Leeway :: Leeway (n.) The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course; drift.

Drift :: Drift (n.) A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework..

Turn :: Turn (n.) A pit sunk in some part of a drift.

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..

Anchorless :: Anchorless (a.) Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.

Drifted :: Drifted (imp. & p. p.) of Drif.

Tone :: Tone (n.) Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory..

Drift :: Drift (n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.

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

Drift :: Drift (n.) A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles..

Club :: Club (v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.

Random Fonts

Most Popular