Definition of drift

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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..

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Face :: Face (n.) The end or wall of the tunnel, drift, or excavation, at which work is progressing or was last done..
Gurt :: Gurt (n.) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift..
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 (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..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting..
Drove :: Drove (n.) A road for driving cattle; a driftway.
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..
Derelict :: Derelict (a.) Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful..
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..
Drifted :: Drifted (imp. & p. p.) of Drif.
Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.
Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
Drift :: Drift (n.) The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
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..
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..
Streamed :: Stream (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners..
Intent :: Intent (n.) The act of turning the mind toward an object; hence, a design; a purpose; intention; meaning; drift; aim..
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 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..
Drift :: Drift (n.) A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles..
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