Definition of drift

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

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Driftwind :: Driftwind (n.) A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps..
Driftweed :: Driftweed (n.) Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.
Drift :: Drift (n.) The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Wood drifted or floated by water.
Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
Streamed :: Stream (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners..
Drift :: Drift (n.) Anything driven at random.
Univocal :: Univocal (n.) Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular.
Drive :: Drive (n.) In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift..
Afloat :: Afloat (adv. & a.) Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat..
Driftless :: Driftless (a.) Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
Drifted :: Drifted (imp. & p. p.) of Drif.
Drift :: Drift (n.) That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
Drifting :: Drifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drif.
Drift :: Drift (n.) A driving; a violent movement.
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..
Glacialist :: Glacialist (n.) One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers..
Tone :: Tone (n.) Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory..
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..
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