Definition of drift

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Drift (v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand..

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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..
Drive :: Drive (n.) In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift..
Driftbolt :: Driftbolt (n.) A bolt for driving out other bolts.
Intent :: Intent (n.) The act of turning the mind toward an object; hence, a design; a purpose; intention; meaning; drift; aim..
Adrift :: Adrift (adv. & a.) Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.
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 (n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river..
Drift :: Drift (n.) Anything driven at random.
Drift :: Drift (n.) The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven..
Driftweed :: Driftweed (n.) Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.
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..
Turn :: Turn (n.) A pit sunk in some part of a drift.
Univocal :: Univocal (n.) Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular.
Driving :: Driving (n.) Tendency; drift.
Driftpiece :: Driftpiece (n.) An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail..
Driftway :: Driftway (n.) Same as Drift, 11..
Drifty :: Drifty (a.) Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like..
Gurt :: Gurt (n.) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift..
Glacialist :: Glacialist (n.) One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers..
Run :: Run (n.) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by license of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes..
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