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drift English

Meaning drift meaning

What does drift mean?
Definitions in simple English

drift Verb

— An action when an object moves towards the earth slowly. The plane ran out of fuel, therefore it had to drift slowly down to the nearby airport.

drift

— verb (= be adrift, blow) be in motion due to some air or water current The leaves were blowing in the wind the boat drifted on the lake The sailboat was adrift on the open sea the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore — noun a force that moves something along — verb (= stray) wander from a direct course or at random The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her don't drift from the set course — verb (= roll, wander, roam, rove, vagabond) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment The gypsies roamed the woods roving vagabonds the wandering Jew The cattle roam across the prairie the laborers drift from one town to the next They rolled from town to town — noun the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane) — noun a process of linguistic change over a period of time — noun a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents — noun a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine they dug a drift parallel with the vein — noun (= trend, movement) a general tendency to change (as of opinion) not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book a broad movement of the electorate to the right — noun the pervading meaning or tenor caught the general drift of the conversation — verb cause to be carried by a current drift the boats downstream — verb move in an unhurried fashion The unknown young man drifted among the invited guests — verb drive slowly and far afield for grazing drift the cattle herds westwards — verb be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current snow drifting several feet high sand drifting like snow — verb be subject to fluctuation The stock market drifted upward — verb vary or move from a fixed point or course stock prices are drifting higher — verb live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely My son drifted around for years in California before going to law school

Synonyms drift synonyms

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drift English » English

float wander roam waft rove flow trend tramp sail ramble stray be adrift purport movement heap glide tendency swan stream range meaning meander mass leeway digress current bob vagabond travel stack impetus gallery freewheel drifting deviation deflection circulate wander aimlessly walk variation traipse stroll shoal shifting shift scope saunter run roll move gently

Topics drift topics

What do people use drift to talk about?
Universe, creation Sky Weather

Snow, ice
Universe, creation World Solid, liquid, gas

Gas
Language and thought Think

Tendency
Physical actions Move Move in a direction Move down

Fall

Conjugation drift conjugation

How do you conjugate drift?

drift · verb

Examples drift examples

How do I use drift in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Many people drift through life without a purpose.
To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
I like to lie on my back and watch the clouds drift by.
Without gravity, a satellite launched from the Earth would simply drift off endlessly into space, traveling in a straight line, instead of circling the planet.
I catch your drift.
Tom started to drift off to sleep.
I get your drift.
He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.

Movie subtitles

Maybe the 'thighs' are a poetic sailing term for the deck either side of the companionway, if you catch my drift.
Tell him to open up if they drift around that side.
The drift's tightening, Disko.
They must have seen the boat drift.
Don't you let yourself drift into thieves' tricks, Maximych.
You can let your thoughts drift downstream. till they carry your troubles clean outta sight.
We'll drift for six or seven hours while we jury-rig and re-bend.
Mr. Rossi, check the wind and estimate the drift.
We'll drift till dawn.
I can cut loose, drift out beyond the breakwater. before I start my engines.
While I was watching you, exotic words drifted across the mirror of my mind as summer clouds drift across the sky.
I used to toss a scoop of ice cream in the air adjust for wind drift, velocity, altitude, and, wham, in the cone every time.
Drift.
It was a snow drift but the heart beat no one knew.
You catch my drift.
If they're native, one of them is bound to drift from the coolies' quarters, and end up waiting on you at breakfast. And that's curtains for a man in this country.
You'll drift off in no time.
They know we're stuck. They must have seen the boat drift out.
Yes, I can feel the drift.
I know, but people can love and people can still drift apart.
I was letting things drift.
Check the wind and estimate the drift.
I tell you, once you drift rudderless you will soon be stranded.
They must have seen the boat drift out.
I know, but people can love. and people can still drift apart.
I'll drift along in your wake.
She'll go to a new town, drift up to the right bar stool.
They're in the drift.
A 12-knot drift.
But children do drift away from their parents.
I hope you get my drift.
Probably, it went down with the ship, but there's the possibility it was knocked loose and may drift ashore somewhere today, tomorrow, who knows?
The beaker-heads, the finger-in-the-wind boys say, calculating the rate of drift or what have you. About five months before it gets here.

News and current affairs

Indeed, the historical evidence slams you over the head with the fact that, whereas government debt can drift upward inexorably for years, the end usually comes quite suddenly.
The majority of these voters will probably now support Morsi, as opposed to staying home (the general drift before the verdicts).
Instead, the price of gold often seems to drift far above or far below its fundamental long-term value for extended periods.
Some non-democratic systems seem to evoke deeper support, because they are based on religious or national communal solidarity, and because closed societies minimize doubt, drift, and criticism.
But the main question now is whether Iraq will drift along lines somewhere between these two scenarios, increasingly resembling Afghanistan.
This is not an argument for drift.
So the most likely outcome is more of the same: continued drift in a state of semi-stagnation.
Increased sand drift was one of the effects noted during and after the first Gulf war.
A new policy is needed not only in order to halt America's drift into impotence as it tries to prevent Iraq from spiraling into full-scale civil war, but also because the map of power in the Middle East has changed dramatically.
Some of the past century's greatest intellectual triumphs, such as those related to the expanding universe and continental drift, have not been celebrated.
But with the WTO stuck in drift and deadlock over the past few years, there is a race to secure preferential access to the markets of the major powers, and to defuse trade tension by locking into strong bilateral and regional partnerships.
Without such efforts, the Atlantic Partnership, at the moment of its greatest prosperity, may be doomed to drift and divorce.
The drift in transatlantic relations during the eight years of George W. Bush's presidency was meant to be stopped - and even reversed.
The main reason for the new dose of transatlantic drift is that the crisis is being experienced differently.
Reinforcing this shift is Turkey's drift toward authoritarianism, which is undermining the viability of its candidacy for EU membership.
But piecemeal arrests will not be enough to reverse the drift if a culture of intolerance is allowed to fester.
All of Asia's powers, including China and Japan, will have to play a part in stopping Bangladesh's drift into fanaticism and chaos.
Among Republicans this sentiment is, of course, no surprise, given their party's steady rightward drift and consistent antipathy toward President Barack Obama.
This drift towards populism exists everywhere in Europe nowadays, but it is particularly damaging when it affects Europe's leading country.
Equally worrisome is the recent drift of former imperial powers Russia and Turkey.
In the meantime, Japan will drift, unable to take any significant foreign policy decision at a time when Asia's security landscape is changing rapidly.
And the oversight that warped Kelvin's estimate - the possibility that fluid motion could efficiently transport heat within the Earth's interior - turned out to be critical to understanding plate tectonics and continental drift.
No single mechanism, it seems, can be studied in isolation; at a very basic level, factors like selection, drift, and epigenetics work together and become inseparable.
As such, this does not makes the drift in German policy - which manifests itself, for example, in a refusal to lead in the present crisis - any better.
Her assault on excessively powerful trade unions, moreover, made Britain governable, at a time when the country seemed to be slipping into drift and disorder.
Ever since key public figures signed a manifesto in a French magazine denouncing the dangers of a monarchical drift - without ever mentioning the president's name - the political atmosphere in France has been electric.
With this in mind, we used a new planning tool that allows building rights to drift.

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