drift

1. n. A driving; a violent movement. Source: opted

2. n. The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse. Source: opted

3. n. Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting. Source: opted

4. 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. Source: opted

5. n. That which is driven, forced, or urged along Source: opted

6. n. Anything driven at random. Source: opted

7. n. A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like. Source: opted

8. n. A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds. Source: opted

9. n. The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments. Source: opted

10. 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. Source: opted

11. n. In South Africa, a ford in a river. Source: opted

12. 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. Source: opted

13. n. A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework. Source: opted

14. n. A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles. Source: opted

15. n. A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel. Source: opted

16. n. The distance through which a current flows in a given time. Source: opted

17. n. The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting. Source: opted

18. n. The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes. Source: opted

19. n. The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece. Source: opted

20. n. The distance between the two blocks of a tackle. Source: opted

21. 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. Source: opted

22. 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. Source: opted

23. v. i. To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts. Source: opted

24. v. i. to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect. Source: opted

25. v. t. To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body. Source: opted

26. v. t. To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand. Source: opted

27. v. t. To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift. Source: opted

28. a. That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud. Source: opted

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