drift

• be in motion due to some air or water current
• move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
• a force that moves something along
• the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane)
• a process of linguistic change over a period of time
• a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents
• a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
• the pervading meaning or tenor
• a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
• wander from a direct course or at random
• vary or move from a fixed point or course
• live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely
• move in an unhurried fashion
• cause to be carried by a current
• drive slowly and far afield for grazing
• be subject to fluctuation
• be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current
• A driving
• The act or motion of drifting
• Course or direction along which anything is driven
• The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like
• That which is driven, forced, or urged along
• Anything driven at random
• 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
• A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds
• The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments
• 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
• In South Africa, a ford in a river
• A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it
• A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework
• A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles
• A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft
• The distance through which a current flows in a given time
• The angle which the line of a ship´s motion makes with the meridian, in drifting
• The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes
• 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
• The distance between the two blocks of a tackle
• 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
• To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air
• To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind
• to make a drift
• To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body
• To drive into heaps
• To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift
• That causes drifting or that is drifted
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Germany in Nordrhein-Westfalen
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Germany in Schleswig-Holstein
• Residential area (city, town, village) in the United States of America (USA) in Kentucky

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