Word Finder - drifting

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To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.

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The balloon was drifting in the breeze.

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To move haphazardly without any destination.

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He drifted from town to town, never settling down.

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To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.

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This car tends to drift left at high speeds.

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To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.

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To drive into heaps.

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A current of wind drifts snow or sand

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To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.

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Snow or sand drifts.

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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.

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To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.

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To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See Drifting (motorsport).

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The act by which something drifts.

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That which drifts.

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A driving technique where the driver intentionally oversteers, causing loss of traction in the rear wheels, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner.

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Moving aimlessly or at the mercy of external forces.

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The drifting seaweed went wherever the currents carried it.

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Without direction, focus, or goal.

I feel like we're drifting apart here.

Alex nodded, his gaze drifting over her body.

Her mind kept drifting between Xander and the marks on her arm from one of Jonny's goons.

The loess was created by the drifting of fine sand and dust.

Cynthia asked as she snuggled even closer, the earlier troubles of the day drifting even further away.

End of conversation but it was nice to see things drifting back toward normal.

They were drifting away from the subject.

The balmy morning breeze drifting in from the small window was fragrant with the scents of the ocean and bread from the Sanctuary's kitchens.

They glided past snow-covered fields and occasional farmhouses, drifting smoke from their chimneys skyward and adding a hint of wood smoke to the crisp winter air.

Xander's face faded in and out of focus, and his thoughts kept drifting away.

Hadn't she been drifting from Josh for the last few months - before she knew anything about Alex?

The Hungarian diet frantically opposed every Austrian alliance as endangering the national independence, but to any unprejudiced observer a union with the house of Habsburg, even with the contingent probability of a Habsburg king, was infinitely preferable to the condition into which Hungary, under native aristocratic misrule, was swiftly drifting.

The surface is generally hard, but in many places there are large accumulations of drifting sea-sand.

He had to face the dominant fact of the situation - the aggressive pressure of Germany at a time when Russia was drifting into an internal crisis of the first magnitude and was unable to concentrate the material and moral forces required in the coming conflict.

The differences of salinity support this method, and, especially in the northern European seas, often prove a sharper criterion of the boundaries than temperature itself; this is especially the case at the entrance to the Baltic. Evidence drawn from drift-wood, wrecks or special drift bottles is less distinct but still interesting and often useful; this method of investigation includes the use of icebergs as indicators of the trend of currents and also of plankton, the minute swimming or drifting organisms so abundant at the surface of the sea.

For Austria, Bavaria and the great ecclesiastical states in the south definitely sided with the pope against Luther's heresies, and to this day they still remain Roman Catholic. In the north, on the other hand, it became more and more apparent that the princes were drifting away from the Roman Catholic Church.

It is supplied by the tidaland wind-formed currents, which are drifting sand from the Long Island and New Jersey coasts, extending the barrier beaches, such as Sandy Hook, out across the entrance to New York Bay.

He was drifting about with no higher aim than a " hand-to-mouth " policy, whilst the Holy See could feel the superiority with which the consciousness of centuries of tradition had endowed it, and took full advantage of the mistakes of its opponent.

Thus it is possible to speak of a snow-drift, an accumlation driven by the wind; of a ship drifting out of its course; of the drift of a speech, i.e.

On May 6 1915 the " Aurora," which had been frozen in and made fast by many cables to the shore at Cape Evans, was blown out to sea with all the ice and was held fast for 315 days, during which time she drifted northward through Ross Sea nearly in the same direction and at nearly the same rate as the " Endurance " was drifting at the same time in the Weddell Sea.

He thus gave much trouble to men like Serrano, Topete and Prim, who had never harboured the idea of drifting into advanced democracy, and who had each his own scheme for re-establishing the monarchy with certain constitutional restrictions.

This shows how large a proportion of the vapour is arrested and how it is that only by drifting through the deeper gorges can any moisture find its way to the Tibetan table-land.

Of the various traditions that were current among the ancient Greeks regarding the origin of Delos, the most popular describes it as drifting through the Aegean till moored by Zeus as a refuge for the wandering Leto.

China was in his eyes drifting from its ancient moorings, drifting on a sea of storms " to hideous ruin and combustion "; and the expedient that occurred to him to arrest the evil was to gather up and preserve the records of antiquity, illustrating and commending them by his own teachings.

The Graptoloidea have also been regarded by some as benthonic organisms. A more prevalent view, however, is that the majority were pseudo-planktonic or drifting colonies, hanging from the underside of floating seaweeds; their polyparies being each .suspended by the nema in the earliest stages of growth, and, in later stages, some by the nemacaulus, while others became adherent above by means of a central disk or by parts of their dorsal walls.

For Gladstone, in framing his budget, had contemplated a continuance of peace, and the country was, unhappily, already drifting into war.

On the west and south coasts of Sweden, and in the Skagerrak south-east of Norway, navigation is interfered with by ice only in severe winters, and then the ice is usually drifting, compact sea-ice being very rare.

All of the potential candidates with the opportunity to steal the bone were rapidly drifting away.

With the memories of a better time drifting through his mind were memories of a war brewing between Others and Watchers that ultimately ended in the Schism, the severing of the mortal and immortal worlds.

The group has always been involved in the development of drifting buoys.

A few contrails forming cirrus drifting from the NE otherwise wall-to-wall sunshine, Valley reported { 12h }, the most in the UK.

The book bounced worryingly, before falling safely to rest on the drifting dinghy.

These issues are linked by a drifting duplicity at the heart of government.

Do such areas exhibit features of socially mobile neighborhoods or do they show signs of drifting toward poverty ghetto conditions?

Women drifting down the slope of middle age dig in their kitten heels.

At the bridge we found lots of Red necked phalaropes drifting on the stream feeding.

I'm driving into gently falling snowflakes that are drifting slowly toward me, emerging from gray gloom into the brightness of my headlights.

In the background, the Liberator's scanners have detected a 700 year old Earth ' Wanderer ' class spaceship drifting toward the planet.

Down by the shore we look to Fife, see the first black streamers of snow drifting between cloud and sea.

Several effects including a fantastic silver strobe effect that leaves long drifting tentacles in this long exposure shot.

The bluesy tonality of this haunting song created a decidedly late-night feel, as did the gently drifting melody.

These phrases pile up almost to excess, like petals drifting off a cherry tree in spring.

A Kirkwall lifeboat crewman was injured during a rescue operation which saw a cargo vessel drifting out of control in Kirkwall Bay.

There has been very little drifting and not much in the way of riming on the rocks tho they were definitely wintry looking.

As to the loess, the usual view is that it was a steppe-deposit due to the drifting of fine sand and dust during a dry episode in the Pleistocene period.

Such changes as occur come about, not in consequence of a new direction taken by conscious policy, but rather in the way that fashions in dress alter amongst ourselves, by subconscious, hardly purposive drifting.

Tears streamed from his eyes, drifting backward through the slipstream created by his wings like a rain of sadness trailing through the sky.

I 'm driving into gently falling snowflakes that are drifting slowly toward me, emerging from gray gloom into the brightness of my headlights.

In the background, the Liberator 's scanners have detected a 700 year old Earth ' Wanderer ' class spaceship drifting toward the planet.

Despite their underslung mouths, they are quite capable of feeding upon drifting prey, which they tip up to capture.