Word Finder - drifts

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(physical) Movement; that which moves or is moved.

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The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.

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A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.

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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.

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The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.

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(handiwork) A tool.

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A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.

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Minor deviation of audio or video playback from its correct speed.

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The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene.

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A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.

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Movement.

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A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.

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Slow, cumulative change.

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genetic drift

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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).

In these very hot drifts the fatality was large.

The second branch proceeds north-westwards towards the West Indies, where it mingles with the waters of the northern equatorial; and the two drifts, blocked by the

Sapphire is widely distributed through the gold-bearing drifts of Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, but the blue colour of the Australian stones is usually dark, and it is notable that green tints are not infrequent.

Iridosmine occurs commonly with gold or tin in alluvial drifts.

As the sinking of shafts or the driving of narrow entries or drifts is expensive, and as the mineral extracted rarely pays more than a small fraction of the cost, it is usual to plan this exploratory work so that the openings made shall serve some useful purpose later.

As soon as it appears reasonably certain that the property is workable the mine will be opened by one or more shafts, drifts or tunnels, and the underground passages for active mining operations will be started.

Drifts, entries and tunnels find their chief application in mining regions cut by deep valleys.

Drifts and inclined shafts following the deposit may prove difficult of maintenance when the workings become large and settlement of the overlying strata begins.

Natural ventilation is impracticable in flat deposits worked by drifts and without shafts.

The area is laid out by two pairs of level drifts, parallel to each other, about 150 yds.

We may gradually invent means of tracing more and more closely the average drifts of translation or orientation, or of changes of arrangement, of the atoms; but there will always remain an unaveraged residue devoid of any recognized regularity, which we can only estimate by its total amount.

This building, erected in the 15th century amid the barren dunes bordering the east shore of the estuary near its mouth, in place of a more ancient oratory, was long buried beneath drifts of sand.

The prevalence of south-west winds during nine months of the year and of north-west during three (April - June) has a strong influence on the temperature and rainfall, tides, river mouths and outlets, and also, geologically, on dunes and sand drifts, and on fens and the accumulation of clay on the coast.

But, whilst recognizing the existence of local drifts and systems, and admitting the possibility of relative motion between the nearer and more distant, or other classes of stars, it is;only recently that astronomers have seriously doubted the correctness of the hypothesis of random distribution of stellar motions as at least a rough representation of the truth.

These two streams or drifts prevail in every part of the sky examined, and contain nearly equal numbers of stars; that is to say, in whatever part of the sky we look about half the stars are found to belong to one and half to the other of the two great drifts.

It seems difficult to account for the very remarkable and unsymmetrical distribution of the motions, unless we suppose that the stars form two more or less separate systems superposed; and it has been found possible by assuming two drifts with suitably assigned velocities to account very satisfactorily for the observed motions.

Dyson has traced the presence of the two drifts in all parts of the sky.

The velocities of the drifts differ considerably, the one whose apex is in Ophiuchus having about 1 2 times the speed of the other.

We may conveniently distinguish the two drifts as the slow-moving and fast-moving drifts respectively; but it should be remembered that, since these motions are measured relatively to the sun, this distinction is not physically significant.

The stars appear to be nearly equally divided between the two drifts.

There is also clear evidence that the mean distances of both drifts from us are very approximately the same.

Having determined the motions of the two drifts, and knowing also that the stars are nearly equally divided between them, it is evidently possible to determine the mean motion of the drifts combined.

Now the position of this line, as found by Kobold, actually is a (properly weighted) mean between the corresponding lines of symmetry of the two drifts, but naturally it lies in the acute angle between them, whereas the line of the solar motion is also a weighted mean between the two lines of drift, but lies in the obtuse angle between them.

Again, there are chambers with drifts of snowy crystals of the sulphate of magnesia, the ceilings so thickly covered with their efflorescence that a loud concussion will cause them to fall like flakes of snow.

The western plains contain isolated ridges of the old Archean and Lower Palaeozoic rocks; but in the main, they consist of plains of Cretaceous beds covered by Cainozoic drifts.

Thereupon President Kruger arbitrarily closed the drifts (fords) on the Vaal river, and thus prevented through waggon traffic, causing an enormous block of waggons on the banks of the Vaal.

P. Schreiner was one, and a protest was then sent by Mr Chamberlain stating that the government would regard the closing of the drifts as a breach of the London Convention, and as an unfriendly action calling for the gravest remonstrance.

President Kruger at once reopened the drifts, and undertook that he would issue no further proclamation on the subject except after consultation with the imperial government.

In winter the gales often fill the streets to the depth of several feet, with drifts of sand from the surrounding dunes, which, however, are noted in summer for the dry and bracing air.

North of the equator the surface circulation is under the control of the monsoons, and changes with them, the currents consisting chiefly of north-east and south-west drifts in the open sea, and induced streams following the coasts.

A stroll around many of the UK gardens open to the public will reveal in the autumn, drifts of hardy cyclamen.

A blizzard had been raging over the Christmas period, and large snow drifts built up.

A part of the time-dependent variations observed in archaeomagnetic field models consists of episodic longitudinal drifts with a similar periodicity.

Around the lakes and streams, drifts of colorful primulas are starting to give several months of color.

In this presentation we will report the observation of drifts in the responsivity of cryogenically-cooled infrared filter radiometers which have very strong wavelength dependence.

These drifts can result in the increase or decrease of the response of the filter radiometers by over 5% .

Parts of the Pennines received a snowfall up to 15cm, while drifts up to 1.5m high were recorded.

These can produce large areas of color in the summer such as areas of pink thrift and drifts of purple Sea Lavender.

Other precious stones, including the sapphire, emerald, oriental emerald, ruby, opal, amethyst, garnet, chrysolite, topaz, cairngorm, onyx, zircon, &c., have been found in the gold and tin bearing drifts and river gravels in numerous localities throughout the states.

Again, the anti-Wagnerians were entirely justified in penetrating below the splendidly simple and original orchestration of the night-scene between Ortrud and Telramund, and pointing out how feebly its music drifts among a dozen vague keys by means of the diminished 7th; a device which teachers have tried to weed out of every highflown exercise since that otiose chord was first discovered in the 17th century.

Too often the brown, barren, sun-scorched ridges are obscured in the yellow dust haze which drifts upwards from the plains; too often the whole perspective of hill and vale is blotted out in the grey mists that sweep in soft, resistless columns against these southern slopes, to be condensed and precipitated in ceaseless, monotonous rainfall.

My earliest distinct recollection of my father is making my way through great drifts of newspapers to his side and finding him alone, holding a sheet of paper before his face.

High mounds, pyramids heaped in fantastic shapes, and impenetrable drifts lay scattered in every direction.

Narrow paths were shoveled through the drifts.

As the days wore on, the drifts gradually shrunk, but before they were wholly gone another storm came, so that I scarcely felt the earth under my feet once all winter.

Plunging through drifts, leaping hollows, swooping down upon the lake, we would shoot across its gleaming surface to the opposite bank.

It is frequently covered up by drifts, and, it is said, "sometimes plunges from on wing into the soft snow, where it remains concealed for a day or two."

These drifts can result in the increase or decrease of the response of the filter radiometers by over 5 %.

While the film does keep adults and kids relatively entertained, it also drifts into both lame slapstick and sappy sentimentality.

The electric slide guitar which drifts in and out gives the music a spacey feel.