1. drift - Noun
2. drift - Adjective
3. drift - Verb
A driving; a violent movement.
The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
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.
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; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like.
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 broach.
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; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
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 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; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east.
To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts.
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.
To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand.
To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. Warren Buffett
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. Albert Einstein
Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world. George Steiner
Let the past drift away with the water. Japanese Proverb
A boat that is not tied up will drift along with the stream. Japanese Proverb
Better an even down snaw than a driving drift. Scottish Proverb