Definition of drift

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Drift (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..

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Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand..
Broach :: Broach (n.) A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift..
Intent :: Intent (n.) The act of turning the mind toward an object; hence, a design; a purpose; intention; meaning; drift; aim..
Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts..
Float :: Float (n.) To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air..
Driving :: Driving (n.) Tendency; drift.
Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.
Drift :: Drift (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..
Drift :: Drift (a.) That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud..
Level :: Level (n.) A horizontal passage, drift, or adit, in a mine..
Driftweed :: Driftweed (n.) Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.
Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Anything that drifts.
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
Tenor :: Tenor (n.) That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
Drift :: Drift (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..
Score :: Score (n.) To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch..
Strang :: Strand (v. i.) To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water..
Drifty :: Drifty (a.) Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like..
Drift :: Drift (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..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
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