Definition of drift

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Drift (n.) The distance through which a current flows in a given time.

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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..
Drift :: Drift (n.) A driving; a violent movement.
Turn :: Turn (n.) A pit sunk in some part of a drift.
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.) 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..
Drift :: Drift (n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
Torpedo :: Torpedo (n.) A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore..
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift..
Driftweed :: Driftweed (n.) Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.
Drift :: Drift (n.) That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
Heading :: Heading (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift..
Eschar :: Eschar (n.) In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams..
Driftage :: Driftage (n.) Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.
Streamed :: Stream (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners..
Club :: Club (v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts..
Drifted :: Drifted (imp. & p. p.) of Drif.
Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
Drift :: Drift (n.) A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles..
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