Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of drift is as below...

Tunnel :: Tunnel (n. .) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; -- distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel..

Drift :: Drift (n.) 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..

Driftpiece :: Driftpiece (n.) An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail..

Strang :: Strand (v. i.) To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water..

Driftway :: Driftway (n.) A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle..

Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes..

Drift :: Drift (n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river..

Tone :: Tone (n.) Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory..

Driftless :: Driftless (a.) Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.

Wall :: Wall (n.) The side of a level or drift.

Drift :: Drift (n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.

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..

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..

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..

Preglacial :: Preglacial (a.) Prior to the glacial or drift period.

Anchorless :: Anchorless (a.) Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.

Jet :: "Jet (n.) Drift; scope; range, as of an argument..

Drift :: Drift (n.) A driving; a violent movement.

Drift :: Drift (n.) 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..

Drift :: Drift (a.) That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud..

Random Fonts

Most Popular