Word Finder - drift

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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).

She couldn't let this moment drift by.

I hope we never drift apart that way again.

The Middle Drift is 36 m.

She sat down, leaning her back against the tree, and watched shadows from puffy clouds drift across the surface.

He wanted to let his hand drift downwards but stopped himself.

Before she started to drift into an in-between place, she saw Darian stand and look around, awake for the first time in thousands of years.

On the 22nd of January the centre column (1600 Europeans, 2500 natives), which had advanced from Rorke's Drift, was encamped near Isandhlwana; on the morning of Isandhl- that day Lord Chelmsford moved out with a small wane force to support a reconnoitring party.

In the other parts of the state the soil is composed mainly of glacial drift, and is generally deep and fertile.

The non-arable north-east portion of the state is covered with a coarse granite drift.

Helland-Hansen and Nansen showed later that it was improbable that variations in the northerly drift of Atlantic water could be traced directly to variations in the quantity of heat received by the sea from solar radiation.

It splits into two parts east of the Philippines, one division flowing northwards as the Kuro Siwo or Black Stream, the analogue of the Gulf Stream, to feed a drift circulation which follows the winds of the North Pacific, and finally forms the Californian Current flowing southwards along the American coast.

The soil is for the most part glacial drift, composed of clay, sand and gravel, and varying greatly in depth.

The part of this atmospheric circulation which is steadiest in its action is the trade winds, and this is, therefore, the most effective in producing drift movement of the surface waters.

The movements of the northern branch of the Gulf Stream drift have been the object of more careful and more extended study than all the other currents of the ocean put together, except, perhaps, the Gulf Stream itself.

On the polar side of the high-pressure area a west wind drift is under the control of the " roaring forties," and on reaching South Africa part of this is deflected and sent northwards along the west coast as the cold Benguella current which rejoins the equatorial.

Laptyev sailed, but was stopped by the drift ice in August, and in 1739, during another trial, he reached the mouth of the Indigirka, where he wintered.

Well-worn pebbles of amorphous quartz (agate, chalcedony, jasper, &c.) are found in the stratified drift along the western side of the Tertiary region of the state, and from Columbus northward.

Those that flow directly into the lake are short, but some of the rivers of this region, such as the Cuyahoga and the'Grand, are turned by drift ridges into circuitous courses and flow through narrow valleys with numerous falls and rapids.

North of the lower course of the Maumee river is a belt of sand, but Ohio drift generally contains a large mixture of clay.

The bottom water is relatively rich in these substances as well as in decaying organic matter, and would become progressively richer but for the slow drift towards the equator and the welling-up of bottom water to the surface in these latitudes.

Experiments with annealed iron gave less satisfactory results, on account of the slowness with which the metal settled down into a new magnetic state, thus causing a " drift " of the magnetometer needle, which sometimes persisted for several seconds.

The warm Mozambique current sweeps down from the N.E., setting up a back drift close in shore.

The mounted troops Kop. engaged a Boer force north-west of the point of Spion passage, but were brought back to take part in a general right wheel of the forces of the Tugela, pivoting on Trichardt's Drift.

Rorke's Drift, 48 m., also in a direct line, above the Middle Drift, is a crossing of the Buffalo river a little above the Tugela confluence.

A railway, completed in 1904, which begins at Durban and crosses into Zululand by a bridge over the Tugela near the Lower Drift, runs along the coast belt over nearly level country to the St Lucia coal-fields in Hlabisa magistracy-167 m.

After the victory at Isandhlwana several impis of the Zulu army had Rorke's moved to the Drift.

The 1st division, under major-general Crealock, advanced along the coast belt and was destined to act as a support to the 2nd division, under major-general Newdigate, which with Wood's flying column, an independent unit, was to march on Ulundi from Rorke's Drift and Kambula.

In this case the advanced drift is run underneath the pillar, and the ground below is mined in descending steps.

There are transported or drift soils, the particles of which have been brought from other areas and deposited over the rocks below.

A drift or entry is a horizontal passageway starting from the outcrop and following the deposit.

A tunnel differs from a drift in that it is driven across the strata to intersect the deposit.

A mine should always be opened by drift or entry if practicable, as thereby the expense of hoisting and pumping is avoided.

In the morning the Tehama, as seen from the mountain tops, appears buried in a sea of white cloud; towards noon the clouds drift up the mountain slopes and cover the summits with wreaths of light mist charged with moisture which condenses on the trees and vegetation; in the afternoon they disappear, and the evenings are generally clear and still.

Over the whole state there is a layer of drift deposited by the glaciers which once covered this region.

This glacial material is in the form of a till or boulder clay, but in the lowlands, and especially along Narragansett Bay, it is generally overlaid by stratified drift deposited by glacial streams. Within Narragansett Bay are the numerous islands characteristic of an area which has suffered comparatively recent depression, the largest being Rhode Island (or Aquidneck), Conanicut Island and Prudence Island.

Slates and fine-grained sandstones appear here freely through the glacial drift.

Thus, about noon on the r 6th he reached the high ground between St Privat and Amanvillers, and still without instructions he determined to direct his corps on Bruville and Doncourt, whence he could judge from the drift of the smokeclouds whether he could fall on the Prussian left.

Volcanic dust thrown into the air settles out slowly, and some of the products of submarine and littoral volcanoes, like pumice-stone, possess a remarkable power of floating and may drift into any part of the ocean before they become waterlogged and sink.

The usual form of ventilating furnace is a plain fire grate placed under an arch, and communicating with the upcast shaft by an inclined drift.

To overcome drift the axis must be pointed to the left of the target, and the amount will increase with the range.

Disadvantages of earlier patterns were, the telescope was inverting, the drum was not graduated in yards, and drift not allowed for.

Howitzer sights are vertical and do not allow for drift; they are graduated in degrees only.

The sights themselves fit into sockets cut at the proper angle for drift, and are raised in their sockets the requisite amount for the range by means of a small hand-wheel; they are thus non-recoiling sights.

The Caledon, from its source in Mont aux Sources to Jammerberg Drift near Wepener, forms the boundary of the province, the southern bank being in Basutoland; below Wepener the land on both sides of the Caledon is in the province.

West of the Missouri river the sheet of glacial drift is absent, and the lands everywhere show evidence of extensive stream erosion.

The glacial drift east of the Missouri river, unlike that of the New England states, is remarkably free from boulders and gravel, except in a few morainic belts.

West of the Missouri river the drift gives place to a fine soil of sand aid clay, with deposits of alluvium in the vicinity of streams. Though lacking in vegetable mould, these soils are generally capable of producing good crops where the water-supply is sufficient.

The prairies in this second table-land are gently rolling, and are covered with drift from the continental ice-sheet of the glacial period.

East of the Missouri river this region is covered with glacial drift, and is noticeably different from the more level lands of the lower plains.

The morainic belts and other obstructions in the drift plains hem in the waters in the intervening basins and create what are called " glacial lakes," var y ing in diameter from a few yards to several miles.