drift
noun
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- Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
- 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.
- A tool used to pack down the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
- (mining) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery.
- The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
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- A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.
- Anything driven at random.
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drift
verb
/dɹɪft/
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- (intransitive) To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
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