Drift

What do we mean by drift?

To be carried along by currents of air or water. intransitive verb

To proceed or move unhurriedly or aimlessly. intransitive verb

To live or behave without a clear purpose or goal. intransitive verb

To have no continuing focus; stray. intransitive verb

To vary from or oscillate randomly about a fixed setting, position, or mode of operation. intransitive verb

To be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of a current. intransitive verb

To cause to be carried in a current. intransitive verb

To pile up in banks or heaps. intransitive verb

To drive (livestock) slowly or far afield, especially for grazing. intransitive verb

Something moving along in a current of air or water. noun

A bank or pile, as of sand or snow, heaped up by currents of air or water. noun

Rock debris transported and deposited by or from ice, especially by or from a glacier. noun

A general trend or tendency, as of opinion. synonym: tendency. noun

General meaning or purport; tenor. noun

A gradual change in position. noun

A gradual deviation from an original course, model, method, or intention. noun

Variation or random oscillation about a fixed setting, position, or mode of behavior. noun

A gradual change in the output of a circuit or amplifier. noun

(physical) Movement; that which moves or is moved.

The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.

A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.

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.

The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.

(handiwork) A tool.

A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.

Minor deviation of audio or video playback from its correct speed.

The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene.

A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.

Movement.

A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.

Slow, cumulative change.

Words that are spelled similarly to drift:
drift, draft, rift, adrift, grift, dript, dreft, dift, drit, drif, dritt, drft.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word drift:
alluvium, drifting, tectonics, allele, bedrock, alleles, zulu, currents, nets, velocity, glacial, colliery, diffusion, sediment, detector, mutation, electrons, gravel, geology, genetic, sonic, apart, sandstone, sand, mobility, downstream, evolutionary, sight, ion, till, neutral, deposits, measurements, mine, drag, watershed, electron, random, evolution, ice, hypothesis, selection, variation, tube, wind, coal, mines, toward, waves, particles, frequency, ocean, rally, magnetic, equation, slowly, angle, plate, stream, away, towards, error, mining, net, shift, continental, driven, motion, reaches.

Words that rhyme with drift:
shift, lift, gift, swift, rift, sift, makeshift, adrift, miffed, shrift, thrift, spendthrift, facelift, forklift, airlift, clift, shoplift, short shrift, tift, night shift, graveyard shift, stiffed, sniffed, face lift, birthday gift, day shift, stick shift, whiffed, biffed, riffed, chimney swift, swing shift, chair lift, jonathan swift, ski lift, tiffed, boatlift, work shift, sealift, split shift, be adrift, doppler shift, evening shift, european swift, philanthropic gift, christmas gift, tree swift, population shift, wedding gift, crested swift, seadrift, fork-lift, aerolift, credithrift, tifft.

Adjectives that are often used to describe drift:
continental, genetic, glacial, general, random, slow, main, whole, steady, littoral, downward, longshore, antigenic, upward, stratified, gradual, low, term, urban, current, wind, mesial, deep, heavy, net, slight, ulnar, cultural, thermal, dead, constant, older, lateral, inevitable, leftward, rightward, kansan, northern, rapid, apparent, dangerous, illinoian, snow, thick, secular, spontaneous, overall, west, continuous, aimless, linear, academic, excessive, lowan, sand, huge, semantic, unstratified, instrumental, induced.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective drift:
wood, ice, weed, timber, diffusion, nets, boats, sand, tube, deposits, fishing, bolts, period, mining, implements, bottle, flux, beds, field, gravels, pin, net, gravel, angle, free, indicator, stages, fence, mobility, velocity, hills, scale, correction, coming, netting, zones, see, folk, feeding, lead, bolt, bottles, wave, land, sight, down, lines, cone.

Consonant match to drift:
draft, draught.

Words that sound like drift:
drift, draft, draught, adrift, drifter, drifts, drit, drifty, dift, drif, dirft, drft, dritt, druif, troughed, deft, drat, duft, duffed, dft, dref, drought, daft, dripped, drafts, drafter, drafty, draftee, draughts, droit, doffed, drid, doft, draf, draff, drewett, droite, dript, dry heat, dyfed, drott, thrift, shrift, trit, tift, tritt, turfed, tiffed, schrift, dread, dressed, direct, dred, dredd, drest, dfh, directe, direkt, dirt, defeat, defy, drifting, droid, dried, def, drifted, diff, dit, derived, draped, drilled, dif, delft, drifters, driv, defoe, dreed, derf, dert, drood, drad, defat, day shift, dorrit, dayshift, derivate, defi, ditt, diffee, deriv, ditte, dradde, draw out, drish, drift off, drf, drift ice, diffa, difa, driftage.