We found 63 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word drift:
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 General (29 matching dictionaries)
- drift: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
- drift: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- drift: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
- drift: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- Drift, drift: Wordnik [home, info]
- drift: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
- Drift: Wiktionary [home, info]
- drift: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
- drift: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- drift: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- drift: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- drift: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
- drift: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
- drift: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
- drift: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
- Drift (Doctor Who), Drift (album), Drift (geology), Drift (helio), Drift (linguistics), Drift (mining), Drift (plasma physics), Drift (railroad), Drift (telecommunication), Drift, The Drift: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
- drift: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
- Drift: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- drift: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- drift: Rhymezone [home, info]
- drift: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- drift: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
- Drift: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
- drift: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- drift: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
- drift: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
- drift: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
- drift: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
- drift: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]
Art (2 matching dictionaries)
- DRIFT: Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms [home, info]
- Drift: DAVID'S GLOSSARY OF THEATRE TERMS [home, info]
Business (4 matching dictionaries)
- Drift: AMEX Dictionary of Financial Risk Management [home, info]
- Drift: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]
- DRIFT: Investopedia [home, info]
- drift: Legal dictionary [home, info]
Computing (1 matching dictionary)
- Drift (mining), drift: Encyclopedia [home, info]
Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
- drift: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
- Drift: Orthodontic Terms [home, info]
- drift: online medical dictionary [home, info]
- drift: Medical dictionary [home, info]
Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
- DRIFT: Acronym Finder [home, info]
- The Drift, drift: Idioms [home, info]
Science (6 matching dictionaries)
- drift: Archaeology Wordsmith [home, info]
- Drift: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology [home, info]
- drift: Botanical Terms [home, info]
- drift: Evolution Glossary [home, info]
- drift: Anthropology dictionary [home, info]
Slang (1 matching dictionary)
- Drift: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang [home, info]
Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
- drift: Hickok Sports Glossaries [home, info]
- Drift: Sports Definitions [home, info]
- drift: Terra.org's Sailing Terms [home, info]
Tech (11 matching dictionaries)
- drift: Electronics [home, info]
- Drift: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
- Drift (coal): Glossary of Coal Mining Terms [home, info]
- drift: Glossary of Meteorology [home, info]
- DRIFT: Lake and Water Word Glossary [home, info]
- drift: Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary [home, info]
- Drift: Dictionary for Avionics [home, info]
- drift: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]
- Drift: Urban Conservation Glossary [home, info]
- Drift: Latitude Mexico [home, info]
- DRIFT: Power Engineering [home, info]
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Quick definitions (drift)
▸ noun: a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine ("They dug a drift parallel with the vein")
▸ noun: general meaning or tenor ("Caught the drift of the conversation")
▸ noun: a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
▸ noun: something that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents
▸ noun: a force that moves something along
▸ noun: the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane)
▸ noun: a process of linguistic change over a period of time
▸ verb: vary or move from a fixed point or course ("Stock prices are drifting higher")
▸ verb: be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current ("Snow drifting several feet high")
▸ verb: be subject to fluctuation ("The stock market drifted upward")
▸ verb: drive slowly and far afield for grazing ("Drift the cattle herds westwards")
▸ verb: cause to be carried by a current ("Drift the boats downstream")
▸ verb: move in an unhurried fashion ("The unknown young man drifted among the invited guests")
▸ verb: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment ("The laborers drift from one town to the next")
▸ verb: live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely ("My son drifted around for years in California before going to law school")
▸ verb: be in motion due to some air or water current ("The boat drifted on the lake")
▸ verb: wander from a direct course or at random ("Don't drift from the set course")
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