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General dictionaries General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. drift: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. drift: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. drift: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  4. drift: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  5. Drift, drift: Wordnik [home, info]
  6. drift: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  7. Drift: Wiktionary [home, info]
  8. drift: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  9. drift: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  10. drift: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  11. drift: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  12. drift: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  13. drift: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  14. drift: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  15. drift: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  16. 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]
  17. drift: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
  18. Drift: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  19. drift: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  20. drift: Rhymezone [home, info]
  21. drift: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  22. drift: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  23. Drift: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
  24. drift: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  25. drift: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  26. drift: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  27. drift: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  28. drift: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  29. drift: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DRIFT: Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms [home, info]
  2. Drift: DAVID'S GLOSSARY OF THEATRE TERMS [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drift: AMEX Dictionary of Financial Risk Management [home, info]
  2. Drift: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]
  3. DRIFT: Investopedia [home, info]
  4. drift: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Drift (mining), drift: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. drift: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  2. Drift: Orthodontic Terms [home, info]
  3. drift: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  4. drift: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DRIFT: Acronym Finder [home, info]
  2. The Drift, drift: Idioms [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. drift: Archaeology Wordsmith [home, info]
  2. Drift: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology [home, info]
  3. drift: Botanical Terms [home, info]
  4. drift: Evolution Glossary [home, info]
  5. drift: Anthropology dictionary [home, info]

Slang dictionaries Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Drift: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang [home, info]

Sports dictionaries Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. drift: Hickok Sports Glossaries [home, info]
  2. Drift: Sports Definitions [home, info]
  3. drift: Terra.org's Sailing Terms [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. drift: Electronics [home, info]
  2. Drift: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
  3. Drift (coal): Glossary of Coal Mining Terms [home, info]
  4. drift: Glossary of Meteorology [home, info]
  5. DRIFT: Lake and Water Word Glossary [home, info]
  6. drift: Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary [home, info]
  7. Drift: Dictionary for Avionics [home, info]
  8. drift: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]
  9. Drift: Urban Conservation Glossary [home, info]
  10. Drift: Latitude Mexico [home, info]
  11. DRIFT: Power Engineering [home, info]

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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