EGAVE

drift

About 8.28 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Movement; that which moves or is moved. Anything driven at random. 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.
    a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, of plants, etc.
  2. noun Anything driven at random.
  3. noun 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.
    a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, of plants, etc.
  4. noun The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
  5. noun The animals being moved in a drive, as of cattle, goats, horses, pigs or sheep.
  6. noun A group of birds moving together.
  7. noun A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the retreat of continental glaciers, such as that which buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys.
  8. noun A collection of logs floating down a river.

Similar words

rove waft freewheel range ramble cast blow float wander roam

Often followed by

of and in into to away is velocity toward

Word family

drifted driftier driftiest drifting driftingly drifts drifty

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