| Drift (drift) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Drift |
| [From drive; akin
to LG. *** D. drift a driving, Icel. drift snowdrift,
Dan. drift, impulse, drove, herd, pasture, common, G.
trift pasturage, drove. See Drive.] |
A driving] a violent movement.
The act or motion of drifting; the force
which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or
impulse.
Course or direction along which anything
is driven; setting.
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.
That which is driven, forced, or urged
along
The horizontal thrust or
pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
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 agency of ice.
In South Africa, a ford in a
river.
A slightly tapered tool of
steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or
driven into or through it; a broach.
A tool
used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket,
or like firework.
A passage driven or cut
between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an
adit or tunnel.
The
distance through which a current flows in a given time.
The difference between the size of a bolt
and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of
a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
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To float or be driven along
by, or as by, a current of water or air] as, the ship drifted
astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts
slowly east.
To accumulate in heaps by the force of
wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand
drifts.
to make a drift; to
examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence
of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
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| Drift (drift) |
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| v. t. | (?) |
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| Drift |
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To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind
drifts snow or sand.
To enlarge or shape, as a
hole, with a drift.
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That causes drifting or
that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift
currents; drift ice; drift mud.
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One of the slower movements of oceanic circulation; a
general tendency of the water, subject to occasional or frequent
diversion or reversal by the wind; as, the easterly drift of
the North Pacific.
The horizontal
component of the pressure of the air on the sustaining surfaces of a
flying machine. The lift is the corresponding vertical
component, which sustains the machine in the air.
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