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The synonyms of “Drift” are: freewheel, be adrift, blow, float, cast, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander, err, be carried, be carried along, be carried away, be borne, be wafted, digress, depart, diverge, veer, swerve, deviate, get sidetracked, pile up, bank up, heap up, accumulate, gather, form drifts, form heaps, amass, purport, impetus, impulsion, movement, trend, gallery, heading, shift, flow, transfer, transferral, relocation, gravitation, deviation, digression, veering, straying, gist, essence, core, meaning, sense, thesis, substance, significance, signification, pile, heap, bank, mound, mass, accumulation, dune, ridge, crossing place, crossing, causeway
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “drift” as a noun can have the following definitions:
accumulation | Profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation. The accumulation of wealth. |
bank | An elevation in the seabed or a riverbed a mudbank or sandbank. He cashed a check at the bank. |
causeway | A raised road or track across low or wet ground. An island reached at low tide by a causeway. |
core | An organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality. The plan has the interests of children at its core. |
crossing | The action of crossing something. The crossing of the Pennines. |
crossing place | A voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean. |
deviation | The error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances. Deviation from a norm. |
digression | A message that departs from the main subject. A digression into irrelevant details. |
dune | A ridge of sand created by the wind; found in deserts or near lakes and oceans. A sand dune. |
essence | An extract or concentrate obtained from a plant or other matter and used for flavouring or scent. Vanilla essence. |
flow | The act of flowing or streaming continuous progression. A constant flow of people. |
gallery | A group of spectators, especially those at a golf tournament. Shooting gallery. |
gist | The real point of an action. It was hard to get the gist of Pedro s talk. |
gravitation | The force responsible for gravitation gravity. Irrigation by gravitation rather than by pumps. |
heading | A direction or bearing. Chapter headings. |
heap | A collection of objects laid on top of each other. Her clothes lay in a heap on the floor. |
impetus | A force that moves something along. The ending of the Cold War gave new impetus to idealism. |
impulsion | A strong urge to do something. The impulsion of the singers to govern the pace. |
mass | An ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people. We get masses of homework. |
meaning | The idea that is intended. What is the meaning of this sentence. |
mound | A small hill. They have a southpaw on the mound. |
movement | A campaign undertaken by a political social or artistic movement. The movement to end slavery. |
pile | A large amount of something. For uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction. |
purport | The purpose or intention of something. I do not understand the purport of your remarks. |
relocation | The act of changing your residence or place of business. The planned relocation of national headquarters to Warwickshire. |
ridge | An elongated region of high barometric pressure. The roof was unusual due to the relative heights of the eaves and the ridge. |
sense | Relating to or denoting a coding sequence of nucleotides complementary to an antisense sequence. I can t see the sense in leaving all the work to you. |
shift | The group of people who work during a particular shift. A shift in public opinion. |
significance | The extent to which a result deviates from that expected to arise simply from random variation or errors in sampling. Do not underestimate the significance of nuclear power. |
signification | The representation or conveying of meaning. Many words acquired a signification coloured by legal construction. |
straying | An animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal. |
substance | The subject matter of a text, speech, or work of art, especially as contrasted with the form or style in which it is presented. A steel tube coated with a waxy substance. |
thesis | A statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved. A doctoral thesis. |
transfer | The act of transfering something from one form to another. Data transfer between different manufacturers drives. |
transferral | The action of transferring someone or something. The transferral of ownership in the form of a takeover. |
trend | General line of orientation. For more than 20 days in a row most of the top Twitter trends were Olympics related. |
veering | The act of turning aside suddenly. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “drift” as a verb can have the following definitions:
accumulate | Gather; build up. Investigators have yet to accumulate enough evidence. |
amass | Gather together in a crowd or group. He amassed a fortune estimated at close to a million pounds. |
bank up | Do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank. |
be adrift | Work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function. |
be borne | Work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function. |
be carried | Spend or use time. |
be carried along | Be identical or equivalent to. |
be carried away | Be identical to; be someone or something. |
be wafted | Form or compose. |
blow | Of a whale eject air and vapour through the blowhole. The blast had blown the windows out of the van. |
cast | Form by pouring e g wax or hot metal into a cast or mold. The moon cast a pale light over the cottages. |
depart | Wander from a direct or straight course. The train departs at noon. |
deviate | Cause to turn away from a previous or expected course. You must not deviate from the agreed route. |
digress | Lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking. I have digressed a little from my original plan. |
diverge | Have no limits as a mathematical series. Suddenly he diverged from his text. |
err | Be mistaken or incorrect; make a mistake. He has erred and strayed as many of us have. |
float | Be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom. Float data. |
form drifts | Create (as an entity. |
form heaps | Create (as an entity. |
freewheel | Coast in a vehicle using the freewheel. She was convinced that she saved a lot of petrol money by turning the engine off and freewheeling down the hill. |
gather | Collect or gather. The car gathers speed. |
get sidetracked | Suffer from the receipt of. |
heap up | Fill to overflow. |
pile up | Place or lay as if in a pile. |
ramble | Continue talking or writing in a desultory manner. This novel rambles on and jogs. |
range | Place or arrange in a row or rows or in a specified manner. Tribes who ranged the windswept lands of the steppe. |
roam | Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment. He let his eyes roam her face. |
roll | Flatten or spread with a roller. Pat rolled the trolley to and fro. |
rove | (of a person’s eyes) look in changing directions in order to see something thoroughly. The policeman s eyes roved around the pub. |
stray | Lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking. Dog owners are urged not to allow their dogs to stray. |
swan | Move about or go somewhere in a casual, irresponsible, or ostentatious way. Airplanes were swanning over the mountains. |
swerve | Change or cause to change direction abruptly. A lorry swerved across her path. |
vagabond | Wander about as or like a vagabond. He went vagabonding about the world. |
veer | (of the wind) change direction clockwise around the points of the compass. The wind veered. |
wander | To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course. Her mind wanders. |
adrift | Floating freely; not anchored. The film industry was adrift in a sea of debt. |
aimlessly | Without purpose or direction. We wandered aimlessly round Venice. |
continental | A member of the Continental Army. Continental waters. |
digress | Leave the main subject temporarily in speech or writing. She always digresses when telling a story. |
float | Allow a currency to float. The dancer floated across the stage. |
floating | Inclined to move or be moved about. A floating platform. |
flotsam | People or things that have been rejected or discarded as worthless. The room was cleared of boxes and other flotsam. |
freewheel | Coast in a vehicle using the freewheel. I m not the sort of person who would freewheel his way to the end of a contract. |
gad | A sharp prod fixed to a rider’s heel and used to urge a horse onward. He had heard that I was gadding about with an airline stewardess. |
gallivant | Wander aimlessly in search of pleasure. She quit her job to go gallivanting around the globe. |
migration | Movement from one part of something to another. This butterfly s annual migration across North America. |
nomadic | Living the life of a nomad; wandering. Nomadic herdsmen. |
peripatetic | (of a teacher) working in more than one school or college. Peripatetic country preachers. |
plod | A slow, heavy walk. Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone. |
ramble | A walk taken for pleasure in the countryside. Roses climbed rambled hung over walls. |
rambling | (of writing or speech) lengthy and confused or inconsequential. A rambling club. |
roam | An aimless walk. He let his mind roam as he walked. |
rove | (of a person’s eyes) look in changing directions in order to see something thoroughly. The policeman s eyes roved around the pub. |
roving | Migratory. He trained as a roving reporter. |
southward | Towards the south. The village stretches southwards across the plain. |
stray | An animal that has strayed especially a domestic animal. A few stray crumbs. |
trudge | A difficult or laborious walk. He began the long trudge back to Stokenchurch Street. |
undirected | Lacking direction; without a particular aim, purpose, or target. She was full of ineffectual undirected anger. |
vagabond | Wander about as or like a vagabond. He went vagabonding about the world. |
vagrant | Relating to or living the life of a vagrant. The vagrant heart of my mother. |
wander | An act or instance of wandering. She d go on wanders like that in her nightgown. |
wanderer | A person who travels aimlessly. He is a longtime seaman a rootless wanderer. |
wandering | Having no fixed course. His life followed a wandering course. |
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