drift

Related to drift: Drift velocity, drift current
See:
  • catch (one's) drift
  • catch the drift
  • catch/get somebody's/the drift
  • Churchillian Drift
  • Do you get my drift?
  • drift along
  • drift apart
  • drift away
  • drift back
  • drift in
  • drift in(to) (something)
  • drift off
  • drift off to sleep
  • drift out
  • drift toward
  • drift toward (someone or something)
  • drift with
  • drift with (something)
  • drift with the tide
  • get (one's) drift
  • get drift
  • Get my drift?
  • get the drift
  • get the drift of
  • get the drift of (something)
  • if you catch my drift
  • if you get my drift
  • lose the drift (of something)
  • lose the drift/thread of something
  • off course
References in classic literature
There is no need of going into an extended recital of our suffering in the small boat during the many days we were driven and drifted, here and there, willy-nilly, across the ocean.
It penetrated deep into the land, and the tide, setting in, drifted us under the shelter of the point.
The Sea Wolf
The flat drifted under the bridge and then promptly sank in midstream.
Anne Of Green Gables
So he drifted back to his wild young days, and spun many a rare yarn for me, while we downed beer, treat by treat, all through a blessed summer afternoon.
John Barleycorn
For a long time I drifted, so painful and weary was I after the violence I had been through, and so intense the heat upon the water.
War Of The Worlds
It could not have been more than a few seconds that I lay senseless there upon the northern ice, while all that was dearest to me drifted farther from my reach in the clutches of that black fiend, for when I opened my eyes Thurid and Matai Shang yet battled at the ladder's top, and the flier drifted but a hundred yards farther to the south--but the end of the trailing rope was now a good thirty feet above the ground.
Should Matai Shang die before I reached the deck my chances of ever reaching it would be slender indeed, for the black dator need but cut the rope above me to be freed from me forever, for the vessel had drifted across the brink of a chasm into whose yawning depths my body would drop to be crushed to a shapeless pulp should Thurid reach the rope now.
Warlord of Mars
There was his handkerchief on the floor, to prove that he had drifted in.
The Moonstone
Speaking at the drift on Tuesday, resident John Yaa said the construction of the drifts was shoddy which made heavy rains weaken them.
Kaloleni residents want killer drifts repaired
The first Red Bull Car Park Drift Qualifier was held in Oman in 2010 and since then, the competition has only become bigger with more participants, more spectators and more challenging tracks.
Top drifters gear up for coveted 'King of Drift' title
One of the techniques to reduce drift is the selection of spray nozzles, mainly because of the size of droplets (Costa et al., 2012).
Potential risk of drift from inclined fan nozzles/Potencial risco de deriva de pontas de pulverizacao de jato plano inclinado
For fishing, my favorites are the smaller drift boats out of Palm Beach Inlet.
Dinner at the Drift-Through: IT'S LIKELY FLORIDA'S MOST CONVENIENT SEAFOOD TAKEOUT
Those who would like to experience the drag or drift as a passenger can get into a friend's car for an additional BD4.
Kanoo Drag and Drift Night takes centre stage at BIC
It then became its own sport, rather than just a technique after a drift video by Keiichi Tsuchiya became a hit.
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