drift

Betekenis (Engels)

1. Movement; that which moves or is moved.
2. Movement; that which moves or is moved.
3. Movement; that which moves or is moved.
4. Movement; that which moves or is moved.
5. Movement; that which moves or is moved.
6. Movement; that which moves or is moved.
7. (obsolete) Movement; that which moves or is moved.
8. Movement; that which moves or is moved.
9. Movement; that which moves or is moved.
10. The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
11. A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
12. 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.
13. The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
14. A tool.
15. A tool.
16. A tool.
17. A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to obloid projectiles.
18. Minor deviation of audio or video playback from its correct speed.
19. The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene.
20. A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery.
21. An adit or tunnel driven forward for purposes of exploration or exploitation; generally eventually to a dead end.
22. A sloping winze or road to the surface, for purposes of haulage.
23. In a coal mine, a heading driven for exploration or ventilation.
24. Of a boring or a driven tunnel: deviation from the intended course.
25. A heading driven through a seam of coal.
26. Movement.
27. Movement.
28. Movement.
29. Movement.
30. Movement.
31. A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
32. Slow, cumulative change.
33. In New Forest National Park, UK, the bi-annual round-up of wild ponies in order to be sold.

float

be adrift

wander aimlessly

move gently

swim across

roam about

be scattered

float along

float away

kick about

kick around

mill about

wander about

wander around

diluvium

displase

migration

go downstream

move smoothly

be without aim

follow the wind

have no aim

have no purpose

slip along

murmuration

pile engine

drift current

wind drift

stellar group

float along to pass

hirsel

cete

wind-driven current

deviation dispersion

horizontal workings

conceit

erst

Frekwensie

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/dɹɪft/

Verwante met Noord-Fries

Verwante met Saterfriesisch

Verwante met Nederlands

Verwante met Duits

Verwante met Deens

Verwante met Sweeds

Verwante met Yslands

In summary

From Middle English drift, dryft (“act of driving, drove, shower of rain or snow, impulse”), from Old English *drift (“drift”), from Proto-Germanic *driftiz (“drift”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”). Equivalent to drive + -t; cognate with North Frisian drift (“drift”), Saterland Frisian Drift (“current, flow, stream, drift”), Dutch drift (“drift, passion, urge”), German Drift (“drift”) and Trift (“drove, pasture”), Danish drift (“impulse, instinct”), Swedish drift (“impulse, instinct”), Icelandic drift (“drift, snow-drift”).

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