Found 4 items, similar to drift.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: drift
melayang
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: drift
aliran, pengaliran, tendensi, terkatung-katung
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: drift
drift
v 1: be in motion due to some air or water current;
“The leaves
were blowing in the wind”;
“the boat drifted on the
lake”;
“The sailboat was adrift on the open sea”;
“the
shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore” [syn:
float,
be adrift,
blow]
2: wander from a direct course or at random;
“The child strayed
from the path and her parents lost sight of her”;
“don't
drift from the set course” [syn:
stray,
err]
3: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in
search of food or employment;
“The gypsies roamed the
woods”;
“roving vagabonds”;
“the wandering Jew”;
“The
cattle roam across the prairie”;
“the laborers drift from
one town to the next”;
“They rolled from town to town”
[syn:
roll,
wander,
swan,
stray,
tramp,
roam,
cast,
ramble,
rove,
range,
vagabond]
4: vary or move from a fixed point or course;
“stock prices are
drifting higher”
5: live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely;
“My son drifted
around for years in California before going to law school”
[syn:
freewheel]
6: move in an unhurried fashion;
“The unknown young man drifted
among the invited guests”
7: cause to be carried by a current;
“drift the boats
downstream”
8: drive slowly and far afield for grazing;
“drift the cattle
herds westwards”
9: be subject to fluctuation;
“The stock market drifted upward”
10: be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a
current;
“snow drifting several feet high”;
“sand
drifting like snow”
drift
n 1: a force that moves something along [syn:
impetus,
impulsion]
2: the gradual departure from an intended course due to
external influences (as a ship or plane)
3: a process of linguistic change over a period of time
4: something that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents
5: a general tendency to change (as of opinion);
“not openly
liberal but that is the trend of the book”;
“a broad
movement of the electorate to the right” [syn:
trend,
movement]
6: general meaning or tenor;
“caught the drift of the
conversation” [syn:
purport]
7: a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine;
“they dug a drift parallel with the vein” [syn:
heading,
gallery]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: drift
Adit
\Ad"it\, n. [L. aditus, fr. adire, ?aitum, to go to; ad +
ire to go.]
1. An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly
horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which
water and ores are carried away; -- called also
drift
and
tunnel.
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2. Admission; approach; access. [R.]
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Yourself and yours shall have
Free adit. --Tennyson.
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