What is the meaning of DRIFT. Phrases containing DRIFT
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A drifter.
If you have a high one, you aren’t reliable.
Take a powder, blow, split, scram, drift
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Leave
Go, leave
1. To name all 16 points of the compass. 2. To turn and face all different points of the compass when a ship drifts or loses control. 3. Referring to a wind that is constantly shifting.
1. An object designed to prevent or slow the drift of a ship, attached to the ship by a line or chain; typically a metal, hook-like or plough-like object designed to grip the bottom under the body of water (but also see sea anchor). 2. The act of deploying an anchor ("She anchored offshore.")
To turn a sailing ship so that its bow heads into the wind and the ship lies motionless except for drifting, in order to meet a storm.
A measure of reliability of a sailor. If they have a high drift factor, they can't be relied upon.
A class of ship used by the Canadian navy in WWI. It is actually a type of fishing boat designed to catch herring in a long drift net, long used in the Netherlands and Great Britain.
Refers to the behavior of a ship under the influence of wind and current.
Drift off to sleep
Running with steam throttle cracked open to keep air and dust from being sucked into steam cylinders
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Slangs & AI derived meanings
Car registration papers
To do a sex act for profit.
Capture is British slang for to seduce, to succeed in a sexual conquest.
a sculpin, a scavenger fish
Rock scorpion is military slang for a civilian resident of Gibraltar.
To give false evidence , to set up someone.
Group of teenagers or men harassing gay men, and assaulting them. [Hey, how's about some gay bashing? Let's go kick the shit out of the faggot's.].
Vamose (also vamos and vamoose) is slang for to depart quickly; to depart from.
Crim is Australian and New Zealand slang for a criminal. Crim is British slang for Christmas.
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a.
Full of drifts; tending to form drifts, as snow, and the like.
n.
Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind.
v. i.
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.
n.
The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
n.
Wood drifted or floated by water.
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A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9.
n.
The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
n.
A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
v. i.
To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts.
v. i.
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.
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A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like.
n.
Same as Drift, 11.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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imp. & p. p.
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a.
That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud.
n.
Anything that drifts.
v. t.
To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand.
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Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
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Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
v. t.
To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
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