Definition/Meaning of drift

• English - Noun: drift (countable and uncountable, plural drifts) (countable, physical, uncountable) Movement ; that which moves or is moved.: Anything driven at random . 1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number): Some log perhaps upon the waters swam, a useless drift . (countable, physical, uncountable) A mass…
• English - Verb: drift (third-person singular simple present drifts, present participle drifting, simple past and past participle drifted) (intransitive) To move slowly, especially pushed by current s of water, air, etc. The boat drifted away from the shore. The balloon was drifting in the breeze. (intransitive) To move haphazardly without any destination. He drifted from town to town, never settling down.…
• English - Etymology: 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…
• English - Pronunciation: IPA: /dɹɪft/ Rhymes: -ɪft
• English - Synonyms: drove flock swerve