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General dictionaries General (33 matching dictionaries)
  1. drift: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
  2. drift: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
  3. drift: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  4. drift: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
  5. drift: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
  6. drift, drift: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
  7. Drift, drift: Wordnik [home, info]
  8. drift: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
  9. drift: Wiktionary [home, info]
  10. drift: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  11. drift: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  12. drift: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  13. drift: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  14. drift: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  15. drift: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  16. drift: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  17. drift: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  18. Drift (Doctor Who), Drift (Emily Osment song), Drift (Erra album), Drift (Flotsam and Jetsam album), Drift (Nosaj Thing album), Drift (Underworld project), Drift (book), Drift (disambiguation), Drift (film series), Drift (geology), Drift (linguistics), Drift (novel), Drift (plasma physics), Drift (telecommunication), Drift, The Drift (band), The Drift: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  19. drift: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
  20. Drift: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  21. drift: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  22. drift: Rhymezone [home, info]
  23. drift: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  24. drift: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  25. drift: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  26. drift: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  27. drift: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  28. drift: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  29. drift: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  30. drift: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]
  31. Drift: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DRIFT: Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drift: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]
  2. DRIFT: Investopedia [home, info]
  3. drift: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Drift (mining), drift: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drift: Orthodontic Terms [home, info]
  2. drift: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  3. drift: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DRIFT: Acronym Finder [home, info]
  2. The Drift, drift: Idioms [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. drift: Archaeology Wordsmith [home, info]
  2. Drift: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology [home, info]
  3. drift: Botanical Terms [home, info]
  4. drift: Evolution Glossary [home, info]
  5. drift: Anthropology dictionary [home, info]

Slang dictionaries Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Drift: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang [home, info]

Sports dictionaries Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. drift: Hickok Sports Glossaries [home, info]
  2. Drift: Sports Definitions [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. drift: Electronics [home, info]
  2. Drift: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
  3. Drift (coal): Glossary of Coal Mining Terms [home, info]
  4. drift: Glossary of Meteorology [home, info]
  5. DRIFT: Lake and Water Word Glossary [home, info]
  6. drift: Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary [home, info]
  7. Drift: Dictionary for Avionics [home, info]
  8. drift: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]
  9. Drift: Urban Conservation Glossary [home, info]
  10. Drift: Latitude Mexico [home, info]
  11. DRIFT: Power Engineering [home, info]

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Quick definitions from WordNet (drift)

noun:  a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine ("They dug a drift parallel with the vein")
noun:  general meaning or tenor ("Caught the drift of the conversation")
noun:  a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
noun:  something that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents
noun:  a force that moves something along
noun:  the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane)
noun:  a process of linguistic change over a period of time
verb:  vary or move from a fixed point or course ("Stock prices are drifting higher")
verb:  be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current ("Snow drifting several feet high")
verb:  be subject to fluctuation ("The stock market drifted upward")
verb:  drive slowly and far afield for grazing ("Drift the cattle herds westwards")
verb:  cause to be carried by a current ("Drift the boats downstream")
verb:  move in an unhurried fashion ("The unknown young man drifted among the invited guests")
verb:  move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment ("The laborers drift from one town to the next")
verb:  live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely ("My son drifted around for years in California before going to law school")
verb:  be in motion due to some air or water current ("The boat drifted on the lake")
verb:  wander from a direct course or at random ("Don't drift from the set course")

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