drifting 音标拼音: [dr'ɪftɪŋ]
adj . 漂浮的
漂浮的
drifting 漂移
drifting adj 1 :
continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another ; "
a drifting double -
dealer "; "
the floating population "; "
vagrant hippies of the sixties "
[
synonym : {
aimless }, {
drifting }, {
floating }, {
vagabond },
{
vagrant }]
n 1 :
aimless wandering from place to place Drift \
Drift \,
v .
i . [
imp . &
p .
p . {
Drifted };
p .
pr . &
vb .
n .
{
Drifting }.]
1 .
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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We drifted o '
er the harbor bar . --
Coleridge .
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2 .
To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind ;
to be driven into heaps ;
as ,
snow or sand drifts .
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3 . (
mining )
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 . [
U .
S .]
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67 Moby Thesaurus words for "
drifting ":
ascending ,
axial ,
back ,
back -
flowing ,
backward ,
circumforaneous ,
descending ,
discursive ,
divagatory ,
down -
trending ,
downward ,
errant ,
flitting ,
floating ,
flowing ,
fluent ,
flying ,
footloose ,
footloose and fancy -
free ,
fugitive ,
gadding ,
going ,
gypsy -
like ,
gypsyish ,
gyrational ,
gyratory ,
landloping ,
meandering ,
migrational ,
migratory ,
mounting ,
nomad ,
nomadic ,
passing ,
plunging ,
progressive ,
rambling ,
ranging ,
reflowing ,
refluent ,
regressive ,
retrogressive ,
rising ,
roaming ,
rotary ,
rotational ,
rotatory ,
roving ,
running ,
rushing ,
shifting ,
sideward ,
sinking ,
soaring ,
straggling ,
straying ,
streaming ,
strolling ,
traipsing ,
transient ,
transitory ,
transmigratory ,
up -
trending ,
upward ,
vagabond ,
vagrant ,
wandering
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