drift
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～ 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"
drift
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～ 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
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～ move in an unhurried fashion; "The unknown young man drifted among the invited guests"
drift away
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～ lose personal contact over time; "The two women, who had been roommates in college, drifted apart after they got married"
drift
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～ 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"
drift
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～ drive slowly and far afield for grazing; "drift the cattle herds westwards"
drift
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～ be subject to fluctuation; "The stock market drifted upward"
drift
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～ live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely; "My son drifted around for years in California before going to law school"
drift
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～ cause to be carried by a current; "drift the boats downstream"
drift apart
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～ lose personal contact over time; "The two women, who had been roommates in college, drifted apart after they got married"
drift
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～ 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"
drift
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～ a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents
drift
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～ the pervading meaning or tenor; "caught the general drift of the conversation"
drift
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～ a force that moves something along
drift
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～ a process of linguistic change over a period of time
drift
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～ the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane)
drift
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～ a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein"
drift
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～ 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"
driftage
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～ the deviation (by a vessel or aircraft) from its intended course due to drifting