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drifting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drift \Drift\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drifted; p. pr. & vb. n. Drifting.]
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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.
We drifted o'er the harbor bar. -- Coleridge.
To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts.
(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.]
Wiktionary
Moving aimlessly or at the mercy of external forces. n. 1 (context motorsports English) A driving technique where the driver intentionally oversteers, causing loss of traction in the rear wheels, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. 2 The act by which something drifts. v
(present participle of drift English)
WordNet
adj. continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties" [syn: aimless, floating, vagabond, vagrant]
afloat on the surface of a body of water; "after the storm the boats were adrift" [syn: adrift(p), drifting(a)]
n. aimless wandering from place to place
Wikipedia
Drifting may refer to:
- Drifting (motorsport)
- Pipe drift or drifting, measuring a pipe's inner roundness
Drifting is a driving technique where the driver intentionally oversteers, causing loss of traction in the rear wheels or all tires, while maintaining control for the entirety of a corner. A car is drifting when the rear slip angle is greater than the front slip angle, to such an extent that often the front wheels are pointing in the opposite direction to the turn (e.g. car is turning left, wheels are pointed right or vice versa, also known as opposite lock or counter-steering).
As a motorsport discipline, professional drifting competitions are held worldwide and are judged according to the speed, angle, showmanship and line taken through a corner or set of corners.
Drifting is a 1923 American silent drama film based on the play Drifting, by John Colton and Daisy H. Andrews. The film was directed by Tod Browning and features Priscilla Dean, Wallace Beery and Anna May Wong. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. Copies of the film exist in Moscow and in the George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection. In 2012 the National Film Preservation Foundation awarded a grant to preserve a print that has Czech language intertitles which were translated back into English.
Drifting (a.k.a. Nagu'a) is the title of an independent film directed by Amos Guttman. Filmed in 1982, released a year later, it is the first Israeli LGBT-themed film, and follows a lonely young gay man as he attempts to find love and break into the movie business. The film is in Hebrew with English subtitles Sometimes the film's title is translated as "Afflicted".
"Drifting" is a song by contemporary Christian musician Plumb featuring Jars of Clay frontman Dan Haseltine from her forthcoming sixth studio album, Need You Now. It was released on August 30, 2011, as the first single from the album.
"Drifting" is a song by American rapper G-Eazy. It features the vocals from Chris Brown and Tory Lanez. It was released on April 17, 2016 as the third single of his second studio album When It's Dark Out. The song was produced by Cashmere Cat, Happy Perez, and Mssingno.
Usage examples of "drifting".
Until now, as it had grown and matured, it had lived adventitiously, drifting with the currents, eating whatever food came its way.
He had, in fact, crossed the designs of no less a power than the German Empire, he had blundered into the hot focus of Welt-Politik, he was drifting helplessly towards the great Imperial secret, the immense aeronautic park that had been established at a headlong pace in Franconia to develop silently, swiftly, and on an immense scale the great discoveries of Hunstedt and Stossel, and so to give Germany before all other nations a fleet of airships, the air power and the Empire of the world.
It may be a world captured from afara lonely wanderer cast off from some other star, captured by the Sun after millions of years of drifting lightless through space.
The sky was heavy with drifting masses of cloud, aflare with red and gold and all the sunset colours, from the black line of coast, lying in the west, far into the east, where sea and sky were turning gray.
Snow drifting down on us, the lights of the tree merry and bright, three men shot to pieces, a bear down, and one heathen whose mind had gone for a long walk, wandering aimlessly in the darkness which had engulfed us all.
Timothy spun to see Lord Nicodemus descending the stairs toward them with Alastor in his arms, a roiling cloud of supernatural energies drifting behind and above him.
Drifting like shadows across the ground the Amar crept toward the Egg.
The final video in the Anabasis files showed Nimrod drifting down the shaft toward the waiting team.
All this afternoon he was drifting in thought, arraigning his past life, excusing it, condemning it, and trying to forecast its future.
Greater problem: low human-scale ceilings made it very scant clearance for tall atevi such as Banichi even to stand up, once they were standing, and made a room in which four or five atevi were drifting askew a very small-seeming room indeed.
They began drifting back up the alley toward the Monaghan house and West Auer Avenue.
Others, like Tombstone and Batman, set down at U Feng, dropping onto a runway partly masked by drifting smoke.
Felix Borel drifting down the Pichide on a timber raft under the tall clouds that paraded across the greenish sky of Krishna.
Maia and Brod ducked again, having caught sight of an expanse of floating bits and flinders, logs and loosely tethered boxes, along with one drifting, grotesquely ruined body.
They floated free, occasionally bumping into walls and discarded clothing, or drifting through tears.