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drifting

 
Adjective drifting has 2 senses
  1. aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant - continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"
    Antonym: settled (indirect, via unsettled)
  2. adrift, drifting - afloat on the surface of a body of water; "after the storm the boats were adrift"
    Antonym: aground (indirect, via sunken, afloat)
    Antonyms: sunken, submerged (indirect, via afloat, aground)
Noun drifting has 1 sense
  1. drifting - aimless wandering from place to place
    --1 is a kind of
    wandering, roving, vagabondage
    Derived forms: verb drift2, verb drift3
Verb drift has 10 senses
  1. float, drift, be adrift, blow - 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"
    --1 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
    Derived form: noun drift1
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Something is ----ing PP
  2. stray, err, drift - 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"
    --2 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
    Derived forms: noun driftage1, noun drift2, noun drifting1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s PP
  3. roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond - 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"
    --3 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
    Derived forms: noun drifter1, noun drifting1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s
    Something is ----ing PP
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s PP
  4. drift - vary or move from a fixed point or course; "stock prices are drifting higher"
    --4 is one way to
    vary
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
  5. freewheel, drift - live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely; "My son drifted around for years in California before going to law school"
    --5 is one way to exist, survive, live, subsist
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
  6. drift - move in an unhurried fashion; "The unknown young man drifted among the invited guests"
    --6 is one way to
    circulate
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
  7. drift - cause to be carried by a current; "drift the boats downstream"
    --7 is one way to
    float
    Derived form: noun drift1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  8. drift - drive slowly and far afield for grazing; "drift the cattle herds westwards"
    --8 is one way to
    crop, graze, pasture
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  9. drift - be subject to fluctuation; "The stock market drifted upward"
    --9 is one way to
    change
    Derived form: noun drift5
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
  10. drift - be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current; "snow drifting several feet high"; "sand drifting like snow"
    --10 is one way to
    accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather, amass
    Derived form: noun drift4
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
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