| 单词 | drift |
| 释义 | Word Frequency drift(drɪft) verb (mainly intr) 1. (also tr) to be carried along by or as if by currents of air or water or (of a current) to carry(a vessel, etc) along 2. to move aimlessly from place to place or from one activity to another 3. to wander or move gradually away from a fixed course or point; stray 4. (also tr) (of snow, sand, etc) to accumulate in heaps or banks or to drive (snow, sand, etc) into heaps or banks noun 5. something piled up by the wind or current, such as a snowdrift 6. tendency, trend, meaning, or purport the drift of the argument 7. a state of indecision or inaction 8. the extent to which a vessel, aircraft, projectile, etc is driven off its course by adverse winds, tide, or current 9. a general tendency of surface ocean water to flow in the direction of the prevailing winds North Atlantic Drift 10. a driving movement, force, or influence; impulse 11. a controlled four-wheel skid, used by racing drivers to take bends at high speed 12. a loose unstratified deposit of sand, gravel, etc, esp one transported and deposited by a glacier or ice sheet 13. a horizontal passage in a mine that follows the mineral vein 14. something, esp a group of animals, driven along by human or natural agencies a drift of cattle 15. Also called: driftpin a tapering steel tool driven into holes to enlarge or align them before bolting or riveting 16. an uncontrolled slow change in some operating characteristic of a piece of equipment, esp an electroniccircuit or component 17. linguistics gradual change in a language, esp in so far as this is influenced by the internal structure of the language rather than by contact with other languages 18. South Africa a ford 19. engineering a copper or brass bar used as a punch Derived forms drifty (ˈdrifty) adjective Word origin C13: from Old Norse: snowdrift; related to Old High German trift pasturage |
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