C2 to move slowly, especially as a result of outside forces, with no control over direction:
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[ S ] the general meaning without the details:
to understand the general meaning of what someone is saying
used to say that you have left out information or your opinion from what you have just said, but that you expect the person listening still to understand it:
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[ C ] a pile of snow or something similar, formed by the wind:
[ S or U ] a general development or change in a situation:
Precipitation: snow & ice
to move slowly, esp. as a result of outside forces, with no control over direction:
Someone or something that drifts changes in a gradual way that seems to be controlled by outside forces:
[ U ] the general meaning or message of something said or written:
[ C ] a gradual change that seems to be controlled by outside forces:
[ C ] A drift is also a pile of something that is made larger by the force of the wind:
FINANCE to slowly go up or down in value with no particular control over direction:
FINANCE a slow change in value, with no particular control over direction:
a slow development or change from one situation to another:
a slow movement from one place to another:
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