1. (n.) A driving; a violent movement.

2. (n.) The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.

3. (n.) Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.

4. (n.) The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.

5. (n.) That which is driven, forced, or urged along

6. (n.) Anything driven at random.

7. (n.) A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like.

8. (n.) A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.

9. (n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.

10. (n.) A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice.

11. (n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river.

12. (n.) A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.

13. (n.) A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.

14. (n.) A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.

15. (n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.

16. (n.) The distance through which a current flows in a given time.

17. (n.) The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.

18. (n.) The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.

19. (n.) The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.

20. (n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.

21. (n.) The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.

22. (v. i.) 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.

23. (v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts.

24. (v. i.) 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.

25. (v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.

26. (v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand.

27. (v. t.) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.

28. (a.) That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud.

Brownian movement Zeitgeist aberrancy aberration accumulation advance aeroplane affective meaning affluence afflux affluxion aim airlift airplane alluvion alluvium amble angular motion anthill army array ascending ascent atmospherics axial motion azimuth backflowing backing backward motion balloon bank bank up bat bat around batch be a sideliner be airborne be still bear off bearing bend bent bias blaring blasting blind spot branching off bum bunch bundle career circuitousness climbing clump cluster clutch coast cock colony color coloring concourse confluence conflux connotation consequence corner count ties course crawling creeping crook crosscurrent cruise current curve dance dart debris declination defluxion delay denotation departure deposit descending descent detour detritus deviance deviancy deviation deviousness digression diluvium direction direction line discursion disposition divagate divagation divarication divergence diversion do nothing dogleg double downflow downpour downward motion drift off course driftage drifting drive drove dune ebbing effect embankment err errantry essence excurse excursion excursus exorbitation extension fade-out fading fall down ferry fetch away flicker flight flit flitter float flock flood flow flowing fluency flutter flux fly foot force forward motion gad gad about gallivant gam gang ghost gist glacial movement glide go about go astray go the rounds grammatical meaning group gush hairpin hang fire haycock haymow hayrick haystack heading heap heap up helmsmanship herd hibernate hill hit the road hit the trail hobo hop host hover hydroplane idea idle impact implication import inclination inclining indirection inflow intension intent intention interference jaunt jet kennel knock about knock around lay leeway lexical meaning lie lie dormant line line of direction line of march linger literal meaning litter loess lot main current mainstream make leeway mass maunder meander meaning mill run millrace molehill mooch mope moraine mosey motion mound mountain mounting movement mow muck navigate navigation noise nomadize not budge not stir object oblique motion obliquity ongoing onrush onward course orientation outflow overtone pack parcel partiality passage