(n.) The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
(n.) Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
(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.
(n.) That which is driven, forced, or urged along
(n.) Anything driven at random.
(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.
(n.) A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
(n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
(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.
(n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river.
(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.
(n.) A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
(n.) A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.
(n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
(n.) The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
(n.) The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
(n.) The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
(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.
(n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
(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.
(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.
(v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts.
(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.
(v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
(v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand.
(v. t.) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
(a.) That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud.
Example Sentences:
(1) Electromagnetic flow probes with an inner diameter of 2, 1.5 and 1 nm were used for studies on zero-line drifting and for calibration procedures in a series of rats and rabbits.
(2) It is microcomputer-based, and more easily set up and administered than the drifting-text procedure.
(3) The signals were processed digitally using three different algorithms: 1) simple linear regression (LR); 2) linear regression with drift correction achieved by adding to, or subtracting from the plethysmographic signal a term proportional to time (LRC); 3) Fourier analysis (FFT).
(4) Abducting saccades, which were slightly hypometric, displayed a marked postsaccadic centripetal drift.
(5) With these stringent criteria the rejection rate was 71.0% for group A records, 58.5% for group B and 44.5% for group C. The proportions of records with peak quality (no missing leads or clipping, and grade 1 noise, lead drift or beat-to-beat drift) were 4.5% for group A, 5.5% for group B and 23.0% for group C. Suggested revisions in the grading of technical quality of ECGs are presented.
(6) However, there is no certainty that both of Ainu and the people in Ueno derived from the same origin, or that genetic drift due to endogamy in this village took place.
(7) Efforts to obtain long term, reliable direct measurements of blood pressures have not been successful because of blood clotting impairing the function of sensors, baseline drift, artifacts on measurements, and health hazard-related catheterization.
(8) downward occupational and downward social drift, premature retirement and achievement of the expected social development.
(9) Both sides agree that antigenic diversity is advantageous although selectionists see benefits in individual mutations whereas the proponents of random genetic drift see the advantage in the parasite's capacity to tolerate diversity per se.
(10) Acuity for the direction of drift for these stimuli is of the same order of precision as orientation acuity for static or drifting gratings, and exhibits a meridional anisotropy that favours the principal meridians.
(11) The most parsimonious explanation of this result is that much genetic drift accompanied the establishment of local populations in cities and that there has been little subsequent gene flow.
(12) In contrast, in women, time period effects were a significant improvement on drift for melanoma of the trunk and lower extremity.
(13) We examined the effect of ethylene glycol (EG) concentration, in water, on O2 sensitivity, stirring effect, in vitro drift, in vitro response time, behaviour on the skin of newborn infants and in vivo response time.
(14) When inflation was allowed to drift from 2% to 4% in the 1970s, inflation expectations became unanchored altogether, and price growth far exceeded 4%.
(15) Diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform (DRIFT) spectroscopy was used to characterize the product of each step in the preparation of a silica-immobilized N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS) active ester.
(16) She had attitude to burn, though, while the Bristol crew were content to drift, their work rate informed by the slow pace of their native city and by what might be called the spliff consciousness that determined not just the bass-heavy pulse of their music but the worldview of their lyrics, which often tended towards the insular and the paranoid.
(17) Let’s make sure it’s not on the usual plane of politics and point-scoring and pettiness that drifts away in the next news cycle.
(18) The ABO and Rh systems of the population in 26 residential units in the province of Ferrara were studied to detect the effect of genetic drift on the differentiation of gene frequencies.
(19) After the army, Page drifted between jobs and played in white power bands.
(20) Evidence of genetic drift of serologic types and of some increase in the prevalence of erythromycin-resistant strains has appeared.
Driftwood
Definition:
(n.) Wood drifted or floated by water.
(n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.
Example Sentences:
(1) The War Against Terror is another moment in this continuing saga of our species toward an unpredictable somewhere between All against All and One World,” writes Scott Atran, attempting to place terrorism in the context of the evolution of human identities: While economic globalisation has steamrolled or left aside large chunks of humankind, political globalisation actively engages people of all societies and walks of life – even the global economy’s driftwood: refugees, migrants, marginals, and those most frustrated in their aspirations.
(2) Sixteen South Belfast-based Sixteen South specialises in children's TV programmes and its hits include Pajanimals and Driftwood Bay .
(3) • Doubles from €115 B&B, laalmendrayelgitano.com Hotel MC San José A chic and stylish boutique hotel in a seaside town, with a proper seaside holiday feel courtesy of the boat in the lobby and liberal use of driftwood and pebbles.
(4) There's a wood-burning stove, and bits of sculpture everywhere – a couple of large marrows sculpted in brass, another of concrete; a skull with gold-tipped teeth (like Lucas's own, they flash when she smiles); a pair of pert round breasts, perched like jellies atop shelves of music; small casts of her boyfriend Julian Simmons's penis, made for her show Penetralia , which opened in 2008; a big painting by Raymond Pettibon; huge red platform shoes and black fetish boots that she will cast in concrete and show in Krems, Austria in July; a general, seaside sense of driftwood and flotsam.
(5) We think about making a sculpture out of driftwood.
(6) In theory this is the moment of pure patronage in British politics, the hours when the prime minister can ruthlessly remove the ministerial deadwood and driftwood, alongside the politically awkward or dispensable.
(7) The show started in 1860 when the newly-wed "Professor" Codman carved two pieces of driftwood into the much-loved glove puppets.
(8) The £6bn garden industry sells plants but also £20,000 wooden statues of horses and panthers, £10,000 gateposts and sheds, as well as beehives, bird boxes and driftwood sculptures.
(9) For me, Weston's black and white images of Point Lobos – its angular rocks, tangled seaweed, bent cypress trees, sun-scorched driftwood – possess an almost unearthly beauty that is both austere and sensual, somehow not so "heightened" through technique as his more famous pictures.
(10) How much easier it would be to turn away from my intended destination and move in their direction, flowing with them, like driftwood carried by a flood.
(11) Rita Kaimwata, a 27-year-old mother of two (soon to be three), lives in a typical Kiribati home of driftwood, salvaged timber and palm thatching.
(12) We stop at fjord-side pots in Strandir , on rocky beaches strewn with giant pieces of driftwood from Siberian trees bleached by the elements.
(13) The item, discovered among seaweed and driftwood, resembles part of a plane, with the words “caution no step” visible, according to footage on Australia’s Channel Seven.
(14) Inside is a bench of driftwood and some empty plastic containers.
(15) This winter you’ll be stepping into Skye Halla, a Viking “Drinking Hall in the Clouds” with fire pits, driftwood sculptures and a Viking long boat.
(16) When I arrived to build my own bothy, I found the wreckage of many other formerly grand structures, now merely driftwood on the sand.