(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.
Rift
Definition:
() p. p. of Rive.
(n.) An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
(n.) A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
(v. t.) To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds.
(v. i.) To burst open; to split.
(v. i.) To belch.
Example Sentences:
(1) If he is not bluffing, this may cause a total rift with the European family from which Turkey already feels excluded.
(2) In March, the independent manufacturer of a forthcoming VR gaming headset, the Oculus Rift, was bought by Facebook for $2bn.
(3) However, a spokesperson for the Department for Communities and Local Government denied any reports of a rift with the Treasury.
(4) Compounds 3a and 3c exhibited significant activity against vaccinia virus in vitro, whereas 4a was effective against Rift Valley fever virus in mice.
(5) West African Dwarf sheep were challenged with a low mouse brain-passaged Rift Valley fever virus (Ib-AR 55172) isolated from Nigeria.
(6) A rift between the US and Pakistan appears to be widening at the Nato summit in Chicago – a dangerous development that could undermine Barack Obama's hopes for an orderly withdrawal from Afghanistan.
(7) The therapeutic efficacy of polyriboinosinic-polyribocytidylic acid stabilized with poly-L-lysine and carboxymethyl cellulose [poly(ICLC)] given alone or in combination with ribavirin was evaluated in Swiss Webster mice infected with Rift Valley fever virus.
(8) 1 Forge the Malaqi Trail: Wadi Mujib, Jordan From its northern reaches in Syria, the Great Rift Valley cuts a swathe through Jordan, pushing up the mountains that define many of the country's beautiful and well-managed nature reserves.
(9) The gerbil, Meriones unguiculatus, was investigated as a model for the encephalitic form of Rift Valley fever.
(10) The results mean that ARGeo can now expand geothermal projects up and down the Rift, which runs from Mozambique in the south to Djibouti in the north.
(11) • Facebook gets in a row with games firm Zenimax over who actually owns key parts of technology behind Oculus Rift, with Doom-creator John Carmack at its heart
(12) It’s almost like an 80s movie or something – the kind that studios don’t make anymore.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest There is a definite Big Chill vibe to Don’t Think Twice, a comedy that explores the thorny rifts between friends when one person’s newfound success threatens to alienate the group.
(13) Sisi doesn't seem to realise the deep rifts and political polarisation his policies have created.
(14) Underlining the regional rifts, a senior Iranian military official meanwhile signalled that Iran could yet send military advisers to Yemen to help the Houthis.
(15) Complicating matters further are rifts within the biggest party in congress, the Brazilian Democratic Movement party (PMDB), a party which concentrates more on power than any defined ideology and which has dominated Brazilian politics for the past 30 years.
(16) The answer, for the billionaire entrepreneur, is contained in the purchase of Oculus, the maker of the distinctive $350 Rift headset – which looks like a massive pair of opaque diving goggles.
(17) In the News Corp report , Rafter said the rift with Tomic remained deep and possibly irreconcilable after his dumping from Australia’s Davis Cup team over his Wimbledon post-match outburst.
(18) In a highly unorthodox move illustrating a rift between the party’s leader and its HQ bureaucracy, it was announced on Friday that Fisher would be suspended while the complaints were investigated and a report was submitted to the party’s national executive committee.
(19) In a sign of the depth of the rift at senior levels of the Conservative party, the prime minister told a gathering of business leaders in Downing Street last Wednesday that he was astonished that the mayor would risk the future of the City of London.
(20) Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet agrees to Labour peace talks Read more Smith said: “Yesterday, I spoke directly with Len McCluskey of Unite and met with our leader, Jeremy Corbyn, to explore what I can do to try and heal the rifts that have opened up in our movement.” He said Corbyn had reassured him he was “engaging in talks with an open mind”.