What's the difference between drifted and drifter?
Drifted
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Drift
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.
Drifter
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A drifter, he meandered from city to city, in and out of prison, before arriving in Paradise, where he founded the first branch of the Allah Temple Of Islam in 1930 and set himself up as a black Messiah.
(2) Doctor Sleep , his 56th novel, revisits Danny in adulthood, when he has become an alcoholic drifter haunted by the memory of his raging father.
(3) With the coming of steam drifters in 1900 trawling for white fish became easier and they substituted for the herring and the taste for herring has been lost.
(4) In the classic Hollywood movie, whether the hero is cop, cowboy, private eye, rebel or drifter, there comes a moment when this solitary, self-sufficient loner faces the bad guys all by himself.
(5) AP Singh, representing 19-year-old Sharma, reminded the court of his client's youth and the effect of alcohol, while Thakur's lawyer argued that the 26-year-old drifter had a young son and an aged mother.
(6) Some, like a young white Californian who gave his name only as Sam, are drifters with no clear-cut agenda.
(7) Anticipation is high, therefore, for this sequel to the horror classic, in which Danny, the young boy whose telepathic gift stirred up the ghosts of the Overlook hotel, has grown up to be a troubled drifter using what is left of his "shining" power to bring comfort to the dying in a New Hampshire nursing home.
(8) Among them was Lovers in a Dangerous Space Time, Hyper Light Drifter, Might No 9 from Comcept, Fenic Rage, Aztez and Threes, which is just about the only game on this whole article that my wife would recognise.
(9) They had been joined by a fruit seller and a part-time gym assistant, a former colleague and the juvenile, who was an illiterate drifter, on a "joy ride" after hours of heavy drinking on the evening of the assault.
(10) He described his bookmaker father, Joseph, as a feckless drifter.
(11) In The Homesman , Tommy Lee Jones’s grizzled drifter reflects that folk are happy to yak about death and taxes, “but when it comes to crazy, they just hush up”.
(12) The 59-year-old “drifter” was named as John Russel Houser .
(13) Houser, 59, was described by police as a “drifter”.
(14) Guthrie and Seeger would come to represent different poles of the same world: one a self-mythologising drifter with an outsider's wild charisma, the other a steadfast, reassuring figure amid turbulent times.
(15) Usually, a flammable liquid was poured and ignited by a drifter who was a brief acquaintance and earlier involved in an argument with the victim.
(16) In our work ‘Drifter’ we performed on the rooftops of the vertical city.
(17) The shooter, described as a “drifter” with a history of mental illness, killed Jillian Johnson, 33, and Mayci Breaux, 21, and injured nine others.
(18) The descriptive names of the categories, together with their proportionate sizes and the mean annual consultation rates within the categories were: (1) 'Healthy and competent' (16%; 1.03); (2) 'Contented returners' (12%; 3.28); (3) 'Information seekers' (8%; 4.08); (4) 'Support seekers' (15%; 4.62); (5) 'Drifters' (21%; 2.21) and (6) 'Those hard to convince' (6%; 3.59).
(19) While the details are not yet known of when, where and how Houser, a drifter from Alabama, purchased his weapons, law enforcement said Friday he was denied a concealed-carry permit in 2006 due to a domestic violence report and arson arrest.
(20) The Drifters, or at least the latest reincarnation of a group that has had more parts than Trigger’s broom , provided the half-time entertainment at Goodison Park.