Synonym: cruise, float, glide, meander, ramble, roam, stray, wander. Similar words: rifle, terrific, lift, fifty, fifth, shift, gifted, fifteen. Meaning: [drɪft] 
n. 1. a force that moves something along 2. the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane) 3. a process of linguistic change over a period of time 4. something that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents 5. a general tendency to change (as of opinion) 6. the pervading meaning or tenor 7. a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine. v. 1. be in motion due to some air or water current 2. wander from a direct course or at random 3. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment 4. vary or move from a fixed point or course 5. live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely 6. move in an unhurried fashion 7. cause to be carried by a current 8. drive slowly and far afield for grazing 9. be subject to fluctuation 10. be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current.
n. 1. a force that moves something along 2. the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane) 3. a process of linguistic change over a period of time 4. something that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents 5. a general tendency to change (as of opinion) 6. the pervading meaning or tenor 7. a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine. v. 1. be in motion due to some air or water current 2. wander from a direct course or at random 3. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment 4. vary or move from a fixed point or course 5. live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely 6. move in an unhurried fashion 7. cause to be carried by a current 8. drive slowly and far afield for grazing 9. be subject to fluctuation 10. be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current. 
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211. At geomagnetic equator, the irregularities in the E region are mainly produced by two-stream instability and gradient drift instability.
212. Eventually band members drift off to sleep, with one or two nuclear families around each fire.
213. The steel and the heat treatment process of fine heavy load drift was determined by means of production tests. And the satisfactory result was obtained.
214. The upward drift stoping with backfill is a mining method with a widespread use future.
215. The utility model has the advantages of little drift for measurement results, high accuracy and long service life, and the utility model is a two-wire system.sentencedict.com/drift.html
216. Toshinori Inoue, head of tourism in Abashiri, says the melting drift ice is an obvious indicator of global warming.
217. Because in U-I model flux observation pure integration element is adopted, it brings about two problems of DC drift error and initial integration error.
218. But we must not drift or lie at anchor .
219. We were on the midmorning "slow" boat, about to embark on a long day's drift down Nicaragua's Rio San Juan.
220. Compared with Open Loop Transcoding (OLT) structure, the proposed one can overcome the influence caused by drift errors through compensating the difference between reference frames in transcoder.
221. The results showed that the nozzle type, droplet size, side wind, boom speed and air-assistance were related to the drift potential, but the plant canopy had less influence to the drift.
222. To be on the right-hand-side of an eye-level selection is often considered the very best place, because most people are right-handed and most people's eyes drift rightwards.
223. The typical spices in this brew—ginger, cloves and cinnamon—will get the blood flowing but the caffeine effect is less so you'll still be able to drift off to sleep after your meal.
224. If the drift exceeds the window time, then the server starts rejecting client credentials and resynchronization is needed.
225. The designed converter could operate well with a slender supply voltage signal because of its high input resistance and low offset drift.
226. It is found that the effect of intense current space charge modifies the classical klystron description in the drift tube region and shortens the drift length of the maximum modulated current.
227. I can't remember any one night when I lost that ability to drift off, but by the age of seven I would regularly be pacing my room until dawn.
228. The results of the experiment about the frequency drift and force-frequency characteristic are also given.
229. The range error and drift error are calculated and analysed when the fitting is performed on different firing angle, so that a reasonable fitting region is chosen to decide the firing angle.
230. The electron drift velocity N is given, which is in good agreement with experimental result.
231. The storage dynamics in doped lithium niobate are studied. It gives that the equations of the migration of charges is due to diffusion or drift and photovoltaic effect.