drift 的 4 个定义
- to be carried along by currents of water or air, or by the force of circumstances.
- to wander aimlessly: He drifts from town to town.
- to be driven into heaps, as by the wind: drifting sand.
- to deviate or vary from a set course or adjustment.
- to carry along: The current drifted the boat to sea.
- to drive into heaps: The wind drifted the snow.
- Machinery. to enlarge with a drift.to align or straighten with a drift.
- drift off, to fall asleep gradually.
drift 近义词
accumulation
meaning, significance of communication
move aimlessly
更多drift例句
- In this view, play is to creativity what genetic drift is to evolution and what heat is to self-assembling molecules.
- The random rise or fall of gene variants in a population is known as genetic drift.
- A handmade soap booth sent drifts of lavender into the unseasonably warm air.
- To make matters worse, ankle monitors are prone to technical glitches such as signal loss and drift, prohibitively short battery life, and inaccurate alerts sent to monitoring agencies.
- Conditions in Oregon are unprecedented, with fire and smoke drift threatening every wine-producing region in the state, according to the Oregon Wine Board.
- Is he the type of character who would ever join the group permanently, or is he more of a drift-in, drift-out kind of guy?
- After years of strategic drift, the U.S. military may finally have a path to maintain its edge over countries like China.
- Things can drift over time and you can find yourself very far away from shore when you thought you were quite close to the beach.
- The mother continues to row frantically, but the boat begins to drift slowly downstream.
- Everyone will laugh, the word “nerd” will be used affectionately, and the conversation will drift on.
- They stopped, leaning over a jagged fence made of sea-drift, to ask for water.
- Quite a number of sandeaters, as time passed, seemed to drift in and out of the back room.
- For all that Marius had no Italian he understood the drift of the words, assisted as they were by the man's expressive gesture.
- And they will jump into the air from the verge of high banks, and land on the drift at the bottom with perfect balance.
- Their effect is, however, probably small as compared with that massive drift which we have now to note.