drifting / drɪft /

漂移漂泊漂流漂移的

drifting4 个定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
  2. Navigation. the component of the movement that is due to the force of wind and currents.
  3. Oceanography. a broad, shallow ocean current that advances at the rate of 10 to 15 miles a day.
v. 无主动词 verb
  1. to be carried along by currents of water or air, or by the force of circumstances.
  2. to wander aimlessly: He drifts from town to town.
  3. to be driven into heaps, as by the wind: drifting sand.
  4. to deviate or vary from a set course or adjustment.
v. 有主动词 verb
  1. to carry along: The current drifted the boat to sea.
  2. to drive into heaps: The wind drifted the snow.
  3. Machinery. to enlarge with a drift.to align or straighten with a drift.
v. 动词组 verb
  1. drift off, to fall asleep gradually.

drifting 近义词

v. 动词 verb

move aimlessly

更多drifting例句

  1. Holmes admitted he had no data to back up the idea, and the geology community remained largely unconvinced of continental drift.
  2. If she was right, the valley might be a rift where molten material came up from below, forming new crust and pushing the ocean floor apart — evidence that could support continental drift.
  3. The move highlights the increasing dominance of conservative punditry at a network that positioned itself at its founding as a “fair and balanced” alternative to what it saw as a liberal drift in other media.
  4. Because wind can build drifts of deep snow over holes, effectively hiding them from view, using a pole as a probe to detect divots can be a lifesaver in deep and uneven snowpack.
  5. Residents continue to complain of drift from aerial spraying and heavy sediment pollution into Nehalem Bay, home to clams, Dungeness crab and runs of chinook and coho salmon.
  6. Strong currents and winds, however, mean any debris could be drifting up to 31 miles a day eastward, away from the impact zone.
  7. It may also have left them somewhat untethered, drifting in between their own lives and the eternal mysteries.
  8. In this valley so far away from Syria, questions loom like mist drifting off the Caucasus.
  9. Tokyo Bay is “a black expanse where gulls wheeled above drifting shoals of white Styrofoam.”
  10. The life of the club owner was something Leonard left behind, the noise and violence drifting into lore.
  11. Something came up between me and Lyn—and I drifted, and kept drifting.
  12. To-morrow—a crippled veteran, and after that a pensioner drifting fast into a garrulous dotage.
  13. As there was not now a breath of wind, we were entirely at the mercy of the stream, and began drifting back.
  14. A sheet of rain came drifting across the lake toward the hillock on which the house stood.
  15. We were now drifting to the South by East through a wide channel, sounding in between fifty and sixty fathoms, rocky bottom.