drift's Usage Examples:

Experiments with annealed iron gave less satisfactory results, on account of the slowness with which the metal settled down into a new magnetic state, thus causing a " drift " of the magnetometer needle, which sometimes persisted for several seconds.

Kiki didn't knock the door down as he could, instead beating loudly enough for the sound to drift down the road.

The Danube bridges, which had broken down once already, had at last been cut by heavy barges, which had been set adrift down stream for the purpose by the Austrians.

Howitzer sights are vertical and do not allow for drift; they are graduated in degrees only.

, have been found in the gold and tin bearing drifts and river gravels in numerous localities throughout the states.

This may go some way to explain the partial drift cover in the region and the widespread occurrence of rock cored drumlins.

High mounds, pyramids heaped in fantastic shapes, and impenetrable drifts lay scattered in every direction.

If only you knew what the nightly visitant is !The polar bear is an occasional visitant, being brought to the coast by the Greenland drift-ice.

The part of this atmospheric circulation which is steadiest in its action is the trade winds, and this is, therefore, the most effective in producing drift movement of the surface waters.

The boat and machine had drifted apart, and one of the tugs in its zeal to render assistance had fastened a rope to the frame of the machine in the reverse position from what it should have been attached, and had broken the frame entirely in two.

s snores drifted into the bedchamber from his room.

Synonyms:

go, blow, stream, locomote, tide, waft, travel, float, be adrift, move,

Antonyms:

retreat, opening, closing, discontinue, stay in place,