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driftnoun a pile or ridge of granular matter (as sand or snow)deep drifts of snow blocked our driveway bank, bar, mound snowbank, snowdriftembankment, sandbarheap, hill, mass, mountain, stack, tuft a prevailing or general movement or inclinationthe steady drift of the population away from large cities current, direction, leaning, run, tendency, tide, trend, wind curve, downside, shift, swing, turn, turnabout, upsidecustom, habit, propensity, tenor, waycountercurrent, countertrendundercurrent, undertow the idea that is conveyed or intended to be conveyed to the mind by language, symbol, or actionyou should expect a visit from the stork, if you get my drift content, denotation, import, intent, intention, meaning, purport, sense, significance, signification connotationclue, cue, hint, implication, indication, inkling, intimation, suggestionmessage, tenor, themebottom, essence, essentiality, nature, soul, spirit, stuffacceptance, acceptation, definitionburden, crux, gistcore, heart, kernel, marrow, nub, nucleus, pith, point, quickmatter, motif, motive, question, subject, topic to move or proceed smoothly and readilycasual conversation drifting from one topic to another bowl, breeze, brush, coast, cruise, flow, glide, roll, sail, skim, slide, slip, stream, sweep, whisk fly, race, rush, speed flounder, struggle limp, lumber, plod, stumble, trudgeshamble, shufflestamp, stomp, stump, tramplabor, toil to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the airthe boat drifted along on the current float, glide, hang, hover, poise, ride, sail, swim, waft bob, dangle, suspendbuoyballoon, raft settle, sink dive, lunge, plungedip, immerse, submerge, submerse to move about from place to place aimlesslyspent several years drifting from town to town, picking up odd jobs whenever he needed cash bat, cruise, float, gad (about), gallivant(also galavant), kick around, knock (about), maunder, meander, mooch, ramble, range, roam, rove, traipse, wander amble, saunter, strolldawdle, mopegypsy, hobo, tramp, vagabondmill (about or around)straggle, stray n.tendency, trend, drift, tenor, current mean movement in a particular direction.tendency implies an inclination sometimes amounting to an impelling force.a general tendency toward inflation trend applies to the general direction maintained by a winding or irregular course.the long-term trend of the stock market is upward drift may apply to a tendency determined by external forcesthe drift of the population away from large cities or it may apply to an underlying or obscure trend of meaning or discourse.got the drift of her argument tenor stresses a clearly perceptible direction and a continuous, undeviating course.the tenor of the times current implies a clearly defined but not necessarily unalterable course.an encounter that changed the current of my life in the 14th century |