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driftsnounpl. of drift a pile or ridge of granular matter (as sand or snow)deep drifts of snow blocked our driveway banks, bars, mounds snowbanks, snowdriftsembankments, sandbarsheaps, hills, masses, mountains, stacks, tufts a prevailing or general movement or inclinationthe steady drift of the population away from large cities currents, directions, leanings, runs, tendencies, tides, trends, winds curves, downsides, shifts, swings, turnabouts, turns, upsidescustoms, habits, propensities, tenors, wayscountercurrents, countertrends(or counter-trends)undercurrents, undertows 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 contents, denotations, imports, intentions, intents, meanings, purports, senses, significances, significations connotationsclues, cues, hints, implications, indications, inklings, intimations, suggestionsmessages, tenors, themesbottoms, essences, essentialities, natures, souls, spirits, stuffacceptances, acceptations, definitionsburdens, cruxes(also cruces), gistscores, hearts, kernels, marrows, nubs, nuclei(also nucleuses), piths, points, quicksmatters, motifs, motives, questions, subjects, topics driftsverbpresent tense third-person singular of driftto move or proceed smoothly and readilycasual conversation drifting from one topic to another bowls, breezes, brushes, coasts, cruises, flows, glides, rolls, sails, skims, slides, slips, streams, sweeps, whisks flies, races, rushes, speeds flounders, struggles limps, lumbers, plods, stumbles, trudgesshambles, shufflesstamps, stomps, stumps, trampslabors, toils to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the airthe boat drifted along on the current floats, glides, hangs, hovers, poises, rides, sails, swims, wafts bobs, dangles, suspendsbuoysballoons, rafts settles, sinks dives, lunges, plungesdips, immerses, submerges, submerses to move about from place to place aimlesslyspent several years drifting from town to town, picking up odd jobs whenever he needed cash bats, cruises, floats, gads (about), gallivants(also galavants), kicks around, knocks (about), maunders, meanders, mooches, rambles, ranges, roams, roves, traipses, wanders ambles, saunters, strollsdawdles, mopesgypsies, hobos, tramps, vagabondsmills (about or around)straggles, strays |