drift
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(physical) Movement; that which moves or is moved.
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
A bad man, being under the drift of any passion, will follow the impulse of it till something interpose.
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(countable, uncountable)A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
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(countable, uncountable)The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
c. early 1700s, Joseph Addison, A Discourse on Ancient and Modern Learning He has made the drift of the whole poem a compliment on his country in general.
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(countable, uncountable)(architecture) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
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(handiwork) A tool.
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(countable, uncountable)A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to obloid projectiles.
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(uncountable)Minor deviation of audio or video playback from its correct speed.
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(uncountable)(uncountable, film) The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene.
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(countable, uncountable)A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery.
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(countable, uncountable)An adit or tunnel driven forward for purposes of exploration or exploitation; generally eventually to a dead end.
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(countable, uncountable)A sloping winze or road to the surface, for purposes of haulage.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
The boat drifted away from the shore.
The balloon was drifting in the breeze.
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(intransitive)To move haphazardly without any destination.
He drifted from town to town, never settling down.
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(intransitive)To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
This car tends to drift left at high speeds.
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(transitive)To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
1865-1866, John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua I was drifted back first to the ante - Nicene history , and then to the Church of Alexandria
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(transitive)To drive into heaps.
A current of wind drifts snow or sand
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(intransitive)To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
Snow or sand drifts.
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(US)(mining, US) To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
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(transitive)(transitive, engineering) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
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(automotive) To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See Drifting (motorsport).
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From Middle English drift, dryft (act of driving, drove, shower of rain or snow, impulse), from Old English *drift (drift), from Proto-Germanic *driftiz (drift), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (to drive, push). Equivalent to drive + -t; cognate with drift drift, Drift, drift, Drift drift and Trift (drove, pasture), drift, drift, drift.