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Drifting

noun

1.

Aimless wandering from place to place.

adjective

1.

Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another. Synonyms: aimless, floating, vagabond, vagrant. "The floating population" , "Vagrant hippies of the sixties"

Drift

verb

(past & past part. drifted; pres. part. drifting)

1.

Be in motion due to some air or water current. Synonyms: be adrift, blow, float. "The boat drifted on the lake" , "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea" , "The shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"

2.

Wander from a direct course or at random. Synonyms: err, stray. "Don't drift from the set course"

3.

Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment. Synonyms: cast, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander. "Roving vagabonds" , "The wandering Jew" , "The cattle roam across the prairie" , "The laborers drift from one town to the next" , "They rolled from town to town"

4.

Vary or move from a fixed point or course.

5.

Live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely. Synonym: freewheel.

6.

Move in an unhurried fashion.

7.

Cause to be carried by a current.

8.

Drive slowly and far afield for grazing.

9.

Be subject to fluctuation.

10.

Be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current. "Sand drifting like snow"

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"Drifting" Quotes from Famous Books

... as easily as a spider's web; lead and glass scattered all over the rooms, leaving only the shattered frames, through which rushed the resistless wind and blinding snow. . . . Through the joints of doors and windows, the cracks and crevices, before unknown to the eye, the drifting snow penetrated and piled up in ridges, so that rooms and passages had to be cleared like the pavement in the streets. . . . On an examination of Cotehele Woods, the scene presented gives one the ...

— Lynton and Lynmouth - A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland • John Presland

... inevitable, but which was wholly and familiarly uninteresting. He did not even see how it must strike the girl who was going through it all for him, for David's thoughts were out on the flood-tide of sorrow, drifting against ...

— Marcia Schuyler • Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

... that Mrs Massey was on the forecastle talking with Peggy Mitford. A smart breeze was blowing— just enough to fill all the sails and carry the ship swiftly on her course, without causing much of a sea. The moon shone fitfully through a mass of drifting clouds, mingling its pallid light with the wondrous phosphoric sheen of the ...

— The Coxswain's Bride - also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue • R.M. Ballantyne

... Hawkes came drifting downward. He started to cry out in fear, until he noticed that the ground was coming up at him slowly, and that he was slipping sideways. He landed on a street back of the tanks, ...

— Pursuit • Lester del Rey

... touched the drifted masses at its base and incontinently came striding with seven-leagued boots towards us. The distant cliff seemed to shift and quiver, and at the touch of the dawn a reek of gray vapour poured upward from the crater floor, whirls and puffs and drifting wraiths of gray, thicker and broader and denser, until at last the whole westward plain was steaming like a wet handkerchief held before the fire, and the westward cliffs were no more than ...

— The First Men In The Moon • H. G. Wells

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