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float: be in motion due to some air or water current; "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore" stray: wander from a direct course or at random; "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course" roll: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "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" a force that moves something along vary or move from a fixed point or course; "stock prices are drifting higher" the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane) freewheel: live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely; "My son drifted around for years in California before going to law school" move in an unhurried fashion; "The unknown young man drifted among the invited guests" a process of linguistic change over a period of time cause to be carried by a current; "drift the boats downstream" something that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents a general tendency to change (as of opinion); "not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad movement of the electorate to the right" drive slowly and far afield for grazing; "drift the cattle herds westwards" be subject to fluctuation; "The stock market drifted upward" the pervading meaning or tenor; "caught the general drift of the conversation" a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein" be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current; "snow drifting several feet high"; "sand drifting like snow"
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a mine tunnel following the direction, or "drift," of a vein; opposite of a cross-cut.
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Description: See: genetic drift. Source: None
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The velocity of a current.
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To deviate or vary from scheduled execution.
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