| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Drift.[Websters]
2. To be scoped, outreached or roomed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have floated or wafted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be biased. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have dashed or lunged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be patterned. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have motioned or actioned. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To be massed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have pointed, objected or faced. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To be legged.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb drift.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (drift) | 1. Be in motion due to some air or water current; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore".[Wordnet]. 2. Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "the laborers drift from one town to the next".[Wordnet]. 3. Vary or move from a fixed point or course; "stock prices are drifting higher".[Wordnet]. 4. Live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely; "My son drifted around for years in California before going to law school".[Wordnet]. 5. Move in an unhurried fashion; "The unknown young man drifted among the invited guests".[Wordnet]. 6. Cause to be carried by a current; "drift the boats downstream".[Wordnet]. 7. Drive slowly and far afield for grazing; "drift the cattle herds westwards".[Wordnet]. 8. Be subject to fluctuation; "The stock market drifted upward".[Wordnet]. 9. Be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current; "snow drifting several feet high"; "sand drifting like snow".[Wordnet]. 10. 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".[Wordnet]. 11. To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east.[Websters]. 12. To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts.[Websters]. 13. 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.[Websters]. 14. To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.[Websters]. 15. To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand.[Websters]. 16. To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.[Websters]. 17. Base verb from the following inflections: drifting, drifted, drifts, drifter, drifters, driftingly and driftedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
"DRIFTED" is a common misspelling or typo for: drifter. |
Date "DRIFTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DRIFTED
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Driven along; driven into heaps.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Mining | A. A borehole, the course of which has deviated or departed from the intended direction or did not reach its intended target b. Inward-bulged casing that has been straightened by the use of a drift. See also: drift c. A horizontal underground passage parallel to or along a vein or related structure. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Simple past tense and past participle of drift. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: drift
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Antigenic drift | Antigenic drift refers to mutations in the influenza virus that cause changes in the virus's surface proteins over time. Those proteins (hemagglutinin and neuraminidase) are the causes of the body's immune reaction (i.e., they are antigens). Mutations occur almost yearly in the influenza virus, and while the change might not be a major one (which would then be called an antigenic shift), they are sufficient to lessen your body's ability to protect you with antibodies. For this reason, vaccination is required on a yearly basis, with the vaccine adjusted to the new antigen. In influenza, mutations happen frequently because the virus has no way of checking its RNA for errors. Antigenic drift has been responsible for heavier than normal flu seasons in the past, like the outbreak of influenza A Fujian(H3N2) in the 2003 - 2004 flu season. All influenza viruses experience some form of antigenic drift, but it's most pronounced in the influenza A virus. Antigenic drift is not the same as antigenic shift, which is a major change in the surface proteins on the virus. (references) | ||
| Continental drift | The gradual movement and formation of continents (as described by plate tectonics). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Drift (linguistics) | In linguistics, drift is the variation of speech. Edward Sapir gives the example "Whom did you see" which was grammatically correct, but it was replaced by "Who did you see". The common sense and the new grammatical structure required the change. "Whom" was avoided. "The woman whom you see" was replaced by "the woman you see." The drift of speech changes dialects and in long terms, it generates new languages. Although you can think, these changes have no direction, in general they have. For example, in the English language, there was the Great Vowel Shift. In future, there may be also new English dialects. (references) | ||
| Drift (plasma physics) | In the study of magnetized plasmas, the motion of the guiding centers of the particles is called a drift because it is (by assumption) slow compared to the gyration in the magnetic field. (references) | ||
| Drift (telecommunication) | In telecommunication, a drift is a comparatively long-term change in an attribute or value of a system or equipment operational parameter. (references) | ||
| Drift apart | Lose personal contact over time. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Drift away | Lose personal contact over time. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Drift diving | Drift diving is a type of recreational diving where the diver is transported by the currents caused by the tide or in a river. (references) | ||
| Drift epoch | (Geol.), the glacial epoch. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Drift ice | Masses of ice floating in the open sea. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: DRIFTED
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Lithium drifted germanium detector | Meteorology & Standards | A semiconductor detector that can be used for high-resolution gamma-ray spectrometry. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Lithium drifted p-i-n radiation detector | Physics | A lithium drifted p-i-n diode used as a radiation detector, at liquid nitrogen temperature, for leakage-current and thermal-noise reduction. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Lithium drifted semiconductor detector | Physics | A compensated semiconductor detector in which the compensated region is obtained by causing lithium ions to move through a P-type crystal under an applied electric field in such a way as to compensate the charge of the bound impurities. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: drift
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| DRIFT | English | Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopy | Physics | |
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