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drifting   (TTS Sound)

The noun drifting has 1 sense

• drifting -- (aimless wandering from place to place)

The verb drift has 10 senses

• float, drift, be adrift, blow -- (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, err, drift -- (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, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond -- (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")


• drift -- (vary or move from a fixed point or course; "stock prices are drifting higher")


• freewheel, drift -- (live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely; "My son drifted around for years in California before going to law school")


• drift -- (move in an unhurried fashion; "The unknown young man drifted among the invited guests")


• drift -- (cause to be carried by a current; "drift the boats downstream")


• drift -- (drive slowly and far afield for grazing; "drift the cattle herds westwards")


• drift -- (be subject to fluctuation; "The stock market drifted upward")


• drift -- (be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current; "snow drifting several feet high"; "sand drifting like snow")

The adj drifting has 1 sense

• aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant -- (continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties")