drifty

To be carried along by currents of air or water: a balloon drifting eastward; as the wreckage drifted toward shore.

To proceed or move unhurriedly and smoothly: drifting among the party guests.

To move leisurely or sporadically from place to place, especially without purpose or regular employment: a day laborer, drifting from town to town.

1. To wander from a set course or point of attention; stray.

2. To vary from or oscillate randomly about a fixed setting, position, or mode of operation.

To be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of a current: snow drifting to five feet.

To cause to be carried in a current: drifting the logs downstream.

To pile up in banks or heaps: Wind drifted the loose straw against the barn.

Western U.S. To drive (livestock) slowly or far afield, especially for grazing.

The act or condition of drifting.

Something moving along in a current of air or water.

A bank or pile, as of sand or snow, heaped up by currents of air or water.

Geology Rock debris transported and deposited by or from ice, especially by or from a glacier.

1. A general trend or tendency, as of opinion. See Synonyms at tendency.

2. General meaning or purport; tenor: caught the drift of the conversation.

3. A gradual change in position.

4. A gradual deviation from an original course, model, method, or intention.

5. Variation or random oscillation about a fixed setting, position, or mode of behavior.

6. A tool for ramming or driving something down.

7. A tapered steel pin for enlarging and aligning holes.

8. A horizontal or nearly horizontal passageway in a mine running through or parallel to a vein.

9. A secondary mine passageway between two main shafts or tunnels.

1. A gradual change in position.

2. A gradual deviation from an original course, model, method, or intention.

3. Variation or random oscillation about a fixed setting, position, or mode of behavior.

4. A tool for ramming or driving something down.

5. A tapered steel pin for enlarging and aligning holes.

6. A horizontal or nearly horizontal passageway in a mine running through or parallel to a vein.

7. A secondary mine passageway between two main shafts or tunnels.

A gradual change in the output of a circuit or amplifier.

The rate of flow of a water current.

1. A tool for ramming or driving something down.

2. A tapered steel pin for enlarging and aligning holes.

3. A horizontal or nearly horizontal passageway in a mine running through or parallel to a vein.

4. A secondary mine passageway between two main shafts or tunnels.

1. A horizontal or nearly horizontal passageway in a mine running through or parallel to a vein.

2. A secondary mine passageway between two main shafts or tunnels.

A drove or herd, especially of swine. See Synonyms at flock¹.