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(verb) be driven or carried along |
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Synonyms: waft |
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Related Words: go, locomote, move, travel |
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(noun) (mining) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein" |
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Synonyms: gallery, heading |
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Related Words: passageway |
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(noun) general meaning or tenor: "caught the drift of the conversation" |
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Synonyms: purport |
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Related Words: strain, tenor |
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(noun) a general tendency as of opinion: "not openly liberal but that is the tendency of the book" |
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Synonyms: trend |
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Related Words: disposition, inclination, tendency |
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(noun) something heaped up by the wind or current |
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Related Words: drumlin, matter, snowdrift, substance |
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(noun) a force that moves something along |
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Synonyms: impetus, impulsion |
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Related Words: force |
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(noun) the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane) |
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Related Words: action, activity, natural action, natural process |
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(noun) a process of linguistic change over a period of time |
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Related Words: linguistic process |
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(verb) be in motion due to some air current; "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake" |
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Synonyms: be adrift, blow, float |
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Related Words: go, locomote, move, stream, tide, travel |
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(verb) live irresponsibly or freely |
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Synonyms: freewheel |
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Related Words: exist, live, subsist, survive |
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(verb) wander from a direct course or at random |
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Synonyms: err, stray |
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Related Words: go, locomote, move, travel |
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(verb) wander about aimlessly; "The gypsies roamed the woods" |
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Synonyms: cast, ramble, range, roam, rove, stray, swan, vagabond, wander |
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Related Words: gad, gallivant, go, jazz around, locomote, maunder, move, travel |
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