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drift [drift] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
drift [drift]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: accumulation
Synonyms: alluvion, bank, batch, bunch, bundle, clump, cluster, deposit, heap, hill, lot, mass, mound, mountain, parcel, pile, set, shock, stack
Main Entry: drift
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: move aimlessly
Synonyms: accumulate, aim, amass, amble, be carried along, coast, dance, draw near, flicker, flit, flitter, float, flow, flutter, gad, gallivant*, gather, go with the tide, go-that-a-way, gravitate, hover, kick around, linger, malinger, meander, mosey, muck, ride, sail, saunter, scud, skim, slide, stray, stroll, tend, waft, wander, wash*
Antonyms: decide, direct, guide, set
Main Entry: amble
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: walk casually
Synonyms: ankle, boogie, dawdle, drift, gander, hoof it, loiter, meander, mosey, percolate*, ramble, sashay, saunter, stroll, toddle, wander
Antonyms: run
Example Sentences
  • In further proof that downtown night life continues to drift north, three.
  • Obviously more complicated than that, but you get the drift.
  • Policy will drift as a result, with little progress battling corruption, inequality and unemployment.
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Main Entry: aptitude
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: inclination
Synonyms: bent, disposition, drift, leaning, predilection, proclivity, proneness, propensity, tendency
Notes: aptitude and attitude derive from Latin aptitudo 'fitness,' the first through French, the second through a French borrowing of Italian attitudine
Antonyms: disinclination, inaptitude, skillessness
Main Entry: buoy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: floating device
Synonyms: beacon, drift, float, guide, marker, signal
Main Entry: coast
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: glide along without much effort
Synonyms: cruise, drift, float, freewheel, get by, ride on current, sail, skate, slide, smooth along, taxi
Main Entry: cruise
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: sail
Synonyms: boat, coast, drift, fare, gad, gallivant, go, hie, jaunt, journey, keep steady pace, meander, navigate, pass, proceed, push on, repair, travel, voyage, wander about, wend
Main Entry: current
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: flow of something, usually water
Synonyms: course, draught, drift, ebb and flow, flood, flux, jet, juice, progression, river, run, rush, spate, stream, tidal motion, tide
Main Entry: definition
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: description
Synonyms: analogue, annotation, answer, characterization, clarification, clue, comment, commentary, cue, delimitation, delineation, demarcation, denotation, determination, diagnosis, drift, elucidation, exemplification, explanation, explication, exposition, expounding, fixing, formalization, gloss, individuation, interpretation, key, outlining, rationale, rendering, rendition, representation, settling, signification, solution, statement of meaning, terminology, translation
Antonyms: ambiguity, nonsense, vagueness
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