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— English words —

• drift n. (Physical) Movement; that which moves or is moved.
• drift n. The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
• drift n. A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
• drift n. The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention;…
• drift n. (Architecture) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
• drift n. (Handiwork) A tool.
• drift n. A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to obloid projectiles.
• drift n. (Uncountable) Minor deviation of audio or video playback from its correct speed.
• drift n. (Uncountable, film) The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper…
• drift n. (Mining) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
• drift n. (Nautical) Movement.
• drift n. (Cricket) A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
• drift n. Slow, cumulative change.
• drift n. In New Forest National Park, UK, the bi-annual round-up of wild ponies in order to be sold.
• drift v. (Intransitive) To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
• drift v. (Intransitive) To move haphazardly without any destination.
• drift v. (Intransitive) To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
• drift v. (Transitive) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
• drift v. (Transitive) To drive into heaps.
• drift v. (Intransitive) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
• drift v. (Mining, US) To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence…
• drift v. (Transitive, engineering) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
• drift v. (Automotive) To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry…

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Danish
  • drift n. (Uncountable) operation, running (of a company, a service or a mashine).
  • drift n. (Uncountable) service (of public transport).
  • drift n. (Psychology) drive, urge, desire.
  • drift n. (Uncountable) drift (slow movement in the water or the air).
  • drift n. Drove (driven animals).
• Icelandic
  • drift n. Snowdrift.
• Norwegian bokmål - Norwegian nynorsk
  • drift n. Operation (av / of).
• Norwegian nynorsk
  • drift n. Drift (being carried by currents).
  • drift n. Drive (motivation).
• Swedish
  • drift n. Urge, instinct.
  • drift n. Operation, management (singular only).

— English words, defined in French —

• drift n. Mouvement.
• drift n. Gué.
• drift n. (Sens figuré) Sous-entendu, ce que l’on veut dire, intention. (précision/formulation de la définition…
• drift n. (Industrie minière) Galerie suivant une veine ou une formation rocheuse.
• drift v. Dériver.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• drift s. Movimiendo a la deriva.
• drift s. Movimiento debido a la fuerza de los vientos o las corrientes de agua.
• drift s. Oceanografía Corriente de agua que avanza de 16 a 20 km por día.
• drift s. Náutica Velocidad de las corrientes oceanicas, medida en nudos.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• drift s. Moto, inclinazione, deriva.

— In German —

• drift V. 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs driften.
• Drift S. Die durch den Wind verursachte Bewegung des Wassers.
• Drift S. Das durch Wind oder Strömung verursachte Treiben von etwas auf dem Wasser.
• Drift S. Geologie, kurz für: Kontinentaldrift.
• Drift S. Messtechnik: eine langsame Änderung eines Merkmals eines…

— In Dutch —

• drift n. Sterke en plotselinge opwelling van woede bijv. agressiedrift.
• drift n. Heftige neiging bijv. bekeringsdrift, broeddrift.
• drift n. (Scheepvaart) door wind of stroming veroorzaakte afwijking…
• drift n. Groep dieren bijv. zwanendrift.
• drift n. Weg waarlangs dieren gedreven wordt, eendendrift, schapendrift.
• drift n. (Verouderd) (Kaapkolonie) een doorwaadbare plaats waar het…
• drift w. Enkelvoud tegenwoordige tijd van driften#gebiedende wijs van driften.

— In French —

• drift n.m. (Glaciologie) Nom anglais du terrain glaciaire.
• drift n.m. (Automobile) (Anglicisme) Dérapage contrôlé.

186 English words from 34 English definitions

abutments accumulate act adit aimed aimed␣at air along and animals annual any arch Architecture argument ascertaining audio Automotive ball being between bi-annual body bowled bowler carried carry causing change company conduct control correct course Cricket crossing cumulative currents cut desire destination deviate deviation direction drift drifting driftway drive driven drives Drove engineering enlarge enough entry especially etc examine film fire floating for force ford Forest from gallery gently gradually Handiwork haphazardly heaps hole horizontal impels impulse influence in␣order in␣order␣to instinct intended intention into Intransitive its ledge like line line␣of␣fire loss maintaining make management Mining Minor motion motivation move moved movement moves National National␣Park Nautical New New␣Forest object obloid of␣a of␣an only operation opposite opposite␣side order overpowering oversteer Park passage peculiar performer permit Physical place playback ponies presence pressure projectiles proper Psychology public public␣transport purpose pushed river round round␣up running service shaft shallow shape side sideways singular situation slow slowly small Snowdrift sold speed spin spin␣bowler subterranean tendency that the their through thrust tool to␣the traction Transitive transport travel tunnel Uncountable unintentionally upon urge vault vehicle vein video water when where which while wild wind with without

29 English words from 24 foreign definitions

a␣la auf Automobile Das dem den des Die dire door een formation formulation het intention las Moto Nom Person que Sens Singular Sous terrain van Verbs Wasser Wassers wind

1 foreign word from 34 English definitions

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94 foreign words from 24 foreign definitions

afwijking agua Aktiv a␣la␣deriva a␣la␣fuerza Änderung anglais Anglicisme avanza Bewegung ce␣que contrôlé Corriente corrientes debido définition de␣la Dérapage deriva Dériver día dieren driften durch eine eines Enkelvoud entendu etwas figuré fuerza für Galerie gebiedende gebiedende␣wijs gedreven Geologie glaciaire Glaciologie Groep Gué Heftige Imperativ inclinazione Industrie Industrie␣minière kurz langsame l’on los medida Merkmals Messtechnik minière Mouvement Movimiento Náutica neiging nudos Oceanografía oder opwelling plaats por Präsens précision rocheuse schapendrift Scheepvaart Sens␣figuré Sous-entendu Sterke stroming Strömung suivant tegenwoordige␣tijd tijd Treiben une veine Velocidad veroorzaakte Verouderd verursachte veut vientos von waar waarlangs Weg wijs woede wordt zwanendrift

77 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

drifts drifty drifted drifter driftin' driftage drifters driftest drifteth driftful drift␣ice driftier driftily drifting driftlet driftnet drift␣net drift␣off driftpin driftway driftages driftbolt driftfish driftiest driftings driftland driftless driftlets driftling drift␣mine driftnets drift␣nets drift␣park driftpins drift␣sail drift␣seed drifts␣off driftways driftweed driftwind driftwood drift␣apart driftbolts drifted␣off driftiness driftingly driftlands driftlings drift␣meter drift␣mines +27 words

21 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

indrifts updrifts exodrifts indrifted mid-drifts dedrifting downdrifts indrifting overdrifts raindrifts snowdrifts snow␣drifts spindrifts overdrifted snowdrifted spoondrifts spoon-drifts underdrifts overdrifting genetic␣drifts glacial␣drifts

37 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

adrift bedrift dedrift indrift updrift exodrift mid-drift Seadrift sea-drift downdrift overdrift raindrift run␣adrift set␣adrift snowdrift snow␣drift spindrift stardrift wage␣drift cast␣adrift spoondrift spoon-drift spraydrift underdrift Darwin␣drift get␣the␣drift channel␣drift concept␣drift genetic␣drift glacial␣drift longshore␣drift caught␣one's␣drift catches␣one's␣drift continental␣drift instinctive␣drift catching␣one's␣drift catch␣someone's␣drift

7 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

DRI D.R.I. if't rif Rif RIF rift

2 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

fir FIR

8 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

adrift drifts drifty fit␣rod Friedt rifted Tardif trifid

7 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

dirt DIRT frit FTIR RFID rift tri-D

4 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

draft dript druft grift

One lipogram (New word found when removing only one letter.)

rift

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