DRIFT

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drift I. substantiv

1. mişcare, deplasare;

the drift of labour into the towns deplasarea braţelor de muncă spre oraşe.

2. curs curent, scurgere.

3. (av., mar.) derivaţie; derivă (de curent).

4. (mine) deviaţie (a unui puţ de sondă).

5. tendinţă, intenţie; sens general, curs firesc, înţeles, sens;

the drift of the speech sensul cuvântării;

I don’t understand your drift nu înţeleg unde vrei să ajungi / unde baţi.

6. pasivitate;

the policy of drift metoda de a lăsa lucrurile să-şi urmeze singure cursul.

7. cădere; rafală;

a drift of rain o rafală de ploaie.

8. (geol.) teren, bloc eratic;

river drift aluviune;

glacial drift morenă.

9. morman, maldăr, îngrămădire (de zăpadă, nisip, frunze etc.).

10. plasă, mreajă.

11. (mine) galerie, breşă orizontală.

12. (tehn. ) poanson; mandrină; alezor.

13. v. driftage (2).

14. (mil.) derivă.

drift II. verb A. intranzitiv

1. a fi purtat (în voia curentului), a fi dus (de vânt, de apă), a fi în derivă.

2. (despre zăpadă, nisip etc.) a se aduna (în) grămezi.

3. to drift along a hoinări;

to drift apart a se risipi, a se împrăştia; a dispărea (treptat treptat) din vedere;

to drift around a se plimba;

to drift into a se lăsa târât în, a fi antrenat în;

to drift into war a fi atras în război.

drift II. verb B. tranzitiv

1. a lăsa să plutească, a da drumul (cu dat.) pe apă.

2. a îngrămădi, a aduna.

3. (tehn.) a găuri (metalul); a lărgi (o gaură în metal); a perfora.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

And, so nicely had he made his calculation, we drifted fairly down upon it, so that nothing remained to do but hook the tackles to either end and hoist it aboard.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

"One drift took me up to the waist; happily the snow is quite soft yet."

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I saw the door move, and the snow drift in.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Laurie made no effort of any kind, but just let himself drift along as comfortably as possible, trying to forget, and feeling that all women owed him a kind word because one had been cold to him.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Small or microscopic organisms, including algae and protozoan, that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water, especially at or near the surface, and serve as food for fish and other larger organisms.

(Plankton, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

But Mrs. Dashwood began shortly to give over every hope of the kind, and to be convinced, from the general drift of his discourse, that his assistance extended no farther than their maintenance for six months at Norland.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

The asteroid's loops around Earth drift a little ahead or behind from year to year, but when they drift too far forward or backward, Earth's gravity is just strong enough to reverse the drift and hold onto the asteroid so that it never wanders farther away than about 100 times the distance of the moon.

(Small Asteroid Is Earth's Constant Companion, NASA)

I did not quite like it, and thought it better not to keep her mind on the subject, so we drifted on to other subjects, and Lucy was like her old self again.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

As before, we drifted down upon it.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

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