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driftAdit Ad"it, n. [L. aditus, fr. adire, ?aitum, to go to; ad +
ire to go.]
1. An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly
horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which
water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift
and tunnel.
2. Admission; approach; access. [R.]
Yourself and yours shall have Free adit. --Tennyson. Drift
Drift Drift, n.
1. (Phys. Geog.) One of the slower movements of oceanic
circulation; a general tendency of the water, subject to
occasional or frequent diversion or reversal by the wind;
as, the easterly drift of the North Pacific.
2. (A["e]ronautics) The horizontal component of the pressure
of the air on the sustaining surfaces of a flying machine.
The lift is the corresponding vertical component, which
sustains the machine in the air.
Drift
Drift Drift, v. t.
1. To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body. --J. H.
Newman.
2. To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or
sand.
3. (Mach.) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
Meaning of Drift from wikipedia
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Drift or
Drifts may
refer to:
Drift or ford (crossing) of a
river Drift (navigation),
difference between...
- The
Battle of Rorke's
Drift, also
known as the
Defence of Rorke's
Drift, was an
engagement in the Anglo-Zulu War. The
successful British defence of the...
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Drifting is a
driving technique where the
driver purposely oversteers, with loss of traction,
while maintaining control and
driving the car
through the...
- The
drift of the
Antarctic exploration vessel SY
Aurora was an
ordeal which lasted 312 days,
affecting the Ross Sea
party of Sir
Ernest Shackleton's Imperial...
- The Fast and the Furious:
Tokyo Drift is a 2006
action film
directed by
Justin Lin and
written by
Chris Morgan. It is a
standalone sequel to The Fast...
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drifting in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Drifting may
refer to:
Drifting (motorsport) Pipe
drift or
drifting,
measuring a pipe's
inner roundness...
-
modern take on funk-inspired hip hop. In the late 2010s, a
subgenre called drift phonk emerged in Russia,
distinguished by its
heavy use of cowbells, aggressive...
- "
Drift Away" is a song
written by
Mentor Williams in 1970 and
first recorded by
British singer Mike
Berry on his 1972
album Drift Away. A
version by John...
- Ice Age:
Continental Drift is a 2012
American animated adventure comedy film. The
sequel to Ice Age: Dawn of the
Dinosaurs (2009) and the
fourth in the...
-
Clock drift refers to
several related phenomena where a
clock does not run at
exactly the same rate as a
reference clock. That is,
after some time the...
