Anything driven at random.
Used in a Sentence
drifts
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for drifts.
Editorial note
Clojure code also drifts right, but its just a matter of training your brain to interpret it.
Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
Anything driven at random.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of drifts gathered in one view.
A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.
The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for drifts.
noun
Anything driven at random.
noun
A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.
noun
The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
noun
A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
Example sentences
Clojure code also drifts right, but its just a matter of training your brain to interpret it.
Does the fact that this article drifts up on the HN front page not inherently make the submission worth while?
Also the phonetic drifts (rhotacism) that push languages away from each other, when revealed, help to recognize patterns that were once obscure.
We also live in a world where once popular software, particularly freely available software, sometimes drifts into borderline malware territory over time.
Don't worry if your mind drifts off, that's not a sign of failure.
Every night I try to be in bed for 10:30pm, sometimes this drifts to and beyond 11 (but not often).
It sometimes drifts into a feeling of betrayal, since she never talked about it before we were committed to each other.
I disagree with Sustrik's assumption that software drifts to become a collection of non-reusable components.
Sometimes dust sparkles slightly as it drifts in the air.
She then drifts by if you engage the kids.
Your mind drifts to thoughts totally unrelated to boxing.
Actually the synodic month is closer to 365/12 days than to 28 days, so the 13-month calendar drifts slightly faster with respect to phases of the moon.
Quote examples
Even in equator, "midday" drifts by several minutes as the year goes by.
Because no one has solved this problem, we all live in dune-drifts of lousy passwords." No.
And if a nation drifts into oligopoly and a weak well-managed "democracy lite" the pantywaist Hobbesians will defend that situation by saying "but but but...
I see two potential sources for error: a 1s correction/drift proving to be "too much" for synchronization in a system that typically sees corrections or drifts far smaller, or 2.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use drifts in a sentence?
Clojure code also drifts right, but its just a matter of training your brain to interpret it.
What does drifts mean?
Anything driven at random.
What part of speech is drifts?
drifts is commonly used as noun.