drift

drift

englanti

1. ajautuminen; ajelehtiminen

2. kinos, nietos

3. tuuliajo

Synonyymisanakirja: drift

drift

1. muuttua, karttua, kumuloitua, kasautua, kasaantua, keräytyä, kerääntyä, kokoontua, kertyä, akkumuloitua, ajautua, kinostua, laiduntaa, ajaa, uittaa.

Katso synonyymisanakirja

Käännökset: drift

drift suomeksi

viettää rentoa elämää, ajaa, ajautua

• ajautuminen

• kasa, kasaantuma, kasautuma

• lauma

• sorto, sortuma

• välys

• ajopuu

• ajelehtia, ajautua

• harhailla, hortoilla, kuljeskella

• ajautua

drift englanniksi

• puhekieltä Movement; that which moves or is moved.

• puhekieltä A driving; a violent movement.

• 1332, (w) (1332)

The dragon drew him self away with drift of his wings.

• course Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.

• (w) (c.1552-1616)

Our drift was south.

• That which is driven, forced, or urged along.

• (quote-book)

• Anything driven at random.

• (w) (1631-1700)

Some log(..)a useless drift.

• 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.

(ux)

• (w) (1688-1744)

Drifts of rising dust involve the sky.

• Kane

We got the brig a good bed in the rushing drift of ice.

• The distance through which a current flows in a given time.

• A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.

• (w) (1606-1661)

cattle coming over the bridge (with their great drift doing much damage to the high ways)

• A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the retreat of continental glaciers, such as that which buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys.

• 1867, E. Andrews, "Observations on the Glacial Drift beneath the bed of Lake Michigan," American Journal of Science and Arts, vol. 43, nos. 127-129, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yPzRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA75&dq=%22glacial+drift%22&as_brr=3 page 75:

It is there seen that at a distance from the valleys of streams, the old glacial drift usually comes to the surface, and often rises into considerable eminences.

• driftwood Driftwood included in flotsam washed up onto the beach.

• The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.

• (w) (1634–1716)

A bad man, being under the drift of any passion, will follow the impulse of it till something interpose.

• A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.

• The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.

• 1977, (w), (w), Penguin Classics, p. 316:

'Besides, you lack the brains to catch my drift. / If I explained you wouldn't understand.'

• (w) (1672-1719)

He has made the drift of the whole poem a compliment on his country in general.

• Sir (w) (1771-1832)

Now thou knowest my drift.

• puhekieltä The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.

(rfquotek)

• puhekieltä A tool.

• A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.

• A tool used to pack down the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.

• A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.

• puhekieltä A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.

• puhekieltä Movement.

• The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.

• The distance a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.

• The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.

• The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.

• The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.

• puhekieltä A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.

• puhekieltä To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.

• (quote-book)|chapter=11

• puhekieltä To move haphazardly without any destination.

• puhekieltä To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.

• {{quote-journal|date=January 15, 2011|author=Saj Chowdhury|work=BBC

• puhekieltä To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.

• puhekieltä To drive into heaps.

• puhekieltä To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.

• puhekieltä To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.

• puhekieltä To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.

• To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See (w).

• passion

• strong and sudden upwelling of anger: a fit

• violent tendency

• flock (of sheep or oxen)

• deviation of direction caused by wind: driftEnglish drift

• path along which cattle are driven

• snowdrift

• (l) ((l) / of)

• urge, instinct

• operation, management (singular only)

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