drifting : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: drifting	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for drifting
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
drifting adj continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties" Synonym(s): aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant n aimless wandering from place to place
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drift \Drift\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drifted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Drifting}.] 1. To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east. We drifted o'er the harbor bar. -- Coleridge. 2. To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts. 3. (mining) 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. [U.S.]