drifting

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Moving aimlessly or at the mercy of external forces.

   “The drifting seaweed went wherever the currents carried it.”

2. sıfat Without direction, focus, or goal.

   “[Lionel] Johnson was stern by nature, strong by intellect, and always, I think, deliberately picked his company, but [Ernest] Dowson seemed gentle, affectionate, drifting.”

3. isim The act by which something drifts.

   “True, there had been some heavy falls of snow and some of the roads had become blocked, while north of Inverness there was drifting that held up traffic here and there, but things were no worse than are expected in January.”

4. isim That which drifts.

   “[W]ith hollow eyes / Many all day in dazzling river stood, / To take the rich-ored driftings of the flood.”

5. isim A driving technique where the driver intentionally oversteers, causing loss of traction in the rear wheels, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner.
6. fiil present participle and gerund of drift