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drifting 音标拼音: [dr'ɪftɪŋ] adj. 漂浮的 漂浮的 drifting漂移 drifting adj 1: continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; " a drifting double- dealer"; " the floating population"; " vagrant hippies of the sixties" [ synonym: { aimless}, { drifting}, { floating}, { vagabond}, { vagrant}] n 1: aimless wandering from place to placeDrift \ 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. [ 1913 Webster] We drifted o' er the harbor bar. -- Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts. [ 1913 Webster] 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.] [ 1913 Webster] 67 Moby Thesaurus words for " drifting": ascending, axial, back, back- flowing, backward, circumforaneous, descending, discursive, divagatory, down- trending, downward, errant, flitting, floating, flowing, fluent, flying, footloose, footloose and fancy- free, fugitive, gadding, going, gypsy- like, gypsyish, gyrational, gyratory, landloping, meandering, migrational, migratory, mounting, nomad, nomadic, passing, plunging, progressive, rambling, ranging, reflowing, refluent, regressive, retrogressive, rising, roaming, rotary, rotational, rotatory, roving, running, rushing, shifting, sideward, sinking, soaring, straggling, straying, streaming, strolling, traipsing, transient, transitory, transmigratory, up- trending, upward, vagabond, vagrant, wandering
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