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Meaning of "driftage" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DRIFTAGE

driftage  [ˈdrɪftɪdʒ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DRIFTAGE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Driftage is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DRIFTAGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of driftage in the English dictionary

The first definition of driftage in the dictionary is the act of drifting. Other definition of driftage is matter carried along or deposited by drifting. Driftage is also the amount by which an aircraft or vessel has drifted from its intended course.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DRIFTAGE


advantage
ədˈvɑːntɪdʒ
cottage
ˈkɒtɪdʒ
disadvantage
ˌdɪsədˈvɑːntɪdʒ
footage
ˈfʊtɪdʒ
frontage
ˈfrʌntɪdʒ
graftage
ˈɡrɑːftɪdʒ
heritage
ˈhɛrɪtɪdʒ
high-voltage
ˈhaɪˌvəʊltɪdʒ
hostage
ˈhɒstɪdʒ
outage
ˈaʊtɪdʒ
percentage
pəˈsɛntɪdʒ
portage
ˈpɔːtɪdʒ
postage
ˈpəʊstɪdʒ
reportage
rɪˈpɔːtɪdʒ
shortage
ˈʃɔːtɪdʒ
vantage
ˈvɑːntɪdʒ
vintage
ˈvɪntɪdʒ
voltage
ˈvəʊltɪdʒ
waftage
ˈwɒftɪdʒ
weftage
ˈwɛftɪdʒ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DRIFTAGE

drier
dries
Driesch
driest
drift
drift anchor
drift ice
drift net
drift transistor
drift tube
drifted
drifter
drifting
driftingly
driftless
driftpin
driftwood
drifty
drill
drill down

WORDS THAT END LIKE DRIFTAGE

Armitage
backstage
centre stage
chantage
competitive advantage
etage
high voltage
holiday cottage
key stage
mess of pottage
montage
multistage
onstage
pilotage
plantage
sabotage
stage
the stage
wastage
wattage

Synonyms and antonyms of driftage in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «driftage» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DRIFTAGE

Find out the translation of driftage to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of driftage from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «driftage» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

漂流
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

DERIVA
570 millions of speakers

English

driftage
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बहाव
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

انجراف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

driftage
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Driftage
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রবাহতাড়িত বস্তু
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dérive
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Driftage
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Abdrift
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

漂流物
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

표류
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Driftage
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự trôi giạt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

driftage
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उतारा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sürüklenme mesafesi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Driftage
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Driftage
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

driftage
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

driftage
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

driftage
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

drift
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Driftage
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Driftage
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of driftage

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DRIFTAGE»

The term «driftage» is used very little and occupies the 154.801 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DRIFTAGE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «driftage» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «driftage» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about driftage

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRIFTAGE»

Discover the use of driftage in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to driftage and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Beloved: A Driftage of Love Lyrics (1918)
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series.
Ada Marie Kassimer, 2010
2
Borderland Farming: Possibilities and Limitations of Farming ...
The category of 'driftage' has been denned by Bakels.16 Driftage consists of particles that end up in a particular feature independently of the other remains in it. This definition is analogous to that of the Poisson distribution in statistics (fig. 4) .
Laura Immy Kooistra, 1996
3
Belov D: A Driftage of Love Lyrics...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Ada Marie Kassimer, 2011
4
The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London
The tidal driftage tends to extend the Dogger bank towards the N.E. Continued winds from the north-east, however, will stop this driftage, and force the sand into the NE. channel, and thus raise the “ bar,” so that at times it is scarcely passable '.
5
Grettir's Saga
When the storm ended the farmers went looking for driftage. There was a man called Thorstein who lived at Reykjaness. He found a whale drifted ashore out on the headland, at a place called Rif Skerries. It was a big finback, so he at once ...
Denton Fox, Hermann Pálsson, 1974
6
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
In a gun sight, the combination of a leaf having a vertical guide way and a guldeway to provide for driftage col lection, a carrier on said leaf comprising a part movable on and controlled by said vertical guldeway and a part movable on and ...
United States. Patent Office, 1908
7
Webster's II New College Dictionary
driftage. •. drogue. leisurely or sporadically from place to place, esp. with no particular goal. 4. s. To wander from a set course or point of attention : STRAY. b. To vary Itom ot oscillate randomly about a fixed setting, position, or mode of ...
Houghton Mifflin Company, Webster, 1999
8
Geological Magazine
I believe them to be of the same nature with the Lake Ridges of Nova Scotia described in my Acadian Geology,1 and that they have been produced by the expansion or driftage of the ice, which forms in the creeks in winter. They constitute a ...
9
Longman Anthology of Old English, Old Icelandic, and ...
During that time Óláfr had to leave the farm to look after the driftage on the beaches he owned. After he left Þuriðr called some of the servants and told them to accompany her. There were ten in all, including her infant daughter whom she took ...
Richard North, Joe Allard, Patricia Gillies, 2014
10
The Star Rover
If only I were articulate to paint in the frail medium of words what I see and know and possess incorporated in my consciousness of the mighty driftage of the races in the times before our present written history began! Yes, we had our ...
Jack London, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DRIFTAGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term driftage is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Japan group helps fund Big Island beach cleanups
In addition, HWF will host an international symposium in Hilo this December to continue the dialogue about marine debris, tsunami driftage, ... «West Hawaii Today, Jun 15»
2
Fix Underway for Halo: The Master Chief Collection Matchmaking …
@driftage its been a bit on and off for me since this comment, but its ... @driftage Yep, I have already beat the campaign on all the previous ... «GameSpot, Nov 14»
3
Reminder on Safety to Prevent Anchor Dragging
... type of vessel, the anchorage position should be near the edge of the anchorage and clear of any vessel on the predicted way of the driftage. «The Maritime Executive, Oct 14»
4
Rosneft-ExxonMobil successfully complete arctic research expedition
... installed at ice fields and icebergs to allow the constant monitoring of ice feature coordinates in order to determine driftage and trajectory. «Oil & Gas Technology, Jun 14»
5
Kwame Nkrumah - The CIA Connection (Part 11)
... given Western wobbling apprehension of Milton Obote's ideological driftage toward leftist politics (See Andrew Rice's book “The Teeth May ... «GhanaWeb, Apr 14»
6
Ucluelet gets $80000 to fund Japanese tsunami debris cleanup
... to return recovered personal or sensitive driftage material to the people of Japan,” said Karla Robison, Ucluelet's manager of environmental ... «Globalnews.ca, Mar 14»
7
70 Japanese students volunteer to help clean Canada's shores of …
... to the West coast of Canada to help clean up the still-increasing driftage that is washing up on its shores. Headed by fourth-year Ritsumeikan ... «ROCKETNEWS24, Feb 14»
8
Path of Japan Tsunami Debris Predicted by Computers
Half a year later, a Russian ship, the STS Pallada, spotted the first evidence of tsunami driftage in the Pacific Oce. The crew was on a ... «LiveScience.com, Feb 14»
9
Tsunami Debris Circles Pacific Ocean
This is an image of location of different types of tsunami driftage on Feb. 20, 2014. Orange regions show where items of high boyancy, or high ... «Net Newsledger, Feb 14»
10
Castaway fisherman's drift matches currents and winds
“When the devastating tsunami happened in 2011 in Japan, our model was adapted to track different types of tsunami driftage by adding ... «UH System Current News, Feb 14»

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