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Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?
David R. Brower

Meaning of "drifting" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DRIFTING

drifting  [ˈdrɪftɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DRIFTING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Drifting 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 DRIFTING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Drifting

Drifting may refer to: ▪ Drifting ▪ Pipe drift or drifting, measuring a pipe's inner roundness...

Definition of drifting in the English dictionary

The definition of drifting in the dictionary is accumulation.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DRIFTING


antishoplifting
ˌæntɪˈʃɒplɪftɪŋ
crofting
ˈkrɒftɪŋ
downshifting
ˈdaʊnˌʃɪftɪŋ
grafting
ˈɡrɑːftɪŋ
powerlifting
ˈpaʊəˌlɪftɪŋ
rafting
ˈrɑːftɪŋ
shafting
ˈʃɑːftɪŋ
shifting
ˈʃɪftɪŋ
shoplifting
ˈʃɒpˌlɪftɪŋ
uplifting
ʌpˈlɪftɪŋ
weightlifting
ˈweɪtˌlɪftɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DRIFTING

driest
drift
drift anchor
drift ice
drift net
drift transistor
drift tube
driftage
drifted
drifter
driftingly
driftless
driftpin
driftwood
drifty
drill
drill down
drill pipe
drill press
drill sergeant

WORDS THAT END LIKE DRIFTING

acting
blackwater rafting
camp-drafting
computing
connecting
consulting
contrasting
cutting
dating
eating
exciting
existing
fighting
frosting
heating
hunting
interesting
lighting
skin grafting
whitewater rafting

Synonyms and antonyms of drifting in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DRIFTING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «drifting» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of drifting

Translation of «drifting» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DRIFTING

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

Translator English - Chinese

漂流
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la deriva
570 millions of speakers

English

drifting
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बहती
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الانجراف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

дрейфующих
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

à deriva
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

drifting
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dérive
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hanyut
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

driften
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

漂流
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

표류
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Drifting
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trôi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

drifting
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बहुरंगी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sürüklenen
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

alla deriva
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

drifting
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дрейфуючих
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

derivă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παρασύρονται
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dryf
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

drifting
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

drivende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of drifting

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DRIFTING»

The term «drifting» is very widely used and occupies the 18.217 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DRIFTING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «drifting» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «drifting» 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 drifting

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10 QUOTES WITH «DRIFTING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word drifting.
1
Dido Armstrong
The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.
2
Sean Astin
A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn't get hit by a bus.
3
David R. Brower
Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?
4
Eleanor Catton
I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one another.
5
Eugene Cernan
Some astronauts describe the routine flushing of urine into space, where the freezing temperatures turn the droplets into a cloud of bright, drifting crystals, as being among the most amazing sights they saw on an entire voyage.
6
Jane Fonda
Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.
7
Glen Hansard
The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.
8
Elizabeth Hardwick
The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.
9
Graham Hawkes
One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.
10
Douglas Hurd
It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRIFTING»

Discover the use of drifting in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to drifting and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Drifting: Sideways from Japan to America
For the veteran drifting fan, this book is the first illustrated book on the latest motorsport to conquer the world.
Antonio Alvendia, 2006
2
How to Drift: The Art of Oversteer
This book even includes a budget drift car build-up with detailed suspension, chassis, and engine modifications that will help you turn your economy car into a drift machine— on top of that, there’ s a chapter detailing the finer ...
Paul Morton, 2006
3
Drifting Together: The Political Economy of Canada-US ...
"This is one of the best accounts of Canadian-American relations to appear in many, many years." - Thomas Keating, University of Alberta
John N. McDougall, 2006
4
Drifting House
The tales set in America reveal the immigrants' unmoored existence, playing out in cramped apartments and Koreatown strip malls, from the abandoned wife in 'A Temporary Marriage' who enters into a sham marriage to find her kidnapped ...
Krys Lee, 2012
5
Drifting on Alien Winds: Exploring the Skies and Weather of ...
From the Soviet Venus balloons to the advanced studies of blimps and airplanes for the atmospheres of Mars and Titan, Drifting on Alien Winds surveys the many creative and often wacky ideas for exploring alien skies.
Michael Carroll, 2011
6
Drifting: Architecture and Migrancy
Such flows seem to pressurize, breach and sometimes even disaggregate the places we always imagined to be distinctive and stable. This book is focussed on the interaction of two elements within this contemporary situation.
Stephen Cairns, 2004
7
Drifting on a Read: Jazz as a Model for Writing
Jarrett examines their work and the work of others who have brought jazz into language, pushing "interpretation" into the realm of "invention."
Michael Jarrett, 1999
8
Drifting Continents and Shifting Theories
This innovative book uses the story of how a modern science achieved its present shape and focus to introduce the question of the nature of scientific change and its philosophical analysis.
Homer Eugene LeGrand, 1988
9
Drifting South
Shady is the town where I grew up in every way a young man could, where I saw every kind of good and bad there is to see.
Charles Davis, 2009
10
Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay, and Coming of Age ...
A portrait of gay youth of color captures the harsh realities of their lives in urban New York City, including the wide array of social ills these "at-risk" adolescents confront, as well as the dangers they face in their quest for life's ...
Kai Wright, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DRIFTING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term drifting is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Drifting Is Not A Motorsport
I can safely say if it wasn't for drifting, and the Irish drift community in ... Drifting has played a huge part in my career and allowed me to learn the ... «Speedhunters, Jul 15»
2
Wearside man's driving ban after video posted on social networking …
He was captured on camera demonstrating 'drifting' to his friends at 5am on the A686 near Hartside Summit, last August. The video was posted ... «Sunderland Echo, Jul 15»
3
Pope's South America Trip Aims To Champion Poor, Reclaim Those …
It's part of a larger strategy, experts say, to drive drifting Catholics back into the fold and echo the themes of social justice that have been a ... «International Business Times, Jul 15»
4
A Scooter which can do extreme drifting?
This guy doing power drift on his Yamaha TMAX 2013 going through streets like a pro, drifting and playing in-between traffic on his tough, ... «On Cars India, Jul 15»
5
Smoke drifting south from Canadian wildfires continues to linger …
DENVER — Haze from smoke drifting south from wildfires burning in Canada continues to linger over Colorado. Smoke advisories have been ... «The Tribune, Jul 15»
6
'Drifting' driver blasted by Carlisle judge for crass stupidity
Vladimir Lohin, 25, was brought to justice after a video of his sideways “drifting” manoeuvre was posted on Facebook – and then shown to ... «News & Star, Jul 15»
7
Wildfire smoke drifting across Manitoba, health officials warn
The skies are going to be smoky again over much of Manitoba in the coming days, thanks to forest fires here and in Saskatchewan, provincial ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
8
Search for floating body in Deer Creek resumes
... Department of Natural Resources conservation officers resumed their search Tuesday for a body reportedly spotted drifting down Deer Creek ... «Journal and Courier, Jul 15»
9
FTSE drifting on Greece uncertainty
THE London market struggled for direction today as Greece prepares for yet more crunch debt talks with its creditors in the wake of its No vote. «the Irish News, Jul 15»
10
VIDEO: Drifting car strikes 2 people, row of cars in Whittier canyon
A witness told Eyewitness News that he and other people at the scene are part of a drifting team. Drifting is a driving technique where the driver ... «KABC-TV, Jul 15»

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