engelska-isländska översättning av drift
Definition av drift
- Movement; that which moves or is moved
- The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse
- A place along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side
- The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments
- A tool
- A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles
- The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene
- A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel
- A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler
- To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc
- To move haphazardly without any destination
- To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel
- To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body
- To drive into heaps
- To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps
- 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
- To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See
Exempel
- a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, etc
- genetic drift
- The boat drifted away from the shore
- The balloon was drifting in the breeze
- He drifted from town to town, never settling down
- This car tends to drift left at high speeds
- A current of wind drifts snow or sand
- Snow or sand drifts
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