drift
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3.9
- noun
- /drɪft/
- Specialized
:
duna (acumulación)
- The snow had blown into wonderful drifts, like whorls on top of a lemon meringue pie.
- snow drifts
- drift ice
- large drifts
So it's just like this huge drift of that bold foliage.
- So it's just like this huge drift of that bold foliage.
- So I think that'll have some nice sparkle and it'll be good for the the drifts of snow.
Examples
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Sent him to school and found him buried 10-foot-deep in a snow drift.
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The storm has passed, leaving a fresh covering of powdery snow in drifts like sand dunes.
Fiction book (1993) -
The roads up the pass were closed, with drifts over twenty feet high.
Fiction book (1991) -
The North Atlantic Drift, it comes right in here fetches up all sorts of interesting things from all over the world.
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The blizzard brought the entire area to a standstill as heavy winds and drifts made all the roads impassable.
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I walked here all the way from Minsk, in Russia, in 20-foot snow drifts, 1,000 miles across Siberia.
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Azaleas grew there, and potentillas, with drifts of spring bulbs in the hough grass.
Fiction book (1990) -
Huge boulder outcrops dotted the expanse, drifts piled twenty feet high at their bases.
Fiction book (1990) -
After the storm, we encountered a massive snow drift blocking the road.
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The construction workers carefully cleared the drift of sand that had accumulated at the entrance of the mine.
Synonyms
16
7.2
A nearly flat tunnel in a mine for access and moving minerals
1
8.8
A nearly horizontal tunnel dug underground for miners to move through
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Etymology
Drift comes from an old Norse word meaning 'to drive' or 'be driven', so imagine wind 'driving' snow or sand into a heap; that's why a drift is a mass of material moved and piled up by wind or water.