The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
Driftwood included in flotsam washed up onto the beach.
The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
Slow, cumulative change.
A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
In New Forest National Park, UK, the bi-annual round-up of wild ponies in order to be sold.
A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the retreat of continental glaciers, such as that which buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys.
A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.
A tool used to insert or extract a removable pin made of metal or hardwood, for the purpose of aligning and/or securing two pieces of material together.
The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
A tool used to pack down the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to obloid projectiles.
Minor deviation of audio or video playback from its correct speed.
The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene.
The distance a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
Anything driven at random.
A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
To move haphazardly without any destination.
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 Drifting (motorsport).
To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
The defensive area that a player can cover.
A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
An area for practicing shooting at targets.
The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.
The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).
The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
An area for military training or equipment testing.
A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.
Selection, array.
An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.
To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
To classify.
Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
To form a line or a row.
To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
To rove over or through.
To determine the range to a target.
To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order.
To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.