drift

Các nghĩa

1. vật trôi dạt

   Anything driven at random.

   countable · physical · uncountable

   Some log perhaps upon the waters swam, a useless drift.

2. đống, khối (do gió hoặc nước đẩy dồn lại)

   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.

   countable · physical · uncountable

   a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, of plants, etc.

   Drifts of rising dust involve the sky.

   We […] got the brig a good bed in the rushing drift [of ice].

3. khoảng cách dòng chảy trôi trong một thời gian nhất định

   The distance through which a current flows in a given time.

   countable · physical · uncountable

4. đàn (gia súc, chim)

   The animals being moved in a drive, as of cattle, goats, horses, pigs or sheep.

   collective · countable · physical · uncountable

   cattle coming over the bridge (with their great drifts doing much damage to the high ways)

   ...traveling slowly, like a drift of horses

   Mind yourselves below; there's a drift of sheep coming down the road

5. trầm tích băng hà

   A group of birds moving together.

   collective · countable · physical · uncountable

   A drift of geese rose over the bank.

   a drift of ducks waddled in panic from her bare feet

   a drift of birds, wheeling flashing their white underwings

6. gỗ trôi dạt vào bờ

   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.

   countable · physical · uncountable

Dạng khác

• drifts plural