Drifts Synonyms and Antonyms

To put into a disordered pile
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. stacks
  2. piles
  3. mounds
  4. lumps
  5. hills
  6. heaps
A tunnel following a vein of ore
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. subways
To pass smoothly, quietly, and undisturbed on or as if on a slippery surface
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. slides
  2. coasts
To move along with or be carried away by the action of water
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. washes
  2. floats
A general tendency to change (as of opinion)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. purports
  2. objects
  3. trends
  4. imports
  5. tenors
  6. burdens
  7. amounts
  8. intentions
  9. substances
  10. movements
A force that moves something along
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. impetuses
  2. piles
  3. tides
  4. surges
  5. streams
  6. rushes
  7. masses
  8. fluxes
  9. flows
  10. floods
  11. spates
  12. currents
  13. banks
Wander from a direct course or at random
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. errs
  2. strays
A group of things gathered haphazardly
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. stacks
  2. tumbles
  3. shocks
  4. piles
  5. mounds
  6. messes
  7. masses
  8. hills
  9. heaps
  10. cumuli
  11. banks
  12. mountains
A general trend or tendency, as of opinion.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. tendencies

Words Related to Drifts

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Drifts Sentence Examples

  • In these very hot drifts the fatality was large.

  • The second branch proceeds north-westwards towards the West Indies, where it mingles with the waters of the northern equatorial; and the two drifts, blocked by the

  • Sapphire is widely distributed through the gold-bearing drifts of Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, but the blue colour of the Australian stones is usually dark, and it is notable that green tints are not infrequent.

  • Iridosmine occurs commonly with gold or tin in alluvial drifts.

  • As the sinking of shafts or the driving of narrow entries or drifts is expensive, and as the mineral extracted rarely pays more than a small fraction of the cost, it is usual to plan this exploratory work so that the openings made shall serve some useful purpose later.

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