drifting lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• borne up by or suspended in a liquid "the ship is still floating" "floating logs" "floating seaweed"
• continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another "a drifting double-dealer" "the floating population" "vagrant hippies of the sixties"
• aimless wandering from place to place
• lose personal contact over time "The two women, who had been roommates in college, drifted apart after they got married"
• be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current "snow drifting several feet high" "sand drifting like snow"
• be subject to fluctuation "The stock market drifted upward"
• drive slowly and far afield for grazing "drift the cattle herds westwards"
• cause to be carried by a current "drift the boats downstream"
• move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment "The gypsies roamed the woods" "roving vagabonds" "the wandering Jew" "The cattle roam across the prairie" "the laborers drift from one town to the next" "They rolled from town to town"
• be in motion due to some air or water current "The leaves were blowing in the wind" "the boat drifted on the lake" "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea" "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"