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  1. drifts

    Detached masses of soil and underwood torn off the shore by floods and floating about, often mistaken for rocks and dangers. Also, in ship-building, those parts where the sheer is raised, and the rails are cut off, ending with a scroll; as the drift of the quarter-deck, poop-deck, and forecastle.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of drifts in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of drifts in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of drifts in a Sentence

  1. Peter Maurer:

    Humanitarian work can in no case be criminalized, not in Hungary or anywhere else, i find it dangerous when a European country drifts in this direction.

  2. Bernard Fontana:

    I am French and a Polytechnician, so I am the proof that Holcim can be run despite the cultural differences between a Swiss and a French management style... But when a value drifts, that raises a governance problem.

  3. Ciaran Beggan:

    As it flows it creates an electronic current and that current makes a magnetic field -- which drifts with the hot runny core.

  4. Louis Aragon:

    The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.

  5. Rooma Mehra:

    Every love story needs a closure. If it is denied that, it drifts aimlessly between the earth and the sky like a ghost..

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