drift BrE *
drift geology

Many say he has not done enough to end the drift.

Went up on top of a drift 10 feet high.

Go in with me, and I will tell you my drift.

And the drift is almost to the top of the door.

I want you to understand the drift of our thinking.

Which I kind of had, but you get my drift.

For once you don't see the drift of my words.

I knew enough to get the drift of what he said.

The dead drift a lot around here, along with everything else.

In recent years, there has been a drift toward the center.

Could be a body, I think, but most likely is just a drift.

Some one might say to us, What is the drift of all this?

The drifts in front of our house are 4 to 5 feet high.

Given the drift of recent history, that job will be a difficult one.

It was an easy thing to let her mind drift.

"But how are we to get down there, even if you have cut through the drift?"

After a few minutes of conversation the man started toward the drift.

Once a drift gave way under me and I fell.

I just does the doing, if you catch my drift.

There's another one, but he kind of drifts by once in a while at night.

She didn't know what that might be, but caught his drift.

He began to get a bit of her drift, possibly.

As we watch, two more drift into the valley from the south.

But for the last few seasons, a sense of drift has set in.

No one will ever notice a drift of 4 hours in 2000 years.

Sale's local drift geology consists of sand and gravel deposited about 10,000 years ago, during the last ice age.

Owing to its relatively steep-sided profile the fell is largely free of drift geology.

The drift geology includes some gravel.

The local drift geology is mostly glacial boulder clay, as well as glacial sands and gravel.

The drift geology includes a layer of peat to the North and boulder clay and lake alluvium over the lower catchment zone.

Glacial tills and sands are the prominent geological features resulting in a relatively base-poor soil, characteristic of glacial drift geology.

This was formerly the preserve of geographers, who related the sites of villages and hamlets very closely to areas of drift geology, or the outpourings of abundant springs.

The maps display solid and drift geology, as well as the full range of geoenvironmental constraints that affect urban planning and redevelopment, such as bulk mineral extraction and undermining.