Sail vs Drift - What's the difference?
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(nautical) A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along. The sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars and ropes.
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(uncountable) The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use this power for travel or transport.
A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.
(dated) A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft. Plural sail .
The blade of a windmill.
A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
(fishing) A sailfish.
(paleontology) an outward projection of the
Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.
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To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by steam or other power.
To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
To set sail; to begin a voyage.
To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
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To move briskly.
(label) Movement; that which moves or is moved.
# (label) A driving; a violent movement.
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# Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
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# That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
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# 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.
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# The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
# A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
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# 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.
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# Driftwood included in flotsam washed up onto the beach.
The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
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A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
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(architecture) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
(label) A tool.
# A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
# A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.
(label) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
(label) Movement.
# The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
# The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
# The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
# The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
# The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
(label) A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
(label) To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
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(label) To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
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(label) To drive into heaps.
(label) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See .
Sail is a related term of drift.
As a noun sail
is salt.As a verb drift is
drifting.sail
English
(wikipedia sail)Etymology 1
From (etyl) 'to cut'. More at saw.Noun
(en noun)- When we have laugh'd to see the sails conceive / And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind;
- Let's go for a sail .
- Twenty sail were in sight.
- We caught three sails today.
- Like an eagle soaring / To weather his broad sails .
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* balloon sail * by sail * drag sail * dragon sail * point of sail * sailback * sailboard * sailboat * sailcloth * sailer * sailfish * sailing * studding sail * set sail * take the wind out of someone's sails * topsail * working sailEtymology 2
(etyl) , cognate to earlier Middle Low German segelen and its descendant Low German sailen.Verb
(en verb)- We sail for Australia tomorrow.
- As is a winged messenger of heaven, / When he bestrides the lazy pacing clouds, / And sails upon the bosom of the air.
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Derived terms
* sail close to the winddrift
English
Noun
(en noun)- The dragon drew him [self] away with drift of his wings.
- Our drift was south.
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.
- Some loga useless drift .
- Drifts of rising dust involve the sky.
- We got the brig a good bed in the rushing drift [of ice].
- cattle coming over the bridge (with their great drift doing much damage to the high ways)
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- It is there seen that at a distance from the valleys of streams, the old glacial drift usually comes to the surface, and often rises into considerable eminences.
- A bad man, being under the drift of any passion, will follow the impulse of it till something interpose.
- 'Besides, you lack the brains to catch my drift . / If I explained you wouldn't understand.'
- He has made the drift of the whole poem a compliment on his country in general.
- Now thou knowest my drift .
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Derived terms
* driftage * driftal * drift-anchor * drift-bolt * drift-current * drift ice * driftland * driftless * drift-mining * drift-net * drift-sail * driftway * driftweed * driftwood * driftyVerb
(en verb)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.}}
Man City 4-3 Wolves, passage=Midway through the half, Argentine Tevez did begin to drift inside in order to exert his influence but by this stage Mick McCarthy's side had gone 1-0 up and looked comfortable.}}