Drifting vs Driftling - What's the difference?
drifting | driftling |
Moving aimlessly or at the mercy of external forces.
(motorsports) A driving technique where the driver intentionally oversteers, causing loss of traction in the rear wheels, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner.
The act by which something drifts.
* 2009 , Mazo de la Roche, Whiteoak Heritage (page 204)
One who is carried about, drifts, or wanders aimlessly; a drifter; wanderer; traveller.
*1888 , Edward Doyle, Moody moments: poems - Page 56 :
*1999 , Kinahan Cornwallis, Two Journeys to Japan, 1856-7 - Page 60 :
As nouns the difference between drifting and driftling
is that drifting is (motorsports) a driving technique where the driver intentionally oversteers, causing loss of traction in the rear wheels, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner while driftling is one who is carried about, drifts, or wanders aimlessly; a drifter; wanderer; traveller.As an adjective drifting
is moving aimlessly or at the mercy of external forces.As a verb drifting
is .drifting
English
Adjective
(-)- The drifting seaweed went where ever the currents pushed it.
Noun
- Still, she did not regret him, for nothing Ernest could have given her would have equalled the delight of those romantic driftings on the lake with Eden.
Verb
(head)driftling
English
Noun
(en noun)- The low note is the voice Of the Spirit, God, Love, Saying. "Driftling ! rejoice, There is harbor Above."
- The fact of their existence at Nagasaki having been communicated to the American commissioner at Canton, the sloop of war, Preble, was dispatched to bring away these driftlings . She arrived off the harbour of Nagasaki on the 17th of April.