Drifting vs Raft - What's the difference?
drifting | raft |
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)
A flat structure made of planks, barrels etc., that floats on water, and is used for transport, emergencies or a platform for swimmers.
A flat-bottomed inflatable craft for floating or drifting on water.
A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals.
(US) A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.
(slang, informal) A large collection of people or things taken indiscriminately.
* W. D. Howells
A large (but unspecified) number, a lot.
* 2007 , Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon , Blue Bridge 2008, p. 31:
(reave)
As nouns the difference between drifting and raft
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 raft is a flat structure made of planks, barrels etc, that floats on water, and is used for transport, emergencies or a platform for swimmers or raft can be a large (but unspecified) number, a lot.As verbs the difference between drifting and raft
is that drifting is while raft is to convey on a raft or raft can be (reave).As an adjective drifting
is moving aimlessly or at the mercy of external forces.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)raft
English
(wikipedia raft)Etymology 1
From Scandinavian; compare West (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- a whole raft of folks
Derived terms
* life raftEtymology 2
Alteration of (raff).Noun
(en noun)- Among those arrested was the grand master himself, Jacques de Molay, who found himself facing a raft of charges based on the specious evidence of former knights [...].
Etymology 3
Verb
(head)- (Spenser)