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Shifting vs Drifting - What's the difference?

shifting | drifting |

As verbs the difference between shifting and drifting

is that shifting is present participle of lang=en while drifting is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between shifting and drifting

is that shifting is a shift or change; a shifting movement while drifting is 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.

As an adjective drifting is

moving aimlessly or at the mercy of external forces.

shifting

English

Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shift or change; a shifting movement.
  • * (Charles Lamb)
    • I remember the last time I saw Macbeth played, the discrepancy I felt at the changes of garment which he varied, the shiftings and reshiftings, like a Romish priest at mass.
  • * 1978 , Jack Vance, The View from Chickweed's Window
    • Then everyone moved at the same time — slight shiftings of the hands and feet, furtive easings of position.

    drifting

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Moving aimlessly or at the mercy of external forces.
    • The drifting seaweed went where ever the currents pushed it.

    Noun

  • (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)
    • 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

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