Drift

Definition

drift /drÇft/ n ၁။ [U] (က) တသြင္သြင္စီးဆင္းျခင္း၊ တိုက္ခတ္ ျခင္း။ တျဖည္းျဖည္း ေရြ႕လ်ားျခင္း။ the drift of the tide/current ❍ the drift of people from the country into the towns. (ခ) သေဘၤာေမ်ာပါ၊ လြင့္ပါျခင္း။ ၂။ [C] မေကာင္းေသာ အေျခအေနသို႔ တစ္စတစ္စ က်ေရာက္ျခင္း။ a slow drift into debt/war/crisis ❍ a drift away from traditional values. ၃။ [sing] ဆိုလိုရင္း။ အာေဘာ္။ My German isn't very good, but I got the drift of what she said. ❍ I don't think I quite catch your drift. ၄။ [C] ေလသယ္ပို႔သျဖင့္ ျဖစ္ေနသည့္ အစုအပံု။ deep snow-drifts ❍ spring flowers in beautiful drifts. See also CONTINENTAL DRIFT v ၁။ ေမ်ာပါသည္။ လြင့္ပါသည္။ လြင့္ေမ်ာသည္။ We switched off the motor and started to drift (along). ❍ The boat drifted down the river. ❍ ( fig ) Voices drifted across the garden. ❍ Time drifted past. ❍ My thoughts drifted back to my childhood. ၂။ (က) တျဖည္းျဖည္း သြားသည္။ The crowds drifted away from the stadium. ❍ She finally drifted in two hours after everyone else. (ခ) [ဥ]သူ႕အရိွန္ႏွင့္သူလိမ့္သည္။ အလိုလိုေရာက္သြားသည္။ I'm happy to let things drift for now. ❍ The talk drifted back to politics. ❍ I didn't mean to be a teacher—I just drifted into it. ၃။ (သဲ၊ ႏွင္းစသည္) ေလသယ္ပို႔၍ အစုအပံု ျဖစ္သည္။ Some roads are closed because of drifting. ၄။ ေမွ်ာသည္။ လြင့္ပါေစသည္။ The logs are drifted downstream to the mill. ❍ The wind drifted the snow into a high bank. ❏ drift off [ PHRV ] အိပ္ေပ်ာ္သြားသည္။ It was 3 o'clock before I finally drifted off (to sleep). ❏ drifter n ( usu derog ) ေျခသလံုးအိမ္တိုင္။ ေရေမ်ာ ကမ္းတင္။ ❏ drift-net n ေမွ်ာပိုက္။

Examples

1. The boat started to drift out to sea.
2. Thick smoke drifted across the town.
3. People were drifting around the conference centre.
4. He was drifting in and out of consciousness.
5. The conversation drifted from one dull subject to the another.
6. I just drifted into nursing really.