adj
(chiefly UK, often with of) Behind one's opponents, or below a required threshold in terms of score, number or position.
adj
Stranded and helpless, especially on a beach
n
(statistics, machine learning) The tendency of a statistical model to become less and less accurate over time in real-world conditions.
n
(fluid dynamics) The phenomenon by which a fluid parcel is permanently displaced after the passage of a body through a fluid – the fluid being at rest far away from the body.
v
To remove drift from experimental data
n
Anything driven at random.
n
One or more floating slabs of ice which have become detached from larger sheets or shoreline glaciers and which are moved by wind or sea currents.
n
(UK, law, obsolete) An examination or view of the cattle in a forest, in order to see who they belong to and whether they are commonable, and to determine whether or not the forest is surcharged.
n
A seed adapted for long-distance dispersal by water.
n
Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.
n
(automotive) A driver who uses driving techniques to modify vehicle traction to cause a vehicle to slide or power slide rather than drive in line with the tires.
adj
Marked by drift or lack of clear direction; drifty.
n
(geography) An area where the soil is deposited by wind.
n
A hilly region in the midwestern United States that escaped glaciation during the last ice age.
n
A little drift, as of snow.
n
One who is carried about, drifts, or wanders aimlessly; a drifter; wanderer; traveller.
n
(engineering) A smooth drift.
n
A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps.
n
A floating piece, or pieces, of wood that drifts with the current of a body of water.
v
(intransitive) To drift gently through the air.
n
An aggregation of driftwood, roots, etc., capable of bearing soil, floated out from a river delta or similar.
n
(dialectal) Alternative form of flotsam [Debris floating in a river or sea, in particular fragments from a shipwreck.]
n
Debris floating in a river or sea, in particular fragments from a shipwreck.
n
(nautical) That which has been discharged from a ship or boat, especially on the ocean or a sea, (flotsam unintentionally and jetsam intentionally).
n
A solid wave of water coming aboard the deck of a ship.
n
The tendency of an organism to revert to instinctive behaviors that can interfere with the conditioned response.
n
The process whereby sand and shingle move along a beach shoreline when waves approach the shore at an angle.
adv
During the act of drifting.
n
A rip current which may carry a swimmer offshore (the term "riptide" used in this sense is a misnomer).
n
(nautical) Sea spray (clouds of water droplets) blown from the tops of waves by the wind and whipped along the surface of the sea.
n
(nautical, archaic) Alternative form of spindrift [(nautical) Sea spray (clouds of water droplets) blown from the tops of waves by the wind and whipped along the surface of the sea.]
n
The unintentional diffusion of sprayed pesticide onto neighbouring land.
n
A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
n
A swimming pool in which there are artificially generated, reasonably large waves, similar to the ocean's.
n
(law, archaic) Goods found floating on the sea after a shipwreck.
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