drifting

drifting
    adj 1: continually changing especially as from one abode or
           occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the
           floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"
           [syn: {aimless}, {drifting}, {floating}, {vagabond},
           {vagrant}]
    n 1: aimless wandering from place to place
    

Drift \Drift\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drifted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Drifting}.]
   1. To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of
      water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted
      ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east.
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            We drifted o'er the harbor bar.       -- Coleridge.
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   2. To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven
      into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts.
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   3. (mining) to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for
      the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or
      ores; to follow a vein; to prospect. [U.S.]
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67 Moby Thesaurus words for "drifting":
      ascending, axial, back, back-flowing, backward, circumforaneous,
      descending, discursive, divagatory, down-trending, downward,
      errant, flitting, floating, flowing, fluent, flying, footloose,
      footloose and fancy-free, fugitive, gadding, going, gypsy-like,
      gypsyish, gyrational, gyratory, landloping, meandering,
      migrational, migratory, mounting, nomad, nomadic, passing,
      plunging, progressive, rambling, ranging, reflowing, refluent,
      regressive, retrogressive, rising, roaming, rotary, rotational,
      rotatory, roving, running, rushing, shifting, sideward, sinking,
      soaring, straggling, straying, streaming, strolling, traipsing,
      transient, transitory, transmigratory, up-trending, upward,
      vagabond, vagrant, wandering