Drift Sentence Examples

She couldn't let this moment drift by.

I hope we never drift apart that way again.

The Middle Drift is 36 m.

She sat down, leaning her back against the tree, and watched shadows from puffy clouds drift across the surface.

He wanted to let his hand drift downwards but stopped himself.

Before she started to drift into an in-between place, she saw Darian stand and look around, awake for the first time in thousands of years.

On the 22nd of January the centre column (1600 Europeans, 2500 natives), which had advanced from Rorke's Drift, was encamped near Isandhlwana; on the morning of Isandhl- that day Lord Chelmsford moved out with a small wane force to support a reconnoitring party.

In the other parts of the state the soil is composed mainly of glacial drift, and is generally deep and fertile.

The non-arable north-east portion of the state is covered with a coarse granite drift.

Helland-Hansen and Nansen showed later that it was improbable that variations in the northerly drift of Atlantic water could be traced directly to variations in the quantity of heat received by the sea from solar radiation.

It splits into two parts east of the Philippines, one division flowing northwards as the Kuro Siwo or Black Stream, the analogue of the Gulf Stream, to feed a drift circulation which follows the winds of the North Pacific, and finally forms the Californian Current flowing southwards along the American coast.

The soil is for the most part glacial drift, composed of clay, sand and gravel, and varying greatly in depth.

The part of this atmospheric circulation which is steadiest in its action is the trade winds, and this is, therefore, the most effective in producing drift movement of the surface waters.

The movements of the northern branch of the Gulf Stream drift have been the object of more careful and more extended study than all the other currents of the ocean put together, except, perhaps, the Gulf Stream itself.

On the polar side of the high-pressure area a west wind drift is under the control of the " roaring forties," and on reaching South Africa part of this is deflected and sent northwards along the west coast as the cold Benguella current which rejoins the equatorial.

Laptyev sailed, but was stopped by the drift ice in August, and in 1739, during another trial, he reached the mouth of the Indigirka, where he wintered.

Well-worn pebbles of amorphous quartz (agate, chalcedony, jasper, &c.) are found in the stratified drift along the western side of the Tertiary region of the state, and from Columbus northward.

Those that flow directly into the lake are short, but some of the rivers of this region, such as the Cuyahoga and the'Grand, are turned by drift ridges into circuitous courses and flow through narrow valleys with numerous falls and rapids.

North of the lower course of the Maumee river is a belt of sand, but Ohio drift generally contains a large mixture of clay.

The bottom water is relatively rich in these substances as well as in decaying organic matter, and would become progressively richer but for the slow drift towards the equator and the welling-up of bottom water to the surface in these latitudes.

Experiments with annealed iron gave less satisfactory results, on account of the slowness with which the metal settled down into a new magnetic state, thus causing a " drift " of the magnetometer needle, which sometimes persisted for several seconds.

The warm Mozambique current sweeps down from the N.E., setting up a back drift close in shore.

The mounted troops Kop. engaged a Boer force north-west of the point of Spion passage, but were brought back to take part in a general right wheel of the forces of the Tugela, pivoting on Trichardt's Drift.

Rorke's Drift, 48 m., also in a direct line, above the Middle Drift, is a crossing of the Buffalo river a little above the Tugela confluence.

A railway, completed in 1904, which begins at Durban and crosses into Zululand by a bridge over the Tugela near the Lower Drift, runs along the coast belt over nearly level country to the St Lucia coal-fields in Hlabisa magistracy-167 m.

After the victory at Isandhlwana several impis of the Zulu army had Rorke's moved to the Drift.

The 1st division, under major-general Crealock, advanced along the coast belt and was destined to act as a support to the 2nd division, under major-general Newdigate, which with Wood's flying column, an independent unit, was to march on Ulundi from Rorke's Drift and Kambula.

In this case the advanced drift is run underneath the pillar, and the ground below is mined in descending steps.

There are transported or drift soils, the particles of which have been brought from other areas and deposited over the rocks below.

A drift or entry is a horizontal passageway starting from the outcrop and following the deposit.

A tunnel differs from a drift in that it is driven across the strata to intersect the deposit.

A mine should always be opened by drift or entry if practicable, as thereby the expense of hoisting and pumping is avoided.

In the morning the Tehama, as seen from the mountain tops, appears buried in a sea of white cloud; towards noon the clouds drift up the mountain slopes and cover the summits with wreaths of light mist charged with moisture which condenses on the trees and vegetation; in the afternoon they disappear, and the evenings are generally clear and still.

Over the whole state there is a layer of drift deposited by the glaciers which once covered this region.

This glacial material is in the form of a till or boulder clay, but in the lowlands, and especially along Narragansett Bay, it is generally overlaid by stratified drift deposited by glacial streams. Within Narragansett Bay are the numerous islands characteristic of an area which has suffered comparatively recent depression, the largest being Rhode Island (or Aquidneck), Conanicut Island and Prudence Island.

Slates and fine-grained sandstones appear here freely through the glacial drift.

Thus, about noon on the r 6th he reached the high ground between St Privat and Amanvillers, and still without instructions he determined to direct his corps on Bruville and Doncourt, whence he could judge from the drift of the smokeclouds whether he could fall on the Prussian left.

Volcanic dust thrown into the air settles out slowly, and some of the products of submarine and littoral volcanoes, like pumice-stone, possess a remarkable power of floating and may drift into any part of the ocean before they become waterlogged and sink.

The usual form of ventilating furnace is a plain fire grate placed under an arch, and communicating with the upcast shaft by an inclined drift.

To overcome drift the axis must be pointed to the left of the target, and the amount will increase with the range.

Disadvantages of earlier patterns were, the telescope was inverting, the drum was not graduated in yards, and drift not allowed for.

Howitzer sights are vertical and do not allow for drift; they are graduated in degrees only.

The sights themselves fit into sockets cut at the proper angle for drift, and are raised in their sockets the requisite amount for the range by means of a small hand-wheel; they are thus non-recoiling sights.

The Caledon, from its source in Mont aux Sources to Jammerberg Drift near Wepener, forms the boundary of the province, the southern bank being in Basutoland; below Wepener the land on both sides of the Caledon is in the province.

West of the Missouri river the sheet of glacial drift is absent, and the lands everywhere show evidence of extensive stream erosion.

The glacial drift east of the Missouri river, unlike that of the New England states, is remarkably free from boulders and gravel, except in a few morainic belts.

West of the Missouri river the drift gives place to a fine soil of sand aid clay, with deposits of alluvium in the vicinity of streams. Though lacking in vegetable mould, these soils are generally capable of producing good crops where the water-supply is sufficient.

The prairies in this second table-land are gently rolling, and are covered with drift from the continental ice-sheet of the glacial period.

East of the Missouri river this region is covered with glacial drift, and is noticeably different from the more level lands of the lower plains.

The morainic belts and other obstructions in the drift plains hem in the waters in the intervening basins and create what are called " glacial lakes," var y ing in diameter from a few yards to several miles.

The drift plains also contain numerous shallow hollows, locally termed " pots and kettles," which receive the drainage of their vicinity and form sloughs.

The drift becomes thinner toward the W., and finally disappears in the semi-arid regions of the Missouri river valley.

In this region the soils of sand and clay are much finer than the drift, and are very productive where the water-supply is sufficient.

In foreign affairs a policy of drift prevailed which encouraged all the enemies of the Republic to raise their heads, while the dependent states of Prussia in the north and Moldavia in the south made strenuous efforts to break away from Poland.

Visited in 1873 and 1878 the colony was found in excellent order, but by the end of the century it was stated that intermarriage was bringing a deterioration of intellect, morals and energy, and that the islanders would probably drift into imbecility.

All derived existence, however, has a drift towards, a longing for, the higher, and bends towards it so far as its nature will permit.

Seeing the perilous drift of things, he had tried to get into touch with the king; and it was on his advice that Louis, on the fatal loth, took refuge in the Assembly.

Fertile soil in New Hampshire is confined largely to the bottom-lands of the Merrimac and Connecticut rivers, where on deposits of glacial drift, which are generally quite deep in the southern half of the state, there is considerable alluvium.

In New England also a wellestablished drainage undoubtedly prevailed in preglacial times; but partly in consequence of the irregular scouring of the rock floor, and even more because of the very irregular deposition of unstratified and stratified drift in the valleys, the drainage is now in great disorder.

Many lakes of moderate size and irregular outline have been formed where drift deposits formed barriers across former river courses; the lake outlets are more or less displaced from former river paths.

Smaller lakes were formed by the deposition of washed drift around the longest-lasting ice remnants; when the ice finally melted away, the hollows that it left came to be occupied by ponds and lakes.

Where drift deposits border the sea, the shore line has been cut back or built forward in beaches of submature expression, often enclosing extensive tidal marshes; but the great part of the shore line is rocky, and there the change from initial pattern due to submergence is as yet small.

The basins have been variously ascribed to glacial erosion, to obstruction of normal outlet valleys by barriers of glacial drift, and to crustal warping in connection with or independent of the presence of the glacial sheet.

The prairies are, in brief, a contribution of the glacial period; they consist for the most part of glacial drift, deposited unconformably on an underlying rock surface of moderate or small relief.

They are usually fine-textured limestones and shales, lying horizontal; the moderate or small relief that they were given by mature preglacial erosion is now buried under the drift, but is known by numerous borings for oil, gas and water.

The greatest area of the prairies, from Indiana to North Dakota, consists of till plains, that is, sheets of unstratified drift, 30, 50 or even 100 ft.

A curious deposit of an impalpably fine and unstratified silt, known by the German name bess, lies on the older drift sheets near the larger river courses of the upper Mississippi basin.

South-western Wisconsin and parts of the adjacent states of Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota are known as the driftless area, because, although bordered by drift sheets and moraines, it is free from glacial deposits.

The drift deposits thereabouts are so heavy that the present divides between the drainage basins of Hudson Bay, Lake Superior and the Gulf of Mexico evidently stand in no very definite relation to the preglacial divides.

The course of the Mississippi through Minnesota is largely guided by the form of the drift cover.

Several rapids and the Falls of St Anthony (determining the site of Minneapolis) are signs of immaturity, resulting from superposition through the drift on the under rock.

In earlier literature the Lafayette formation was described under the name of Orange Sand, and was at one time thought to be the southern equivalent of the glacial drift.

This, however, is now known not to be the case, as remnants of the formation, isolated by erosion, lie under the old glacial drift in Illinois, and perhaps elsewhere.

The glacial ac drift covers something like half of the continent, though much less than half of the United States.

Besides the drift of the icesheets, there is much drift in the western mountains, deposited by local glaciers.

Essentially all phases of glacial and aqueo-glacial drift are represented.

Terminal moraines at the border of the Illinoian drift are generally feeble, though widely recognizable, and such moraines at the margin of the Iowan and Kansan drift sheets are generally wanting.

The edge of the oldest drift sheet is buried by younger sheets of drift in most places.

Some of the bess is thought to have been derived by the wind from the surface of the drift soon after the retreat of the ice, before vegetation got a foothold upon the new-made deposit; but a large part of the bess, especially that associated with the main valleys, appears to have been blown up on to the bluffs of the valleys from the flood plains below.

The estimate of the time between the first and last glacial epochs is based on changes which the earlier drift has undergone as compared with those which the younger drift has undergone.

In the west the Quaternary deposits are not, in all cases, sharply separated from the late Tertiary, but the deposits of glacial drift, referable to two or more glacial epochs, are readily differentiated from the Tertiary; so, also, are certain lacustrine deposits, such as those of the extinct lakes Bonneville and Lahontan.

Two leading features, from which many others follow, are the intermediate value of the mean annual temperatures and the prevalence of westerly winds, with which drift the areas of high and low pressurecyclonic and anticyclonic areascontrolling the short-lived, non-periodic weather changes.

An objection has occasionally been urged against frames lowered on to the bed of a river that they are liable to be covered over by detritus or drift brought down by floods, and consequently are subject to injury or impediments in being raised.

The addition of a foot-bridge greatly facilitates the raising and lowering of these shutter weirs, and also aids the regulation of the discharge; but it renders this form of weir much more costly than the ordinary frame weir, and where large quantities of drift come down with sudden floods, the frames of the bridge are liable to be carried away, and therefore boats must be relied on for working the weir.

His pantheism had an antinomian drift; for himself and his officials he claimed impeccability; but, whatever truth there may be in the charge that among his followers were those who interpreted "love" as licence, no such charge can be sustained against the morals of Niclaes and the other leaders of the sect.

The islands are very numerous, the principal being Inishturk, near Killary Harbour; Clare Island, at the mouth of Clew Bay, where there are many islets, all formed of drift; and Achill, the largest island off Ireland.

Clew Bay, with its islets capped by glacial drift, is a submerged part of a synclinal of Carboniferous strata, and Old Red Sandstone comes out on the north side of this, from near Achill to Lough Conn.

The north-west and north-east sections contain some glacial drift but the soil in these parts is not suitable for cultivation except in the larger valleys in the north-west where it is drained by glacial gravel or there is some sandy loam mixed with clay.

The Pliocene occurs chiefly in the low-lying land and is generally covered by drift and alluvium.

The tendency of the dunes to drift off on the landward side is prevented by the planting of bent-grass (Arundo arenaria), whose long roots serve to bind the sand together.

The appearance of northern shells in the upper divisions of the Pliocene series indicates the approach of the Glacial period, and glacial drift containing Scandinavian boulders now covers much of the country east of the Zuider Zee.

The government, however, could not make up their minds what course to pursue, and by allowing things to drift ended by converting a popular riot into a national revolt.

The drift townwards of the rural population began in 1890, when the urban population amounted to only 18% of the whole, whereas in 1904 it reached 24%, as compared with 13% for the urban population of Russia as a whole.

Considerable interest attaches to the diamonds found in Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio near the Great Lakes, for they are here found in the terminal moraines of the great glacial sheet which is supposed to have spread southwards from the region of Hudson Bay; several of the drift minerals of the diamantiferous region of Indiana have been identified as probably of Canadian origin; no diamonds have however yet been found in the intervening country of Ontario.

Thus it is possible to speak of a snow-drift, an accumlation driven by the wind; of a ship drifting out of its course; of the drift of a speech, i.e.

In writing and in conversation the geological expression " drift " is now usually understood to mean Glacial drift, including boulder clay and all the varieties of sand, gravel and clay deposits formed by the agency of ice sheets, glaciers and icebergs.

But in the " Drift " maps many other types of deposit are indicated, such, for instance, as the ordinary modern alluvium of rivers, and the older river terraces (River-drift of various ages), including gravels, brickearth and loam; old raised sea beaches and blown-sand (Aeolian-drift); the " Head " of Cornwall and Devon, an angular detritus consisting of stones with clay or loam; clay-with-flints, rainwash (landwash), scree and talus; the " Warp," a marine and estuarine silt and clay of the Humber; and also beds of peat and diatomite.

The general tendency among the numerous societies of Christian Socialism, which broke up almost as quickly as they appeared, was to drift from the alliance with the ultra-Conservatives and to adopt the economic and many of the political doctrines of the Social Democrats.

The Till or Boulder Clay, the most universal kind of Drift - which covers much of the Lowlands to a depth sometimes of roo ft., and along the flanks of hills reaches a height of 2000 ft.

The surface soils are composed of drift deposits, varying from 10 to 200 ft.

In the former year considerable numbers were taken off Dover in drift nets of small mesh used for the capture of sprats.

Thus while John is an adherent of Chalcedon and a dyothelite, the drift of his teaching is in the monophysite direction.

Thereafter the drift was eastward and northward until she broke out of the pack in lat.

The drift lasted for 264 days and no land was sighted, although a sledge journey was made westward to long.

Vahsel died during the drift, and the expedition broke up at South Georgia.

The drift went on until April 9 1916 when the floe, reduced to a triangle zoo yds.

The stars have on this theory random peculiar motions in addition to the motion of the drift to which they belong, just as on the older theory the stars have peculiar motions in addition to the solar or parallactic motion shared by all of them.

The older one - which may be called the " one-drift " hypothesis, since according to it the stars appear to form a single drift moving away from the solar apex - requires that the apparent directions of motion should be so distributed that fewest stars are moving directly towards the solar apex, and most stars along the great circle away from the solar apex, the number decreasing symmetrically, for directions inclined on either side of this great circle, according to a law which can be calculated.

The magnitudes of the stars are distributed in the same way in each drift.

It is naturally fairly close to the apex of the faster drift, but is displaced from it in the direction of the apex of the other drift.

In this connexion it may be noticed that, when the smaller and larger proper motions are discussed separately, the latter category will include an unduly great proportion of stars belonging to the fast-moving drift, and the resulting determination will lead to a solar apex too near the apex of that drift, i.e.

Now the position of this line, as found by Kobold, actually is a (properly weighted) mean between the corresponding lines of symmetry of the two drifts, but naturally it lies in the acute angle between them, whereas the line of the solar motion is also a weighted mean between the two lines of drift, but lies in the obtuse angle between them.

Korean harbours, except two or three which are closed by drift ice for some weeks in winter, are ice-free.

This writing is so singularly frank and unconventional that its drift is not at once apparent to the literary student.

The disaster of Isandhlwana and the defence of Rorke's Drift signalized the commencement of the campaign, but on the 4th of July the Zulus were utterly routed at Ulundi.

But his name is chiefly perpetuated through his investigation of the motions of sun-spots, by which he determined the elements of the sun's rotation and made the important discovery of a systematic drift of the photosphere, causing the rotation-periods of spots to lengthen with increase of solar latitude.

This journey practically removed from the map the doubtful Keenan Land (reported vaguely in the 'seventies of last century), while soundings taken during the drift of the " Karluk " and other journeys of the expedition show a narrow continental shelf, and reduce the probability of land existing in the western part of the Beaufort Sea.

The natural condition of society, natural law, natural religion, the poetry of nature, gained a singular hold, first on the English philosophers from Hume onwards, and then (through Rousseau chiefly) on the general drift of thought and action in Europe.

The ethical treatises of the scholars are deficient in substance, while Ficino's attempt to revive Platonism betrays an uncritical conception of his master's drift.

The unconscious drift of Washington's mind was toward the Federalist party; his letters to La Fayette and to Patrick Henry, in December 1798 and January 1799, make that evident even without the record of his earlier career as president.

The invasion of Zululand began in January 1879, and was speedily followed by the disaster at Isandhlwana and by the defence of Rorke's Drift and of Eshowe.

These are - Wha.t is the general drift and purpose of Gargantua and Pantagruel, supposing there to be any?

This hilly district contains the most productive land in the province, the soil consisting of diluvial drift or boulder clay.

In the northern and north central parts of the state, where the soil consists partly of glacial drift, the species have a wider range than is the case farther S., where the soil is more uniform.

The contrast between the lower grounds of the Western and the Eastern Divisions is masked in many places by the general covering of the surface with glacial drift, which is usually a stiff clay composed on the whole of the detritus of the rocks upon which it rests, though containing fragments of rocks which have been transported from a considerable distance.

There are, besides, numerous mountain tarns of small size, most of them in hollows barred by the glacial drift which covers a great part of the district.

The thickest covering of drift is found in the Holderness district of Yorkshire, where, from the chalk cliffs of Flamborough Head to the sandspit of Spurn Point, the whole coast is formed of boulderclay resting on chalk.

The cause of the mild climate of the Panhandle, formerly supposed to be the Japanese current, or Kuro Shiwo, is now held to be the general eastward drift of the waters of the North Pacific in the direction of the prevalent winds.

The soil is for the most part glacial drift, containing a large mixture of clay with sand or gravel, and the sub-soil is mostly " hard-pan," i.e.

Between 1850 and 1860 French and English geologists were induced to examine into the facts, and found irresistible the evidence that man existed and used rude implements of chipped flint during the Quaternary or Drift period.

This and other evidence (which is considered in more detail in the article Archaeology) is now generally accepted by geologists as carrying back the existence of man into the period of the post-glacial drift, in what is now called the Quaternary period, an antiquity at least of tens of thousands of years.

The interval between the Quaternary or Drift period and the period of historical antiquity is to some extent bridged over by relics of various intermediate civilizations, e.g.

These Pleistocene deposits include bouldery drift, loess, terrace deposits and alluvium.

Modified drift and erratics were also widely deposited.

This variety is due to the presence of different forms of glacial drift, and to the variety of surface rocks.

Off the east and south shores of the colony the Mozambique or Agulhas current sweeps south-westward with force sufficient to set up a back drift.

This back drift or counter current flowing north-east is close in shore and is taken advantage of by vessels going from Cape Town to Natal.

It is a deflected stream from the west drift of the " roaring forties " and coming from Antarctic regions is much colder than the Agulhas current.

Off the southern point of the continent the Agulhas current meets the west drift, giving rise to alternate streams of warm and cold water.

In 1891 the Free State railway was still farther extended to Viljoen's Drift on the Vaal river, and in 1892 it reached Pretoria and Johannesburg.

Their action in what is known as the Vaal River Drift question will best illustrate the line of action which the Transvaal government believed it expedient to adopt.

On clearing the land south of the Cape the waters of the Agulhas current meet those of the west wind drift of the Southern Ocean, and mingle with them in such a manner as to produce, by interdigitation, alternate strips of warm and cold water, which are met with at great distances south-west and south of the Cape.

Between South Africa and Australia the waters form a part of the great west wind drift.

The waters of this drift are, in general, of very low temperature, but it is remarkable that the interdigitation just mentioned continues far to the eastward, at least as far as Kerguelen.

The west wind drift sends a stream northwards along the west coast of Australia, the West Australia current, the homologue of the Benguela current in the South Atlantic. The principal feature in the circulation in the depths of the Indian Ocean is a slow movement of Antarctic water northwards along the bottom to take the place of that removed from the surface by evaporation, and by currents in the lower latitudes.

The soil of the greater part of the state consists of a drift deposit of loose calcareous loam, which extends to a considerable depth, and which is exceedingly fertile.

The natural drift of circumstances was not stayed even by the disastrous end of the career of Joan of Arc in 1430.

The prudence of their drift must be settled by external considerations.

If the mother country and her daughter states did not draw closer, they would inevitably drift apart.

The drift covers the eastern fifth of the state.

The glacial drift is also a useful deposit, coarse ingredients in it being of small amount (rare boulders, and some gravel).

This it is obvious must commonly be the case, as most leaves and fruits are not calculated to drift far in the sea without injury or in abundance; nor are they likely as a rule to be associated with marine organisms. Deposits containing marine fossils can be compared even when widely separated, for the ocean is continuous and many marine species are world-wide.

He resigned himself to watch her drift towards perdition.

Paradoxically, much older work can seem contemporary if it addresses a sense of political drift.

Instinctively Cole applied just the right leverage to lift the ball over Carroll with enough curl to drift inside the top corner of the goal.

A very few new mutant alleles can drift to fixation in this manner.

A fractured ankle saw him quit The Posh and drift away from the professional game.

Third, by this time tales had perhaps begun to drift back of the vampire bats found in the New World.

The properties are important in proportional counters, ionization chambers, drift chambers and in the prediction of the electrical breakdown of gases.

The drift geology map for the LCA also highlights the extensive alluvial deposits associated with the present-day floodplain of the lagan.

It is a nice gentle drift dive with rocky shelves that are set at about every 5 meters.

Limited littoral drift is reported on beaches between the rivers Hamble and Itchen, with a drift divergence between Victoria Park and Hamble Common.

All crews should ensure that they do not drift downstream of their marshaling position.

Name 3 PUSH factors 3. Explain the process of longshore drift 53.

Modern ideas of continental drift have proved this to be true.

Two glaciers converged across the North Shropshire Plain leaving thick layers of glacial drift.

I knew Robert was deeply unhappy with the rightward drift of the Conservatives.

Lately there has, however, been an upward drift in the level of awards.

You break through forests, drift around sandy corners, and so on.

Customize your drift racing experience with the new customization mode.

Drifting is a staple of Ridge Racer and in all the other games you have control on how you enter the drift and how you come out of the drift.

When you enter a drift the computer takes over for you and rides a 'line' around the turn until you straighten out.

It does take some getting use to, especially on the PSP, but after a while, you find the nuances of the small thumbstick and can drift with your eyes closed.

Get nipple cream, take hot showers, and accept tender massages from your partner, if you catch my drift.

One day, you see the guy who's always been there for you in a new light, and suddenly your thoughts drift to turning a friend into a boyfriend.

Empty your mind of all thoughts, and allow yourself to drift for a while.

A GearInstitute review describes the Brooks Pure Drift as a "must-try" for runners who "like classically-designed running shoes and want to get as light as possible."

On the narrow plateau areas the geology is plateau and river-terrace drift.

It must be applied in dry, still conditions avoiding spray drift.

Soon drifting voices drift across to us, answered from our side.

This may go some way to explain the partial drift cover in the region and the widespread occurrence of rock cored drumlins.

Sediment accumulations within groin embayments at Hamworthy Park also indicate a net west to east drift.

Littoral drift rates and volumes should be estimated using details of cliff, and shoreface erosion inputs and beach volume changes.

The NPL low drift etalon has extremely low overshoot and settles in a fraction of the time of conventional etalons.

To measure relative drift velocities of small and large floes due to wind and wave action.

The random bit comes in the form of genetic diversity, random genetic drift, little mistakes in the DNA replication process.

Along the northwestern margin of the LCA, the drift geology map also shows a limited expanse of glaciofluvial deposits.

It's an 80-90 foot drift or anchor dive among large sponges, gorgonians, and corals.

The drift geology map also highlights spreads of alluvial deposits associated with the floodplains of the rivers that form the headwaters of the Lagan.

This image quality is much better than that obtained with the X-ray instrumentation, and is significantly degraded by the spacecraft drift.

Thus the changes in the open flux and cosmogenic isotopes do not appear to be linked to the 100-year drift in TSI.

And that was sufficiently evident as I started to drift sideways down one particular side road at a rather jaunty angle.

This may provide a locally significant input of clay, sand and gravel derived from Eocene bedrock and overlying drift sediment.

Each night the wind would blow the snow off the moor to drift across the road and the work had to start again.

Incorporating tiny bubbles of air into each spray droplet eliminates much of the spray drift.

We needn't have worried tho as it was more of a drift down the river (surprisingly swift ).

We assumed that she would drift slightly as punters were sure to overbet Leatherback who was napped by newspaper tipsters.

The drift net had been set at 5 meters in waters more than 2000 meters deep to catch tuna.

I often wear chest waders for drift fishing in a boat, particularly in the rain.

When at last they were driven to the Strait they would drift over on rafts or in clumsy shallops; being thereafter left in peace to concentrate their race, then possibly only in an approximately pure state, in the island to which the Dravidians would not take the trouble to follow them, and where they would have centuries in which once more to fix their racial type and emphasize over again those differences, perhaps temporarily marred by crossing, which were found to exist on the arrival of the Whites.

True it is the latter were never published in full, but it is quite conceivable that Dr Cornay may have known their drift.

The above abstract shows the general drift of this very remarkable contribution to ornithology, and it has to be added that for by far the greater number of his minor groups Huxley relied solely on the form of the palatal structure, the importance of which Dr Cornay had before urged, though to so little purpose.

Three columns were to invade Zululand, from the Lower Tugela, Rorke's Drift, and Utrecht respectively, their objective being Ulundi, the royal kraal.

In spite, however, of his desire for peace he let his country drift into the disastrous war with Japan; and notwithstanding his sincere attachment to the principles of bureaucratic autocracy, it was he who granted the constitutional reforms which altered the whole political outlook in Russia (see Russia).

An effect similar to drift is observable at tennis, golf, base-ball and cricket; but this effect is explainable by the inequality of pressure due to a vortex of air carried along by the rotating ball, and the deviation is in the opposite direction of the drift observed in artillery practice, so artillerists are still awaiting theory and crucial experiment.

Glaciation has strongly scoured away the deeply-weathered soils that presumably existed here in preglacial time, revealing firm and rugged ledges in the low hills and swells of the ground, and spreading an irregular drift cover over the lower parts, whereby the drainage is often much disordered; here being detained in lakes and swamps (muskegs) and there rushing down rocky rapids.

As autocratic ruler of the nation which had long considered itself the defender of the Eastern Orthodox faith and the protector of the Slav nationalities, he could not remain inactive at such a crisis, and he gradually allowed himself to drift into a position from which he could not retreat without obtaining some tangible result.

He had rightly measured the strength of his followers, and was waiting for the government to" drift into unison "with the republican sense of its constituents, predicting that President Adams would be" overborne "thereby.

But the fry drift with the currents as helplessly as the eggs, and the a priori objections to the utility of the operations have in no case been met by evidence of tangible results.

The loess, however - reddish-brown, buff or grey in colour, according to the varying proportions of iron oxide - is almost everywhere spread above the drift.

During the northern summer the south-west monsoon, which is sufficiently strong to bring navigation practically to a standstill except for powerful steamers, sets up a strong north-easterly drift in the Arabian Sea, and the water removed from the east African coast is replaced by the upwelling of cold water from below; this is one of the best illustrations of this action extant.

Opposed to them, again, are the drift (" knowers," "perceivers," sentientes, as opposed to scientes), to whom religious knowledge comes in the vision of the mystic, not by tradition or reason (see *Ufiism).

The eastern part of the state is covered with a thick mantle of Quaternary (Pleistocene), and the greatest part of the western portion with very thick deposits of Miocene and Pliocene (Tertiary) To the Pleistocene belong the alluvium, loess and glacial drift, and in part the sand-hills.

Above the drift there is usually a heavy covering of loess or " bluff deposit " (particularly typical in the neighbourhood of Omaha and Council Bluffs).

There are five well-defined soil regiotis corresponding to the geologic-topographic divisions already indicated of drift loess, sand-hills, foot-hills and Bad Lands.

At the moment little has been released regarding the single player modes of the latest installment of Ridge Racer, the legendary drift racer.

You'll recognize them; them, they 're the ' eccentric ' folk who drift from place to place making utterly random comments.

The velocity of resonant drift, produced by spatially uniform perturbations is obtained.

We need n't have worried tho as it was more of a drift down the river (surprisingly swift).

One three-cornered fight resulted in swings toward the Lib Dems from both other parties, the other a drift away from Labor.

The drift geology map for this LCA shows a landscape that is largely underlain by Late Midlandian till.

This means they would drift slowly apart and after some time the useable capacity of the pack is very small.

After the silicon vertex detector is the Central Outer Tracker, a gas drift chamber which operates via the detection of charged ions.

I like to drift out wide and use my pace to wrong-foot opponents.

He needs to learn how to drift off to sleep on his own.

When the show is over, they can still imagine they are traveling the tracks as they drift off to sleep.

However, as the months drift by, many women will ache to feel like themselves again, and the look and texture of boring, white, stretchy nursing bras can leave you feeling more matronly than womanly.

Almost anyone can head out in a motorboat on the weekend, but if you want to learn to sail, you'll need to take lessons and make sure you can control the boat so you aren't injured or so you don't drift out to sea.

It's possible they drift apart after a few years or they simply weren't mature enough to deal with the ups and downs that come with married life after the excitement of the wedding has passed.

The smoke from a forest fire can drift hundreds of miles, carry pollutants as it drifts, darken the sky, and spread to create poor air quality.

Using extensions of the old perfumery process, they created a rich and sweet floral fragrance with aromas of fruits, herbs, leaves and woods - finishing off with a strong drift of vanilla.

Any cost savings you've realized from purchasing books online can quickly drift away if you're not careful about shipping costs.

It's best to start a group with a lesson when members are most attentive, and then when their attention begins to drift, you can bring them back to the group with an activity.

I know that sounds horrible, but you get my drift, don't you?

One of the easiest ways to drift off or get side tracked is ignoring the speaker.

Drift wood, pieces of wave-tumbled stone, and other natural items can make highly individual centerpieces and reflect the beach theme.

Rest your palms on the keyboard to minimize hand drift and arm fatigue.

Loose insulation can be especially dangerous as it can drift toward recessed lighting fixtures and create a fire hazard.

This includes the ability to "drift" repeatedly through the straight portions of the tracks, sliding from the left to right and back again to pick up even more momentum.

Once you learn the "Crazy" maneuvers (drifting, dashing, the back dash, and the back drift), you'll be performing them naturally.

Drift Attack is a boring mode where you have to hit 'drift areas' to drift your car across.

Drift Attack gets frustrating because you feel like you're on ice.

Maybe if you had to drift on actual tracks and the drift areas were on turns of the track, this mode might be more fun.

Despite the annoying AI and boring Drift Races, the nice graphics and amount of fast-paced driving will keep you playing this game for a while.

Turning was tight (and you can even drift) and controlling your weapons and shields was easy enough with the default configuration.

This man can drift in and out of reality as easily as you flip a light switch.

On the other hand, it can also be a case of familiarity breeds contempt, in which the pair begins to drift from one another.

There, he takes on one of the hottest drift racers around, who also turns out to work for a crime family, and whoop, there it is, Shaun is pulled into more legal problem, only this time, he's a world away from home.

Once you are perfectly relaxed, close your eyes and let your mind begin to drift.

The lazy drift of the river coupled with the picturesque lights and view of the city atnightis a worthy addition to any trip to Paris.

Some people enjoy a greater length of time between the original alarm and the alarm after a snooze, whereas other people may find that they drift into a deep sleep during this time which makes waking up even more difficult.

Those aren't the exact words, but you get my drift.

Cool down overheated skin or drift off to sleep with the soothing scents of rosemary and peppermint wafting around you.

I'm sorry I let my attention drift.

Adrienne wasn't sure she liked the drift of the conversation.

Absent Martha's soothing voice, Howie wasn't able to drift off until our third try.

Things that made her knees weak and her eyes drift dreamily to the ocean as she remembered.

Kiki didn't knock the door down as he could, instead beating loudly enough for the sound to drift down the road.

However, no sooner had he entered the tent, stripped, and crawled into his sleeping bag than his exhausted body began to drift to another world.

Of course, he could have changed - in which case they would drift further apart if she reverted.

In 1865 the synod of that province, in an urgent letter to the archbishop of Canterbury (Dr Longley), represented the unsettlement of members of the Canadian Church caused by recent legal decisions of the Privy Council, and their alarm lest the revived action of Convocation "should leave us governed by canons different from those in force in England and Ireland, and thus cause us to drift into the status of an independent branch of the Catholic Church."

Where surface water is banked up against the land, as by the equatorial and Gulf Stream drift currents, it appears to penetrate to very considerable depths; the escaping stream currents are at first of great vertical thickness and part of the water at their sources has a downward movement.

It appears, however, to have been partly derived from yet earlier Tertiary deposits (Eocene); and it occurs also as a derivative mineral in later formations, such as the drift.

Laptyev, started from the Lena in 1739, but encountered masses of drift ice in Chatanga bay, and with this ended the voyages to the westward of the Lena.

The chairs on the British system weigh about 45 or 50 lb each on important lines, though they may be less where the traffic is light, and are fixed to the sleepers each by two, three or four fastenings, either screw spikes, or round drift bolts entered in holes previously bored, or fang bolts or wooden trenails.

The older formation of the Quaternary period is the Lafayette (also called "Orange-sand" or "stratified drift"), which immediately overlies all the Cretaceous groups except the prairies of the Selma chalk, and all the Tertiary except the Porters Creek and Vicksburg formations and parts of the Jackson.

The name stratified drift has been used to indicate its connexion with the northern drift.

Much of the Triassic area is covered superficially by glacial drift and alluvium of the Trent.

Whilst much grass land has been laid down with the intention from the outset that it should be permanent, at the same time some considerable areas have through stress of circumstances been allowed to drift from the temporary or rotation grass area to the permanent list, and have thus still further diminished the area formerly under the dominion of the plough.

The disturbances among the underlying rocks of Ohio have been slight, and originally the surface was a plain only slightly undulating; stream dissection changed the region to one of numberless hills and valleys; glacial drift then filled up the valleys over large broken areas, forming the remarkably level till plains of northwestern Ohio; but at the same time other areas were broken by the uneven distribution of the drift, and south-eastern Ohio, which was unglaciated, retains its rugged hilly character, gradually merging with the typical plateau country farther S.E.

The main water-parting is formed by a range of hills which are composed chiefly of drift and extend W.S.W.

A third class, those upon the Red river and its branches, are caused mainly by the partial stoppage of the water above Shreveport by the " raft," a mass of drift such as frequently gathers in western rivers, which for a distance of 45 m.

His controversial writings have not received due recognition, partly because they were opposed to the drift of his times, partly because of his success in other fields.

More and more the situation in the south of the monarchy was allowed to drift.

America pointedly defined the Adriatic problem as a test case, but amid the pressure of other affairs it was allowed to drift.

Warren was placed in command of the main body, which crossed the Tugela at Trichardt's Drift on the 17th and 18th.

Skirmishing with De Wet in the first stages of their ride, the cavalry brigades crossed the Modder at Klip Drift on the 13th.

The southern boundary of the strip added to Utrecht ran from Rorke's Drift on the Buffalo to a point on the Pongolo.

Lord Chelmsford and the reconnoitring party returned to find the camp deserted; next day they retreated to Rorke's Drift, which had been the scene of an heroic and successful defence.

The garrison stationed there, Drift.

If the deposit shows great variations in thickness in its outcrop along the surface it is probable that a drift or a slope would show the same thing in depth.

Perhaps the majority of drift soils, however, have been moved to their present position by the action of the water of rivers or the sea.

The differences of salinity support this method, and, especially in the northern European seas, often prove a sharper criterion of the boundaries than temperature itself; this is especially the case at the entrance to the Baltic. Evidence drawn from drift-wood, wrecks or special drift bottles is less distinct but still interesting and often useful; this method of investigation includes the use of icebergs as indicators of the trend of currents and also of plankton, the minute swimming or drifting organisms so abundant at the surface of the sea.

The older theory of the origin of drift currents enunciated by Zoppritz in 1878 was modified as indicated above by Nansen in 1901, and Walfrid Ekman subsequently went further.

Ekman shows further that in a pure drift current the mean direction of the whole mass of the current is perpendicular to the direction of the wind which sets it in motion.

The main level or gate road is driven in the benches coal, or lower part of the seam, while a smaller drift for ventilation, called an air heading, is carried above it in one of the upper beds called the slipper coal.

The return air from fiery workings is never allowed to approach the furnace, but is carried into the upcast by a special channel, called a dumb drift, some distance above the furnace drift, so as not to come in contact with the products of combustion until they have been cooled below the igniting point of fire-damp. Where the upcast pit is used for drawing coal, it is usual to discharge the smoke and gases through a short lateral drift near the surface into a tall chimney, so as to keep the pit-top as clear as possible for working.

The ventilation of ends is effected by means of brattices or temporary partitions of thin boards placed midway in the drift, and extending to within a few feet of the face.

Its fertility is not inferior to that of the better drift.

Drift whales were utilized in the earliest years of the colony, and shore boating for the baleen (or " right ") whale - rich in bone and in blubber yielding common oil - was an industry already regulated by various towns before 1650; but the pursuit of the sperm whale did not begin until about 1713.

This deviation or derivation is usually called drift (for further details see Ballistics).

The amount of drift for each nature of gun at different ranges was determined by actual firing.

Zwingli began to preach "the Gospel" in 1516, but a contemporary says that he did it so cunningly (listiglich) that none could suspect his drift.

The present climate is not favourable to permanent vegetation; the island lies within the belt of rain at all seasons of the year, and is reached by no drying winds; its temperature is kept ddwn by the surrounding vast expanse of sea, and it lies within the line of the cold Antarctic drift.

The soil is mostly glacial drift, but its depth and composition often vary greatly even within small areas.

This effect is called drift and the reason of it is not yet understood very clearly.

The mountains also introduce controls over the local winds; diurnal warming in summer suffices to cause local ascending breezes which frequently become cloudy by the expansion of ascent, even to the point of forming local thunder showers which drift away as they grow and soon dissolve after leaving the parent mountain.

They should not be left to drift in a world so laden with moral dangers.

Then at Klip's Drift, on the 15th, 900 men of 9th and 16th lancers charged the Boer defenses.

The surroundings encompass the most extensive exposure of Durness limestone in Britain, tho there are also areas covered by acidic drift.

Wootton Creek therefore acts as a partial sediment sink, intercepting some of the eastward littoral drift, but allowing bypassing of the majority.

May 2006 1 The Drift Scott Walker (non mover) The best things come to those who wait.

Each drift net would be up to 120 fathoms long, up to 12 nets would be joined together to create the drift.

The East coast is marked by fine coral reefs, whilst the west coast offers dramatic drift diving through granite outcrops.

The vigorous depression will drift away northwards, leaving winds mostly coming from the northwest quadrant.

At the moment little has been released regarding the single player modes of the latest installment of Ridge racer, the legendary drift racer.

You'll recognize them; them, they're the ' eccentric ' folk who drift from place to place making utterly random comments.

Beach sediment loss and net drift reversal thus coincided, but without any evident causal relationship.

Next morning Paul sets off drift boating in search of some of his own truly king-size king salmon.

The whole drift took place over a crowded queen scallop bed.

A brilliant night, although the butterscotch schnapps didn't taste much worse when it came up again if you catch my drift.

It should also be noted that you no longer need to toggle the analog stick to the left and right during a drift to achieve a mini-boost.

All you have to do is maintain a drift for a set length of time.

Throw those red shells, drift around those corners... and you'll be smiling the entire time.

You tend to drift, but you drift naturally.

I consider myself a racing game fanatic and rarely find this type of realism in a racing, because I most games you'll slide as oppose to drift and that makes a difference in high performance machines.

The flakes were not large, but unlike most gentle Ouray snow storms, they didn't drift to the ground like tiny dust motes.

The tide was coming in the time of night he was supposed to have drowned so the body would drift up the bay.