The difference between Drift and Wander
When used as nouns, drift means movement, whereas wander means the act or instance of wandering.
When used as verbs, drift means to move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc, whereas wander means to move without purpose or specified destination.
check bellow for the other definitions of Drift and Wander
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Drift as a noun (physical):
Movement; that which moves or is moved. A driving; a violent movement. Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting. That which is driven, forced, or urged along. Anything driven at random. A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water. The distance through which a current flows in a given time. A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds. A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the retreat of continental glaciers, such as that which buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys. Driftwood included in flotsam washed up onto the beach.
Examples:
"a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, etc."
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Drift as a noun:
The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
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Drift as a noun:
A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
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Drift as a noun:
The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
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Drift as a noun (architecture):
The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
Examples:
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Drift as a noun (handiwork):
A tool. A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach. A tool used to pack down the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework. A tool used to insert or extract a removable pin made of metal or hardwood, for the purpose of aligning and/or securing two pieces of material together.
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Drift as a noun:
A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.
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Drift as a noun (mining):
A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
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Drift as a noun (nautical):
Movement. The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting. The distance a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes. The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece. The distance between the two blocks of a tackle. The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
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Drift as a noun (cricket):
A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
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Drift as a noun:
Slow, cumulative change.
Examples:
"genetic drift'"
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Drift as a verb (intransitive):
To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
Examples:
"The boat drifted away from the shore."
"The balloon was drifting in the breeze."
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Drift as a verb (intransitive):
To move haphazardly without any destination.
Examples:
"He drifted from town to town, never settling down."
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Drift as a verb (intransitive):
To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
Examples:
"This car tends to drift left at high speeds."
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Drift as a verb (transitive):
To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
Examples:
"rfquotek J. H. Newman"
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Drift as a verb (transitive):
To drive into heaps.
Examples:
"A current of wind drifts snow or sand"
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Drift as a verb (intransitive):
To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
Examples:
"Snow or sand drifts."
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Drift as a verb (mining, US):
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.
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Drift as a verb (transitive, engineering):
To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
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Drift as a verb:
To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See .
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Wander as a verb (intransitive):
To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
Examples:
"to wander over the fields"
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Wander as a verb (intransitive):
To stray; stray from one's course; err.
Examples:
"A writer wanders from his subject."
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Wander as a verb (intransitive):
To commit adultery.
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Wander as a verb (intransitive):
To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
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Wander as a verb (intransitive):
Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.
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Wander as a noun:
The act or instance of wandering.
Examples:
"To go for a wander"