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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: driftage - dr. ing.</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="driftage"> driftage, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the act or process of drifting. <DD> 2. the distance drifted. <DD> 3. what has drifted; material that drifts around in water or is washed up on the shore. </DL> <A NAME="driftanchor"> drift anchor, =sea anchor.</DL> <A NAME="driftbolt"> driftbolt, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a bolt used for driving out other bolts. </DL> <A NAME="driftbottle"> drift bottle,<DL COMPACT><DD> a sealed bottle, carrying a message, set adrift at a specified point in the ocean. On its recovery, the known time and place of its entry and the time and place of its recovery indicate the speed and direction of ocean currents. </DL> <A NAME="drifter"> drifter, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a person or thing that drifts. <DD> 2. (Slang.) a vagrant; tramp. Ex. The speech of the two drifters is considered authentic rendition of low-pressure. Texas-drawl humor (Newsweek). <DD> 3. a boat for fishing with drift nets. Ex. Some drifters, unable to land their haul, left for fishing ports on the Continent (London Times). </DL> <A NAME="driftfence"> drift fence,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Western U.S.) a fence built to prevent cattle from drifting too far from their home range. </DL> <A NAME="driftice"> drift ice,<DL COMPACT><DD> masses of detached floating ice drifting with ocean currents or the wind. </DL> <A NAME="driftindicator"> drift indicator, =drift meter.</DL> <A NAME="driftless"> driftless, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. having no drift, direction, or purpose; aimless. <DD> 2. (Geology.) free from drift. noun driftlessness. </DL> <A NAME="driftlessarea"> driftless area,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Geology.) an area, including parts of the present states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois, which was presumably not covered by ice during the glacial epoch. </DL> <A NAME="driftmeter"> drift meter,<DL COMPACT><DD> an instrument for measuring the drift of aircraft; drift indicator. </DL> <A NAME="driftnet"> drift-net, intransitive verb, -netted, -netting.<DL COMPACT><DD> to fish with a drift net. Ex. Danish and Faroese fishermen drift-netting off western Greenland ... (London Times). noun drift-netter. </DL> <A NAME="driftnet"> drift net,<DL COMPACT><DD> a large fishing net that is set out in a long line, usually supported at the top edge by floats or buoys, used especially for herring fishing. </DL> <A NAME="driftpin"> drift pin,<DL COMPACT><DD> a smooth, tapered punch or guiding tool, used to draw adjacent pieces together to align holes for rivets or bolts. </DL> <A NAME="driftsail"> drift sail,<DL COMPACT><DD> a sea anchor made from a sail or the like. </DL> <A NAME="drifttube"> drift tube,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Electronics.) a hollow space or tube in a klystron or a linear accelerator, in which electrons move at a constant velocity. </DL> <A NAME="driftway"> driftway, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a road over which cattle, etc., are driven. <DD> 2. (Nautical.) leeway. <DD> 3. (Mining.) a drift (def. 9). </DL> <A NAME="driftweed"> driftweed, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> seaweed drifted on shore. </DL> <A NAME="driftwood"> driftwood, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> wood carried along by water; wood washed ashore from the water. </DL> <A NAME="drifty"> drifty, adjective, driftier, driftiest.<DL COMPACT><DD> characterized by drifts. </DL> <A NAME="drill"> drill (1), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a tool or machine for boring holes. Ex. The carpenter made a hole for the screw with his drill. <DD> 2. teaching or training by having the learners do a thing over and over for practice. Ex. The teacher gave the class plenty of drill in arithmetic. <DD> 3. group instruction and training in physical exercises or in marching, handling a gun, and other duties of soldiers. <DD> 4. any one of numerous marine snails that bore into and destroy oysters and other mollusks. <DD>v.t. 1. to bore a hole in; pierce with a drill. Ex. A pit was dug in the ice shelf to a depth of 14 metres (46 ft.), and various bore holes drilled to depths of as much as 100 metres (325 ft.) (E. F. Roots). <DD> 2. to teach by having the learner do a thing over and over again. <DD> 3. to cause to do military or physical exercises. Ex. The sergeant drilled the new soldiers. <DD> 4. (Slang.) to shoot at and hit. Ex. The sheriff drilled the outlaw with his gun. <DD>v.i. 1. to use a drill; pierce with a drill. Ex. That dull bit will not drill through the wood. <DD> 2. to be taught or trained by doing a thing over and over again. <DD> 3. to take part in military or physical exercises. </DL> <A NAME="drill"> drill (2), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a machine for planting seeds in rows. It makes a small hole or furrow, drops the seed, and then covers it. <DD> 2. a small furrow to plant seeds in. <DD> 3. a row of planted seeds. <DD>v.t. to plant in small furrows. </DL> <A NAME="drill"> drill (3), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a strong twilled cloth of cotton and formerly also of linen, used especially for overalls and linings; drilling. Ex. Volume had increased enough to allow some mills to raise their prices for drill fabrics (Wall Street Journal). </DL> <A NAME="drill"> drill (4), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a baboon of western Africa, with a black face and stumpy tail, of the same genus as the mandrill but smaller. </DL> <A NAME="drillable"> drillable, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be drilled. </DL> <A NAME="drillchuck"> drill chuck,<DL COMPACT><DD> an adjustable device to hold a drill. </DL> <A NAME="drillcollar"> drill collar,<DL COMPACT><DD> a joint of hollow steel pipe fastening the drill pipe to the bit. </DL> <A NAME="driller"> driller, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that drills. </DL> <A NAME="drillhole"> drill hole,<DL COMPACT><DD> an exploratory hole made by a drill in probing for mineral, gas, or oil deposits. Ex. The heavy trading was touched off by reports of a rich drill hole in a copper vein (Time). </DL> <A NAME="drilling"> drilling (1), noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. the act of a person or thing that drills. <DD> 2. the material removed by a drill. <DD> 3. training in military or physical exercises. <DD> 4. learning by doing a thing over and over again. <DD>adj. of, having to do with, or for drilling. Ex. a drilling site, a drilling barge. </DL> <A NAME="drilling"> drilling (2), noun. =drill (3).</DL> <A NAME="drillingmud"> drilling mud,<DL COMPACT><DD> mud used to lubricate the drills, especially in drilling for oil, made of local clay or of prepared compounds, such as barite, bentonite, and fuller's earth. </DL> <A NAME="drillinstructor"> drill instructor,<DL COMPACT><DD> an officer, usually noncommissioned, who drills soldiers in marching, handling guns, and other military maneuvers. Ex. ... the determined enthusiasm of a platoon of boots bent on appeasing an exacting drill instructor (Time). </DL> <A NAME="drillion"> drillion, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) an enormously large but indefinite number; zillion. Ex. ... a handful of bittersweet memories--plus about a drillion dollars from the dad who forgives him for marrying a Rhode Island Italian, now that she is dead (Time). </DL> <A NAME="drillmaster"> drillmaster, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. =drill instructor. <DD> 2. (Figurative.) a person who drills others in anything. </DL> <A NAME="drillpipe"> drill pipe,<DL COMPACT><DD> a pipe for driving a rotary drill, such as is used in well drilling. </DL> <A NAME="drillpress"> drill press,<DL COMPACT><DD> a machine tool for drilling holes, especially in metal. It usually has a frame in which the drill turns and is lowered toward the work. </DL> <A NAME="drillsergeant"> drill sergeant,<DL COMPACT><DD> a noncommissioned officer who serves as a drill instructor. </DL> <A NAME="drillship"> drillship, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a ship designed to drill for oil under water. Ex. The well was drilled to a depth of 354 metres into the sea bed, by the drillship Discoverer Seven Seas, 64 km south-east of Tarragona (New Scientist). </DL> <A NAME="drillstem"> drill stem,<DL COMPACT><DD> the part of a rotary drill that transmits power from the rotary table to the bit that grinds and crushes rocks. </DL> <A NAME="drillstock"> drillstock, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a holder for the shank of a drill. </DL> <A NAME="drillteam"> drill team,<DL COMPACT><DD> a team trained for exhibition in close-order military drill. Ex. In unison, like the answer of a drill team, came a shouted, single-syllable: "Yes!" (Atlantic). </DL> <A NAME="drillyard"> drill yard,<DL COMPACT><DD> a special railroad yard for receiving, classifying, and forwarding freight cars. </DL> <A NAME="drily"> drily, adverb. =dryly.</DL> <A NAME="drin"> drin, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a group of toxic chemicals made of chlorinated hydrocarbons, used chiefly as insecticides. Ex. Marcus Fox, Under Secretary of State for the Environment, told the House that the drins should indeed be controlled, but that they are not in wide use (New Scientist). </DL> <A NAME="drinamyl"> drinamyl, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a narcotic drug combining a barbiturate and an amphetamine in the form of a tablet; purple heart. </DL> <A NAME="dring"> Dr. Ing.,<DL COMPACT><DD> Doctor of Engineering (German, Doktor-Ingenieur). </DL> <A HREF="drink.dic">NEXT</A>