drift

/dɹɪft/

意味: 漂う、流れること

例文: Kai let the donut drift away.
　　  カイがドーナツを流した。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: snow drift(雪の吹き溜まり), drift away(漂い去る), drift apart(疎遠になる)

定義: 風や水の流れによって、物がゆっくりと動くことを指します。また、意識や注意が徐々に他のことに移ることも意味します。

driftは約200,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a force that moves something along
Noun: the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane)
Noun: a process of linguistic change over a period of time
Noun: a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents
Noun: a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
Noun: the pervading meaning or tenor
Noun: a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
Verb: be in motion due to some air or water current
Verb: wander from a direct course or at random
Verb: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
Verb: vary or move from a fixed point or course
Verb: live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely
Verb: move in an unhurried fashion
Verb: cause to be carried by a current
Verb: drive slowly and far afield for grazing
Verb: be subject to fluctuation
Verb: be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The leaves began to drift gently to the ground.(葉が静かに地面に舞い落ち始めた。)
Let your worries drift away and enjoy the moment!(心配を手放して、その瞬間を楽しんで！)
As the ship began to drift, the captain assessed the situation carefully.(船が漂い始めると、船長は状況を慎重に見極めた。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book
Noun: a broad movement of the electorate to the right
Noun: caught the general drift of the conversation
Noun: they dug a drift parallel with the vein
Verb: The leaves were blowing in the wind
Verb: the boat drifted on the lake
Verb: The sailboat was adrift on the open sea
Verb: the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore
Verb: The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her
Verb: don’t drift from the set course
Verb: The gypsies roamed the woods
Verb: roving vagabonds
Verb: the wandering Jew
Verb: The cattle roam across the prairie
Verb: the laborers drift from one town to the next
Verb: They rolled from town to town
Verb: stock prices are drifting higher
Verb: My son drifted around for years in California before going to law school
Verb: The unknown young man drifted among the invited guests
Verb: drift the boats downstream
Verb: drift the cattle herds westwards
Verb: The stock market drifted upward
Verb: snow drifting several feet high
Verb: sand drifting like snow

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): be adrift, blow, cast, drift, err, float, freewheel, gallery, heading, impetus, impulsion, movement, purport, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, trend, vagabond, wander

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): accumulate, change, circulate, crop, exist, float, force, inclination, linguistic process, mass, natural process, passageway, tenor, travel, vary

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): absorption, accompany, accrete, acetylate, acidification, adiabatic process, adjust, advance, aeration, aerodynamic force, affinity, agglutination, aisle, alkalinize, americanize, angle, antiredeposition, arcade, areaway, ascend, assibilate, assimilate, assimilation, assume, attraction, automobile, back, backlog, bang, barbarize, beetle, bent, betake oneself, billow, boil, bounce, break, break into, breathe, breeze, brutalize, calcify, call, capacitate, capture, caravan, carbonate, career, carry, caseate, catch, catch on, centrifugal force, centrifugation, centripetal force, change by reversal, change integrity, change magnitude, change posture, change shape, change state, change surface, chemical process, chromatography, circle, circuit, circulate, clinker, co-vary, cohesion, collapse, come, come in, come round, commute, complexify, concretion, concretize, condensation, conjugate, convection, convert, cool, coprolith, coriolis force, corridor, crack, crash, crawl, creolize, cruise, curdling, cure, damage, darken, dawn, deaden, decalcify, decarboxylate, decay, decrepitate, deepen, defervesce, demagnetization, democratize, denominationalism, deoxidize, derail, derivation, desalinate, descend, desorption, destabilize, develop, devices, die, diffusion, digest, dim, direction, discolor, disfavor, dissimilate, dissimilation, dissolution, distill, distillation, do, drag, draw, dress, drift, drive, drop, dry, dull, ease, effervescence, electrophoresis, establishment, evaporate, extinction, extraction, fail, fall, fall for, favor, favoritism, feedback, felt, feminize, ferry, filtration, flip, float, flocculate, flocculation, flock, flow, fly, fold, follow, forge, form, format, formation, fossilization, foul, freewheel, freshen, fusion, gangway, gate, gel, gelatinize, geological process, get around, ghost, give way, glaze, glide, go around, go out, gradate, grass, grow, gum, harden, hardening, have, hiss, hurtle, hush, hydrate, hydrolyze, ice up, impartiality, inactivation, incandesce, indurate, industrialize, infection, introject, ion exchange, ionization, ionize, island hop, isomerize, keratinize, lance, leach, leave, lexicalization, liberalize, life force, lighten, literalism, lorentz force, lurch, magnetization, magnetomotive force, make, mat, materialization, mature, mellow, metathesis, modernize, modify, mold, moment, move, mutate, narrow, normalize, nuclear reaction, obsolesce, occult, omission, opacification, opacify, oscillation, outflank, oxidise, oxidize, oxygenation, pace, pair production, pall, pan, partiality, pass, pass over, perseveration, phase change, plasticize, play, play out, plow, prance, precede, precess, precession of the equinoxes, predisposition, prim, proceed, proclivity, professionalize, promote, propagate, propulsion, pull, pulp, purify, pursue, push, radiation, raft, reaction, recede, receive, recombine, reflate, refloat, regenerate, regress, rejuvenate, relax, release, reorient, repair, repress, repulsion, resume, reticulate, retreat, retrograde, return, ride, rise, roll, round, run, rush, salinate, saltation, saponify, scattering, scramble, seek, separate, sequester, sericulture, settle, shade, shaft, shallow, shear, shift, shuttle, sift, sink, ski, slice into, slither, smoothen, snowshoe, soak, soften, softening, solarize, sorption, source, speed, spot, stabilize, stagnate, steamer, steepen, step, stiffen, stiffening, stimulation, stratify, stray, strengthen, stress, sublime, suburbanize, succession, suffuse, superannuate, survival, swap, swash, swim, swing, sympathy, syneresis, synergy, synthesize, taxi, temperature change, tide, tighten, torsion, trail, tram, transaminate, transduction, transfer, transform, transpiration, transpire, travel, travel by, travel purposefully, travel rapidly, trundle, tunnel, turn, turn on, ulcerate, undergo, undulate, vascularize, vesiculate, vitrification, vitrify, vulcanize, walk, walk-through, warm, warm up, weave, wend, wheel, whine, whish, whisk, whistle, withdraw, zigzag, zoom

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): drumlin, evolutionary trend, gallivant, gravitation, leeway, maunder, melioration, snowdrift, stream, tide, waft

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: blow, drift, driftage, drifter, drifting, drive, errant, freewheeler, impel, ramble, rambler, roamer, roving, stray, strayer, tramp, vagabond, vagabondage, wanderer, wandering

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: descriptive, online

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

大学受験レベル

英検準2級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Holes

Movies(映画): The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: