drifting

/ˈdrɪftɪŋ/

意味: 漂流している／漂流

例文: Fluffin spent the day drifting on a leaf.
　　  フラッフィンは葉の上で一日漂っていた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: drifting snow(漂う雪), drifting sand(漂う砂), drifting aimlessly(目的なく漂う)

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。たとえば、ボートが水の上で流されることや、雪が風で舞うことを表します。方向や目的がなく、自然に任せて動くイメージです。

driftingは約300,000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: aimless wandering from place to place
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
Adjective: continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb, Adjective

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The leaves are drifting gently on the autumn breeze.(葉が秋の風にそよいでいる。)
We spent the afternoon drifting down the river in our kayak.(私たちはカヤックで川を下りながら午後を過ごした。)
Drifting thoughts often lead to profound insights in quiet moments.(漂う思考は静かな瞬間に深い洞察をもたらすことがよくある。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

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
Adjective: a drifting double-dealer
Adjective: the floating population
Adjective: vagrant hippies of the sixties

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): aimless, be adrift, blow, cast, drift, drifting, err, float, floating, freewheel, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, 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, travel, vary, wandering

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accompany, accrete, acetylate, adjust, advance, alkalinize, americanize, angle, ascend, assibilate, assimilate, assume, automobile, back, backlog, bang, barbarize, beetle, betake oneself, billow, boil, bounce, break, break into, breathe, breeze, brutalize, calcify, capacitate, caravan, carbonate, career, carry, caseate, catch, catch on, change by reversal, change integrity, change magnitude, change posture, change shape, change state, change surface, circle, circuit, circulate, clinker, co-vary, collapse, come, come in, come round, commute, complexify, concretize, conjugate, convert, cool, crack, crash, crawl, creolize, cruise, cure, damage, darken, dawn, deaden, decalcify, decarboxylate, decay, decrepitate, deepen, defervesce, democratize, deoxidize, derail, desalinate, descend, destabilize, develop, die, digest, dim, discolor, dissimilate, distill, do, drag, draw, dress, drift, drifting, drive, drop, dry, dull, ease, evaporate, fail, fall, fall for, felt, feminize, ferry, flip, float, flocculate, flock, fly, fold, follow, forge, form, format, foul, freewheel, freshen, gel, gelatinize, get around, ghost, give way, glaze, glide, go around, go out, gradate, grass, grow, gum, harden, have, hiss, hurtle, hush, hydrate, hydrolyze, ice up, incandesce, indurate, industrialize, introject, ionize, island hop, isomerize, keratinize, lance, leave, liberalize, lighten, lurch, make, mature, mellow, modernize, modify, mold, move, mutate, narrow, normalize, obsolesce, occult, opacify, outflank, oxidise, oxidize, pace, pall, pan, pass, pass over, plasticize, play, play out, plow, prance, precede, precess, prim, proceed, professionalize, promote, propagate, purify, pursue, push, raft, recede, receive, recombine, reflate, refloat, regenerate, regress, rejuvenate, relax, reorient, repair, repress, resume, reticulate, retreat, retrograde, return, ride, rise, roll, round, run, rush, salinate, saponify, scramble, seek, separate, sequester, settle, shade, shallow, shear, shift, shuttle, sift, ski, slice into, slither, smoothen, snowshoe, soften, solarize, speed, spot, stabilize, stagnate, steamer, steepen, step, stiffen, stratify, stray, strengthen, sublime, suburbanize, suffuse, superannuate, swap, swash, swim, swing, synthesize, taxi, tide, tighten, trail, tram, transaminate, transfer, transform, transpire, travel, travel by, travel purposefully, travel rapidly, trundle, turn, turn on, ulcerate, undergo, undulate, vascularize, vesiculate, vitrify, vulcanize, walk, warm, warm up, weave, wend, wheel, whine, whish, whisk, whistle, withdraw, zigzag, zoom

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): gallivant, maunder, stream, tide, waft

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

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

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb

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Suffixes(接尾辞): ing

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Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

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