Drift and Thought

Drift

Drift noun - A pile or ridge of granular matter (as sand or snow).

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Thought and drift are semantically related In some cases you can use "Thought" instead a noun "Drift".

Nearby Words: drifted, drifting, drifter, driftage

Thought noun - A careful weighing of the reasons for or against something.

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Drift and thought are semantically related in idea topic. Sometimes you can use "Drift" instead a noun "Thought".

clear	clear drift	clear thought
pure	pure drift	pure thought
original	original drift	original thought
initial	initial drift	initial thought
Other adjectives: deep, general, political, further.

A programmer spent one of his lunch breaks trying to make the boar drift, and the producers thought it was too funny to not add.

Source: Multi-Track Drifting
Rogue planets, thought to have been flung out of their solar systems by gravitational effects from passing planets or stars, drift in the emptiness between stars, with no sun to illuminate them.

Source: The Night That Never Ends
The TV series uses this as a Hand Wave to explain why they never found any other gates until they thought to make the dialing computer take stellar drift into account.

Source: Film / Stargate

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