The process whereby sand and shingle move along a beach shoreline when waves approach the shore at an angle.

(genetics, evolutionary theory) An overall shift of allele distribution in an isolated population, due to random fluctuations in the frequencies of individual alleles of the genes.

The tendency of an organism to revert to instinctive behaviors that can interfere with the conditioned response.

(idiomatic) To understand, at least on some basic or general level.

(geology) The slow movement of continents explained by plate tectonics.

The space in an electron tube in which there is no modulated field

Alternative spelling of snowdrift

(nonstandard, proscribed) Eggcorn of midriff.

During the act of drifting.

(UK, law, obsolete) An examination or view of the cattle in a forest, in order to see who they belong to and whether they are commonable, and to determine whether or not the forest is surcharged.