"indrift" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "in + drift",
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      "form": "indrifts",
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      "form": "indrifting",
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      "form": "indrifted",
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          "ref": "1876, Edward Dutton Cook, A Book of the Play",
          "text": "It was as one of the old Cinque Ports which the departing sea and the ever indrifting sand have left high and dry, unapproachable by water, a port only in name.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1894, Beatrice Whitby, Mary Fenwick's Daughter: A Novel, page 272",
          "text": "She took her spirit-lamp from her dressing-bag and lit the feeble flame, a poor light enough, but by it they stuffed up cracks and crannies through which the snow indrifted ; they must exclude, if possible, the snow which melted in the carriage, adding dampness to the biting cold.",
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        {
          "ref": "1995, Attilio Bisio, Sharon Boots, Encyclopedia of Energy Technology and the Environment",
          "text": "However, restoration by indrifting of replacement organisms is continuous, and any gaps in marine communities are likely quickly filled in.",
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        "To drift in."
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  "etymology_text": "in + drift",
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          "ref": "1876, Josiah Crampton, The three heavens, page 38",
          "text": "Thus often does the thunder-cloud, advancing slowly towards us, seem to be propelled (apparently against the wind), so as to induce us to thing ourselves safe from its approach; but this is a deception, the current blowing from us towards it being but an indrift towards the higher temperature of the cloud, and the attraction caused by its electrical nature creating a partial or comparative vacuum.",
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        {
          "ref": "1888, James Howard Bridge, Uncle Sam at Home, page 166",
          "text": "With the present indrift of radical legislation to manhood suffrage and paid politicians in England, such lessons as we can draw from the experience of America are especially valuable.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1980, New Zealand Geological Survey, New Zealand Geological Survey paleontological bulletin",
          "text": "There is little sign of indrift from nearby habitats, the accumulation probably providing a good and little disturbed record of brachiopods that grew there.",
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        "The act of indrifting."
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  "word": "indrift"
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1894, Beatrice Whitby, Mary Fenwick's Daughter: A Novel, page 272",
          "text": "She took her spirit-lamp from her dressing-bag and lit the feeble flame, a poor light enough, but by it they stuffed up cracks and crannies through which the snow indrifted ; they must exclude, if possible, the snow which melted in the carriage, adding dampness to the biting cold.",
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        },
        {
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          "text": "However, restoration by indrifting of replacement organisms is continuous, and any gaps in marine communities are likely quickly filled in.",
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        "To drift in."
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          "ref": "1876, Josiah Crampton, The three heavens, page 38",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1888, James Howard Bridge, Uncle Sam at Home, page 166",
          "text": "With the present indrift of radical legislation to manhood suffrage and paid politicians in England, such lessons as we can draw from the experience of America are especially valuable.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, New Zealand Geological Survey, New Zealand Geological Survey paleontological bulletin",
          "text": "There is little sign of indrift from nearby habitats, the accumulation probably providing a good and little disturbed record of brachiopods that grew there.",
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        }
      ],
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        "The act of indrifting."
      ]
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