different between drifting vs driting

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??ft??/

Adjective

drifting (not comparable)

1. Moving aimlessly or at the mercy of external forces.

2. Without direction, focus, or goal.
   • 1930, John Cowper Powys, The Meaning of Culture, Chapter X:

     There is nothing more expressive of a barbarous and stupid lack of culture than the half-unconscious attitude so many of us slip into, of taking for granted, when we see weak, neurotic, helpless, drifting, unhappy people, that it is by reason of some special merit in us or by reason of some especial favour towards us that the gods have given us an advantage over such persons.

Translations

Noun

drifting (countable and uncountable, plural driftings)

1. The act by which something drifts.
2. That which drifts.
3. (motorsports) A driving technique where the driver intentionally oversteers, causing loss of traction in the rear wheels, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner.

Verb

drifting

1. present participle of drift

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dr??t?ng, IPA^(key): /?d?a?t??/

Verb

driting

1. present participle of drite

Anagrams

• dirting, triding