Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having no purpose or perceptible trend; aimless or undirected.
- adjective Random; stochastic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without drift or aim; purposeless; aimless.
- Free from drift or driftage
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having no
drift ordirection ; withoutaim ;purposeless .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Moose may be somewhat restricted int heir move south because many of the marshy habitats they like are found in greater abundance in glaciated (young) terrain than in "driftless" or unglaciated (older, more eroded) terrain.
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The word "driftless" refers to the lack of gravelly drift in the region from the last glaciation 12,000 years ago.
NYT > Home Page 2009
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Gathering introduces us to how Seed Savers started as a dream on a small farm in Missouri, shows us how it went from there back to the author's ancestral home in the driftless region of Iowa, and how it has spread across the world through a contributing membership that numbers in the thousands.
Kurt Michael Friese: Memories of a Life Spent Saving Seeds Kurt Michael Friese 2011
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Gathering introduces us to how Seed Savers started as a dream on a small farm in Missouri, shows us how it went from there back to the author's ancestral home in the driftless region of Iowa, and how it has spread across the world through a contributing membership that numbers in the thousands.
Kurt Michael Friese: Memories of a Life Spent Saving Seeds Kurt Michael Friese 2011
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Gathering introduces us to how Seed Savers started as a dream on a small farm in Missouri, shows us how it went from there back to the author's ancestral home in the driftless region of Iowa, and how it has spread across the world through a contributing membership that numbers in the thousands.
Kurt Michael Friese: Memories of a Life Spent Saving Seeds Kurt Michael Friese 2011
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Gathering introduces us to how Seed Savers started as a dream on a small farm in Missouri, shows us how it went from there back to the author's ancestral home in the driftless region of Iowa, and how it has spread across the world through a contributing membership that numbers in the thousands.
Kurt Michael Friese: Memories of a Life Spent Saving Seeds Kurt Michael Friese 2011
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Red yellow podzolic soils cover driftless uplands underlain by gneiss, and red yellow podzols are found on Pre-Wisconsinan drift; soils are markedly different from those of Ecoregion 58i.
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In addition, discontinuous, Wisconsinan till is common, in contrast to Ecoregion 58h, which is either driftless or covered by Pre-Wisconsinan till.
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It was epically hilarious/bizarre/epic with a great cast of mid 20s and, later mid teens who were seemingly semi-driftless Britishers in the modern world.
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More than 90% of Ecoregion 58h in New Jersey is driftless.
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