DRIFTLESS

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DRIFTLESS

Definition: DRIFTLESS

DRIFTLESS

Adjective

1. Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Synonyms within Context: DRIFTLESS

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Intention	Random, indiscriminate, promiscuous; undirected; aimless, driftless, designless, purposeless, causeless; without purpose.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Commercial Usage: DRIFTLESS

Domain	Title
Books	The Sleep of the Aborigines (The Driftless Trilogy) (reference) Of Rivers & Bluffs: A Pictorial Tour of the Driftless Area of Western Wisconsin & Eastern Minnesota (reference) Fly Fishing Midwestern Spring Creeks--Angler's Guide to Trouting the Driftless Area (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: DRIFTLESS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
driftless area	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: DRIFTLESS

Language		Translations for "DRIFTLESS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Russian		бессмысленный (blank, crack-brained, fatuous, headless, kill time, meaningless, mindless, nonsensial, nonsensical, pointless, senseless, unmeaning, wanton). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: DRIFTLESS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-f-i-l-r-s-s-t"
	-1 letter: riftless, stiflers.
	-2 letters: delists, dissert, filters, flirted, lifters, listers, relists, resifts, sidlers, sifters, sliders, stifled, stifler, stifles, strides, strifes, trifled, trifles.
	-3 letters: deists, delfts, delist, desist, direst, driest, drifts, feists, felids, fields, filers, filets, filses, filter, firsts, fisted, fliers, fliest, flirts, flited, flites, frises, idlers, idlest, islets, istles, itself, lifers, lifted, lifter, listed.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-f-i-l-r-s-s-t"
	+2 letters: distressful, federalists, fieldstrips, trisulfides.
	+4 letters: chesterfields, disrespectful, distressfully.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: DRIFTLESS

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 52 49 46 54 4C 45 53 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01010010 01001001 01000110 01010100 01001100 01000101 01010011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#82 &#73 &#70 &#84 &#76 &#69 &#83 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0052 0049 0046 0054 004C 0045 0053 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

385243405446395353

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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