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Drift Off

Definition: Drift Off

Drift Off

Verb

1. Change from a waking to a sleeping state; "he always falls asleep during lectures".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Drift Off

Synonyms: dope off (v), doze off (v), drop off (v), drowse off (v), fall asleep (v), flake out (v), nod off (v). (additional references)
Antonym: wake up (v). (additional references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Drift Off

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dream drift off travis tritt

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Drift Off

Language Translations for "drift off"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

abdriften. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

membias, empar (be off course). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iftdray offay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Drift Off

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-f-f-f-i-o-r-t"

-3 letters: drift, droit, fiord.

-4 letters: dirt, doff, doit, fido, ford, fort, frit, riff, rift, riot, roti, tiff, tiro, toff, tori, trio, trod.

-5 letters: dit, dor, dot, fid, fir, fit, for, fro, iff, off, oft, ort, rid, rif, rod, rot, tod, tor.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Drift Off


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

44 72 69 66 74      4F 66 66

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

    

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

01000100 01110010 01101001 01100110 01110100 00100000 01001111 01100110 01100110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#114 &#105 &#102 &#116 &#32 &#79 &#102 &#102

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0072 0069 0066 0074      004F 0066 0066

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

38847572862497272

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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