Drift Apart

  

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Drift Apart

Definition: Drift Apart

Drift Apart

Verb

1. Lose personal contact over time; "The two women, who had been roommates in college, drifted apart after they got married".

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


Synonym: Drift Apart

Synonym: drift away (v). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Drift Apart

DomainUsage

Lyrics

As the days go by, we seem to drift apart (Valotte; performing artist: Julian Lennon)

Never will we drift apart (Ballerina Girl; performing artist: Lionel Richie)

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Commercial Usage: Drift Apart

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Music

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Modern Translation: Drift Apart

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

Bulgarian 

  

отчуждаваме се. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

joutua erilleen jostakin (become separated from). (various references)

   

German

  

auseinandertreiben (disperse, drive apart, scatter). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iftdray apartay

   

Romanian

  

se risipi (dissipate, melt away, scatter, waste, work off). (various references)

   

Thai

  

แยกกัน, พลั"กัน. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Drift Apart

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-f-i-p-r-r-t-t"

-3 letters: parfait, partita, rattrap, tripart.

-4 letters: adrift, afraid, ritard, tartar.

-5 letters: adapt, afrit, apart, atria, atrip, attar, draft, drift, dript, farad, friar, fritt, padri, pardi, radar, rapid, riata, tafia, tapir, tatar, tiara, trait, trapt, triad.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Drift Apart


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

44 72 69 66 74      41 70 61 72 74

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

    

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

01000100 01110010 01101001 01100110 01110100 00100000 01000001 01110000 01100001 01110010 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#114 &#105 &#102 &#116 &#32 &#65 &#112 &#97 &#114 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0072 0069 0066 0074      0041 0070 0061 0072 0074

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

388475728623582678486

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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