The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon
the abutments.

A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which
have been distributed over large portions of the earth’s surface,
especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice.

The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the
like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or
meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.

A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.

That which is driven, forced, or urged along

Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.

A driving; a violent movement.

f. sürüklenmek, kapılmak, akışına kaptırmak. You drift yourself into the acts in this book. (Bu kitapta kendinizi olayların akışına kaptırıyorsunuz.)

The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or
drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.

A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward
together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or
water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like.