What is the meaning of drifting?

noun

• Aimless wandering from place to place.

verb

• Be in motion due to some air or water current.
  • usage: "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"
  • synonyms: float, drift, be adrift, blow
• Wander from a direct course or at random.
  • usage: "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course"
  • synonyms: stray, err, drift
• Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.
  • usage: "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"
  • synonyms: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond
• Vary or move from a fixed point or course.
  • usage: "stock prices are drifting higher"
  • synonyms: drift
• Live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely.
  • usage: "My son drifted around for years in California before going to law school"
  • synonyms: freewheel, drift
• Move in an unhurried fashion.
  • usage: "The unknown young man drifted among the invited guests"
  • synonyms: drift
• Cause to be carried by a current.
  • usage: "drift the boats downstream"
  • synonyms: drift
• Drive slowly and far afield for grazing.
  • usage: "drift the cattle herds westwards"
  • synonyms: drift
• Be subject to fluctuation.
  • usage: "The stock market drifted upward"
  • synonyms: drift
• Be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current.
  • usage: "snow drifting several feet high"; "sand drifting like snow"
  • synonyms: drift

adjective

• Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another.
  • usage: "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"
  • synonyms: aimless, floating, vagabond, vagrant