drifting
present participle ofdrift
| 单词 | drifting |
| 释义 | drifting present participle ofdrift drift verb[Iusually+ adv/prep] uk/drɪft/us/drɪft/C2 tomoveslowly,especiallyas aresultofoutsideforces, with nocontroloverdirection: No onenoticedthat theboathadbegunto driftouttosea. Amistdriftedinfrom themarshes. After thebandstoppedplaying,peopledriftedawayin twos and threes. figurativeThetalkdriftedaimlesslyfrom onesubjectto another. to move slowly
Slow and moving slowly
Idiomdrift with the tide Phrasal verbsdrift apart drift off Examplesofdriftingdrifting In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. This is why the absolute values shown aredriftingto the right. From theCambridge English Corpus Stationary anddriftingspiral waves of excitation in isolated cardiac muscle. From theCambridge English Corpus These solutions correspond to an approximately spherical interfacedriftingslowly towards the boundary, without changing its shape. From theCambridge English Corpus And at the same time they aredriftingaway from morals - one is the cause of the other. From theCambridge English Corpus In a plasma with negatively charged dust, electrostatic dust cyclotron waves can be driven unstable by ionsdriftingalong the magnetic field. From theCambridge English Corpus For a subset of neurons in our sample, we measured visual responses to adriftingsine-wave grating. From theCambridge English Corpus C: x-t plot of adriftingflicker-modulated second-order grating. From theCambridge English Corpus Necessity of acetylcholine for retinal directionally selective responses todriftinggratings in rabbit. From theCambridge English Corpus Therefore, in the second experiment, we measured temporal tuning functions of cor tical neurons usingdriftingplaid patterns (or thogonal contrast modulated sine-wave gratings). From theCambridge English Corpus The numbers indicate the angles between thedriftingcomponents. From theCambridge English Corpus But, some ganglion cells respond poorly, if at all to these stimuli, yet did respond to the gratings, particularly when they weredrifting. From theCambridge English Corpus It must also be noted that keeping the same grating's speed while changing the spatial frequency modifies thedriftingtemporal frequency. From theCambridge English Corpus Fordriftinggratings of optimal spatial configuration, lower contrasts produced less surround suppression resulting in increases in preferred size. From theCambridge English Corpus Open circles represent spatial-frequency tuning for first-order gratingsdriftingin the preferred direction. From theCambridge English Corpus Overall, the majority of neurons sampled in this study (1390 193) exhibited some modification of their responses by activation of surrounding regions withdriftinggratings. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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