adrift at sea

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• Adrift — may refer to: * ADRIFT, a graphical user interface used to create and play text adventures * Adrift (book), a book by Steven Callahan, seventy six days lost at sea * Adrift (book2), a book by Tristan Jones * Open Water 2, a film known as Adrift… …   Wikipedia

• Adrift — A*drift , adv. & a. [Pref. a (for on) + drift.] Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig. [1913 Webster] So on the sea shall be set adrift. Dryden. [1913 Webster] Were from their daily labor turned… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Adrift (book) — Adrift (subtitle: Seventy six days lost at sea) is a book by Steven Callahan about his survival in a life raft in the Atlantic Ocean, which lasted 76 days, a staggering record; he is the only man in history known to have survived more than a… …   Wikipedia

• adrift — adverb or adjective Date: 1624 1. without motive power and without anchor or mooring < a boat adrift on the sea > 2. without ties, guidance, or security < people morally adrift > 3. free from rest …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• adrift — 1. adjective /əˈdrɪft/ a) Floating at random. So on the sea shall be set adrift. Dryden. b) (of a seaman) Absent from his watch 2. adverb /əˈdrɪft/ In a …   Wiktionary

• adrift — adjective 1) their empty boat was spotted adrift Syn: drifting, unmoored, unanchored 2) adrift in a strange country Syn: lost, off course; disoriented, confused, at sea; drifting, rootless, unsettled …   Thesaurus of popular words

• adrift — adjective 1) adrift in a strange country Syn: lost, off course, drifting, disorientated, confused, (all) at sea, rootless, unsettled 2) informal the hook has come adrift Syn: loose, free …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

• sea — n 1. ocean, ocean blue, brine, Inf. briny, Inf. briny deep, Chiefly Literary. the deep, deep blue sea, Neptune s kingdom, hydrospace, Inf. the drink, Sl. the big drink; open ocean or sea, Literary. main, Literary. bounding main, high sea; Neptune …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• Sea of cubicles — A sea of cubicles floor plan showing repetitive, regimented cubicles Sea of cubicles (or cube farm or cubicle farm) is a derisive vernacular term for featureless, modern open office designs which consist of seemingly endless rows of identical… …   Wikipedia

• adrift — Synonyms and related words: abashed, aberrant, abroad, afloat, all abroad, all off, all wrong, alternating, amiss, amorphous, askew, astray, at fault, at sea, aweigh, awry, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, bewildered,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• adrift — adj, adv 1. drifting, unanchored, unmoored, tide borne, at the mercy of wind and tide; derelict, awash, Naut. ahull. 2. directionless, aimless, goalless, purposeless, rudderless, undirected; unstable, rootless, unsettled, insecure. 3. indecisive …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder