Difference between Drifting and Adrift

DRIFTING vs ADRIFT: NOUN

A driving technique where the driver intentionally oversteers, causing loss of traction in the rear wheels, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner
Aimless wandering from place to place

Floating at random.
Absent from his watch.
Behind one's opponents, or below a required threshold in terms of score, number or position.
Afloat on the surface of a body of water
Aimlessly drifting

In a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves.
Floating freely; not anchored
Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.
Off course, wandering aimlessly
Off course

Not anchored
Floating freely
Floating at random; not fastened by any kind of moorings; at the mercy of winds and currents.
Hence Figuratively, swayed by any chance impulse; all abroad; at a loss.
(adverb; adjective) Without direction or purpose.
(adverb; adjective) Drifting or floating freely; not anchored.

Driftwood, Trend, Deviation, Tendency, Shift, Sliding, Creep, Shifting, Vagrant, Afloat, Vagabond, Unsettled, Aimless, Adrift, Floating

Astern, Stabiliser, Coaster, Derivation, Driftwood, Drift, Lost, Planless, Undirected, Purposeless, Aimless, Directionless, Afloat, Drifting, Rudderless

Driftwood, Trend, Deviation, Tendency, Shift, Sliding, Creep, Shifting, Vagrant, Afloat, Vagabond, Unsettled, Aimless, Adrift, Floating

Aground, Astern, Coaster, Derivation, Driftwood, Drift, Lost, Planless, Undirected, Purposeless, Aimless, Directionless, Afloat, Drifting, Rudderless

Earth, including people, from drifting off into space.
Weaving across the road or drifting fromside toanother.
Set out, drifting into small piece of Pacific?
Boat anglers areback drifting plugs or casting spawn.
Is the Chinese Economy Drifting, Tanking or Changing?
Sensor networks of freely drifting autonomous underwater explorers.
Look out for drifting snow on the roadway.
Drifting research stations are manned stations that move along with the drifting ice pack in the Arctic Ocean.
He was drifting, drifting like a fat white lazy cloud back and forth across the blue.
Imagine you are a feather drifting higher and higher, drifting further and further away from the earth, drifting gently across the sky.