raft
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
raft (plural rafts)
- A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform.
- An inflatable raft. A log raft.
- (by extension) Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion.
- 2016 February 2, Kate Winslet & al., Jimmy Kimmel Live! ↗
- Even though in a way you let him freeze to death in the water, because the way I see it...
I agree. Y'know, I think he actually could have fitted on that bit of door.
There was plenty of room on the raft.
I know. I know, I know.
- Even though in a way you let him freeze to death in the water, because the way I see it...
- 2016 February 2, Kate Winslet & al., Jimmy Kimmel Live! ↗
- A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water.
- 2010, John Roome, A Persistent Passage (page 140)
- Pelicans, bills stuck forward, would gather in small rafts to move along in comical formation, before diving in unison […]
- 2010, John Roome, A Persistent Passage (page 140)
- (US) A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.
- (US, slang, when ordering food) A slice of toast.
- A square array of sensors forming part of a large telescope.
- French: canot pneumatique
- German: Schlauchboot
- Italian: gommone
- Russian: плот
raft (rafts, present participle rafting; past and past participle rafted)
- (transitive) To convey on a raft.
- (transitive) To make into a raft.
- (intransitive) To travel by raft.
- (GUI) To dock (toolbars, etc.) so that they share horizontal or vertical space.
- 2007, Dinesh Maidasani, Straight to the Point - Visual Basic 2005 (page 11)
- The
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provides built-in rafting and docking ofToolStrip
,MenuStrip
, andStatusStrip
controls.
- The
- 2007, Dinesh Maidasani, Straight to the Point - Visual Basic 2005 (page 11)
raft (plural rafts)
- A large (but unspecified) number, a lot.
- 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge 2008, p. 31:
- Among those arrested was the grand master himself, Jacques de Molay, who found himself facing a raft of charges based on the specious evidence of former knights [...].
- 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge 2008, p. 31:
- French: multitude, masse
- Italian: moltitudine
- Portuguese: multidão
- Russian: у́йма
- Spanish: multitud
- Simple past tense and past participle of reave
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