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Definition of 'raft'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) raft
a more or less rigid floating platform made of buoyant materials:
an inflatable rubber raft.

2.  raft
a collection of logs, planks, casks, etc., fastened together for floating on water.

3.  raft
a slab of reinforced concrete providing a footing on yielding soil, usu. for a whole building.

4. (v.t.) raft
to transport on a raft.

5.  raft
to form (logs or the like) into a raft.

6.  raft
to travel or cross by raft.

7.  raft
(of an ice floe) to transport (embedded organic or rock debris) from the shore out to sea.

8. (v.i.) raft
to use a raft; go or travel on a raft.

9. (Informal.) raft
a great quantity; a lot.

Etymology: (1825–35; var. of raff in sense “large number” (ME: abundance))

Definition of 'raft'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) raft
a flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers

2. (verb) batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"

3. (verb) raft
transport on a raft
"raft wood down a river"

4. (verb) raft
travel by raft in water
"Raft the Colorado River"

5. (verb) raft
make into a raft
"raft these logs"

Definition of 'raft'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) raft
an air-filled boat
They took a raft down the river.

2. raft
***a flat floating dock in the middle of an area of water
***We swam out to the raft.

3. raft
a raft of
a lot of
a raft of possibilities/options; a raft of new products

Definition of 'raft'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) raft
a collection of logs, boards, pieces of timber, or the like, fastened together, either for their own collective conveyance on the water, or to serve as a support in conveying other things; a float

2. (noun) raft
a collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. (such as is formed in some Western rivers of the United States), which obstructs navigation

3. (noun) raft
a large collection of people or things taken indiscriminately

4. raft
imp. & p. p. of Reave

5. raft
of Reave

6. (verb) raft
to transport on a raft, or in the form of a raft; to make into a raft; as, to raft timber

Translation of 'raft'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a number of logs, planks etc fastened together and used as a boat.
Afrikaans: vlot	Arabic: رَمْث، طَوْف	Bulgarian: сал
Brazilian: jangada	Czech: vor	German: das Floß
Danish: tømmerflåde	Greek: σχεδία	Spanish: balsa
Estonian: parv	Farsi: کلک؛ قایق الواری	Finnish: lautta
French: radeau	Hebrew: רַפסוֹדָה	Hindi: लठ्ठों का बेड़ा
Croatian: splav	Hungarian: tutaj	Indonesian: rakit
Icelandic: (timbur)fleki	Italian: zattera	Japanese: いかだ
Korean: 뗏목	Lithuanian: plaustas	Latvian: plosts
Malay: rakit	Dutch: vlot	Norwegian: (tømmer)flåte
Polish: tratwa	Persian: کلک؛ قایق الواری	Pashto: دړى چمبې، تمبى، هغه دړى چ
Portuguese: jangada	Romanian: plută	Russian: плот
Slovak: plť	Slovenian: splav	Serbian: splav
Swedish: flotte	Thai: แพ	Turkish: sal
Taiwanese: 木筏	Ukrainian: пліт	Urdu: لکڑیوں کا گٹھا جو کشتی کا
Vietnamese: bè gỗ	Chinese: 木筏
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