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 Definitions of raft  [æft, rɑft]  

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

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