raft
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
cooking
engineering
food
graphical-user-interface
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Late Middle English, of North Germanic origin, from West Old Norse raptr, from Proto-Germanic *raf-tra-, from Proto-Indo-European *rap-tro-, from *rep- (“stake, beam”). See also Norwegian raft (“beam, rafter”), Danish raft (“thin pole”). Compare also Albanian trap (“raft, ferry”).
Inflected forms:
form: rafts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rafts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rafting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rafted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rafted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform.
pos: noun
examples: They floated down the river on an inflatable raft
gloss: Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: When George Stephenson built the Liverpool & Manchester Railway he encountered the same difficulty at Chat Moss and solved the problem by constructing a kind of raft made of brushwood that more or less floated on the surface of the bog. On this he placed as much firm soil as his raft could carry, when the operation was repeated, the first raft being thereby sunk with its load of solid earth, which was not displaced.
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.
gloss: A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water.
pos: noun
examples: Pelicans, bills stuck forward, would gather in small rafts to move along in comical formation, before diving in unison […]
gloss: A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A slice of toast.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
gloss: A square array of sensors forming part of a large telescope.
pos: noun
gloss: A mass of congealed solids that forms on a consommé because of the protein in the egg white.
pos: noun
gloss: To convey on a raft.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For timber I imported pine logs from Manchuria, rafted them two hundred miles down the Yalu River, three hundred miles over the Yellow Sea, and twenty miles up the Tatung River, where a thirty-five-foot tide lifted the consignment to Pyongyang.
gloss: To make into a raft.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To travel by raft.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To dock (toolbars, etc.) so that they share horizontal or vertical space.
pos: verb
examples: The ToolStripContainer provides built-in rafting and docking of ToolStrip, MenuStrip, and StatusStrip controls.
Related words: rafter
whitewater rafting
Derived words: Adam and Eve on a raft
cataraft
Christ on a raft
fire raft
life raft
Moses on a raft
packraft
pumice raft
raftable
raftage
raft dog
raft duck
raftless
raftlike
raftload
raftman
raftmate
raftophilic
raft port
raft-rope
raftsman
raftswoman
raft-up
skinheads on a raft
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: vlot
lang: Albanian
word: trap
lang: Southern Altai
word: сал
roman: sal
lang: Arabic
word: طَوْف
roman: ṭawf
lang: Arabic
word: رَمَث
roman: ramaṯ
lang: Armenian
word: լաստ
roman: last
lang: Assamese
word: ভূৰ
roman: bhur
lang: Assamese
word: ভেল
roman: bhel
lang: Azerbaijani
word: sal
lang: Bashkir
word: һал
roman: hal
lang: Belarusian
word: плыт
roman: plyt
lang: Bengali
word: ভেলা
roman: bhela
lang: Bulgarian
word: сал
roman: sal
lang: Burmese
word: ဖောင်
roman: hpaung
lang: Catalan
word: rai
lang: Cebuano
word: gakit
lang: Chechen
word: бурам
roman: buram
lang: Classical Chinese
word: 槎
roman: chá
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 木排
roman: mùpái
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 筏
roman: fá
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 木筏
roman: mùfá
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 竹筏
roman: zhúfá
lang: Czech
word: vor
lang: Czech
word: plť
lang: Danish
word: flåde
lang: Dutch
word: vlot
lang: Esperanto
word: floso
lang: Estonian
word: parv
lang: Faroese
word: flaki
lang: Finnish
word: lautta
lang: French
word: radeau
lang: Galician
word: balsa
lang: Georgian
word: ტივი
roman: ṭivi
lang: German
word: Floß
lang: Greek
word: σχεδία
roman: schedía
lang: Ancient Greek
word: σχεδία
roman: skhedía
lang: Hebrew
word: רַפסוֹדָה
roman: rafsodá
lang: Higaonon
word: gakit
lang: Hindi
word: बेड़ा
roman: beṛā
lang: Hungarian
word: tutaj
lang: Icelandic
word: fleki
lang: Ido
word: rafto
lang: Indonesian
word: rakit
lang: Irish
word: rafta
lang: Isnag
word: xakit
lang: Italian
word: zattera
lang: Japanese
word: いかだ
roman: ikada
lang: Kamta
word: ভূৰা
roman: bhura
lang: Kamta
word: ভূরা
lang: Kamta
word: bhura
lang: Kazakh
word: сал
roman: sal
lang: Khmer
word: ក្បូន
roman: kboon
lang: Korean
word: 뗏목
roman: ttenmok
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: kelek
lang: Kyrgyz
word: сал
roman: sal
lang: Lao
word: ແພ
roman: phǣ
lang: Latgalian
word: sīlejs
lang: Latin
word: trabica
lang: Latin
word: ratis
lang: Latvian
word: plosts
lang: Lithuanian
word: plaustas
lang: Macedonian
word: сплав
roman: splav
lang: Malay
word: rakit
lang: Maltese
word: ċatra
lang: Manchu
word: ᠠᡩᠠ
roman: ada
lang: Western Bukidnon Manobo
word: gakit
lang: Mansaka
word: gakit
lang: Māori
word: mōkihi
lang: Māori
word: mōkī
lang: Mongolian
word: сал
roman: sal
lang: Navajo
word: tsin naaʼeeł
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: flåte
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: flote
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: flåte
lang: Pashto
word: سل
roman: sal
lang: Dari
word: سَل
roman: sal
lang: Iranian Persian
word: کَرَجی
roman: karaji
lang: Iranian Persian
word: کَلَک
roman: kalak
lang: Iranian Persian
word: بَلَم
roman: balam
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Plut
lang: Polish
word: tratwa
lang: Portuguese
word: balsa
lang: Portuguese
word: jangada
lang: Punjabi
word: ਬੇੜਾ
roman: beṛā
lang: Romanian
word: plută
lang: Russian
word: плот
roman: plot
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: спла̑в
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: splȃv
lang: Slovak
word: plť
lang: Slovene
word: splav
lang: Spanish
word: balsa
lang: Swedish
word: flotte
lang: Sylheti
word: ꠜꠥꠞꠣ
roman: búra
lang: Tagalog
word: lamo
lang: Tajik
word: амад
roman: amad
lang: Tajik
word: сал
roman: sal
lang: Tatar
word: сал
roman: sal
lang: Telugu
word: తెప్ప
roman: teppa
lang: Thai
word: แพ
roman: pɛɛ
lang: Tocharian B
word: plewe
lang: Turkish
word: sal
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: صال
roman: sal
lang: Turkmen
word: sal
lang: Ukrainian
word: пліт
roman: plit
lang: Urdu
word: بیڑا
roman: beṛā
lang: Uyghur
word: سال
roman: sal
lang: Uzbek
word: sol
lang: Vietnamese
word: bè
lang: Volapük
word: floted
lang: Volapük
word: boadafloted
lang: Welsh
word: rafft
lang: Yiddish
word: פּליט
roman: plit