raft

noun · verbA1

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noun

Plural noun:

rafts

1.
A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform.
They floated down the river on an inflatable raft
2.
(broadly)(by extension) Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion.
3.
A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water.
4.
(US)A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.
5.
(US, slang)(US, slang, when ordering food) A slice of toast.
6.
A square array of sensors forming part of a large telescope.
7.
(cooking) A mass of congealed solids that forms on a consommé because of the protein in the egg white.
8.
A large (but unspecified) number, a lot.
1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Pomeroy asked me a raft of factual-type questions (how old were you when you began menstruating? did you ever see your parents having intercourse? did you have many friends in high school? how was your relationship with your father?). It seemed he had a written questionnaire & checked off answers as I have them.

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verb

V_es/s

rafts

V_ing/Gerund

rafting

V_ed/pp

rafted

1.
(transitive)To convey on a raft.
2.
(transitive)To make into a raft.
3.
(intransitive)To travel by raft.
4.
(graphical user interface) To dock (toolbars, etc.) so that they share horizontal or vertical space.
5.
(archaic, form of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of reave

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thumb|An inflatable life raft thumb|A wooden raft Late Middle English -, of - origin, from West Old Norse raptr, from Proto-Germanic *raf-tra-, from Proto-Indo-European *rap-tro-, from *rep- (stake, beam). See also raft, raft. Compare also trap.