English Explanatory Dictionary

raft

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform.
  2. 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. A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.
  5. A slice of toast.
  6. A square array of sensors forming part of a large telescope.
  7. A mass of congealed solids that forms on a consommé because of the protein in the egg white.
verb
  1. To convey on a raft.
  2. To make into a raft.
  3. To travel by raft.
  4. To dock (toolbars, etc.) so that they share horizontal or vertical space.
noun
  1. A large (but unspecified) number, a lot.
verb
  1. simple past and past participle of reave
name
  1. Acronym of reliable, replicated, redundant, and fault-tolerant, a consensus algorithm.

Pronunciation

/ɹɑːft/ /ɹæft/ en-us-raft.ogg

Word forms

raft rafts rafting rafted

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”).

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

Afrikaans: vlot Albanian: trap Southern Altai: сал Arabic: طَوْف Arabic: رَمَث Armenian: լաստ Assamese: ভূৰ Assamese: ভেল Azerbaijani: sal Bashkir: һал Belarusian: плыт Bengali: ভেলা Bulgarian: сал Burmese: ဖောင် Catalan: rai Cebuano: gakit Chechen: бурам Classical Chinese: 槎 Chinese Mandarin: 木排 Chinese Mandarin: 筏 Chinese Mandarin: 木筏 Chinese Mandarin: 竹筏 Czech: vor Czech: plť Danish: flåde Dutch: vlot Esperanto: floso Estonian: parv Faroese: flaki Finnish: lautta French: radeau Galician: balsa Georgian: ტივი German: Floß Greek: σχεδία Ancient Greek: σχεδία Hebrew: רַפסוֹדָה Higaonon: gakit Hindi: बेड़ा Hungarian: tutaj Icelandic: fleki Ido: rafto Indonesian: rakit Irish: rafta Isnag: xakit Italian: zattera
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