[
US
/ˈɹæft/
]
[ UK /ɹˈɑːft/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈɑːft/ ]
NOUN
- a flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers
- a foundation (usually on soft ground) consisting of an extended layer of reinforced concrete
-
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
a batch of letters
a slew of journalists
a lot of money
a wad of money
it must have cost plenty
a deal of trouble
he made a mint on the stock market
VERB
-
transport on a raft
raft wood down a river -
make into a raft
raft these logs -
travel by raft in water
Raft the Colorado River
How To Use raft In A Sentence
- The aircraft descended into a wetland area and had since been forgotten about as it sank below the surface. Times, Sunday Times
- Concentration now had to be aimed at the means of transporting the aircraft from the field to the carrier in Glasgow.
- Lovecraft dealt not with the supernatural but with the "supernormal," as Joshi puts it -- the unrealized side of material reality. The Lovecraft News Network
- The aerobrake - a huge, convex disc underneath the spacecraft - was producing friction with the Martian atmosphere.
- As a book about a nonoperational aircraft, Valkyrie will probably attract only a limited audience within the Air Force community.
- By recording the spectra of several distant quasars whose light pierces the Milky Way, the spacecraft revealed some 50 ultraviolet-absorbing gas clouds around our galaxy.
- I was always a bit arty-crafty. Times, Sunday Times
- I befriended a couple of the kids, and together we built a raft that we would row down the Dodder as far as the great waterfall in Donnybrook.
- First to unfold were the two 14-foot-wide drogue chutes, which oriented the craft and continued slowing it.
- The men practised various traditional crafts, such as carving toys out of bone.