raft

Substantiv

1. 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. 2

   Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion.

   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.

3. 3

   A thick crowd of aquatic birds, particularly a group floating on the surface of the water.

   Pelicans, bills stuck forward, would gather in small rafts to move along in comical formation, before diving in unison […]

   Occasionally, there was a large black raft of birds far out at sea.

   Margaret River itself, although it seems to be Scott River by Prevelly, flows into the Indian Ocean and creates a sandbank, where sat a raft of terns and gulls.

4. 4

   A thick crowd of aquatic birds, particularly a group floating on the surface of the water. A group of aquatic mammals, especially otters and especially when visible on the surface of the water.

   A raft of otters at rest in the river.

   Two score and more of young, able-bodied men they were, to be sure, strong enough, I dare say, to tow a raft of whales alongside in any latitude.

   News of Smith's discovery of the South Shetland Islands, and of the rafts of seals along their shores, spread quickly.

   a raft of otters was feeding at the depth of three hundred feet (50 fathoms)

5. 5

   A thick crowd of aquatic birds, particularly a group floating on the surface of the water. A group of alligators or crocodiles, especially when floating in water with their backs visible above the surface.

   She even pointed out a bank where a raft of crocodiles lay dozing, baking their scaly backs in the sun.

   navigation was obstructed by a raft of alligators

   There are monkeys, sloths, macaws, parrots, pigeons, toucans, and many other wood-loving creatures; herons, screamers, jacanas, and jabiru storks in the marshes, capybaras on the shores, and rafts of crocodiles on the playas.

6. 6

   A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.

7. 7

   SlangA slice of toast.

8. 8

   A square array of sensors forming part of a large telescope.

9. 9

   A mass of congealed solids that forms on a consommé because of the protein in the egg white.

Verb

1. 1

   To convey on a raft.

   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.

2. 2

   To make into a raft.

3. 3

   To travel by raft.

4. 4

   To dock (toolbars, etc.) so that they share horizontal or vertical space.

   The ToolStripContainer provides built-in rafting and docking of ToolStrip, MenuStrip, and StatusStrip controls.

Substantiv

1. 1

   A large (but unspecified) number, a lot.

   Among those arrested was the grand master himself, Jacques de Molay, who found himself facing a raft of charges based on the specious evidence of former knights [...].

   The goals and entertainment dried up after the break as Wales made a raft of substitutions but, with more meaningful challenges to come, a capacity crowd at the Stok Racecourse appreciated the bigger picture with Croatia on the horizon.

Verb

1. 1

   Auch eine Form von reavealtertümlichsimple past and past participle of reave

   Colin Clout raft me of his brother

Formen

Plural

rafts

Präteritum

rafted

Partizip II

rafted

Partizip I

rafting

3. Person Singular

rafts