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Definition: Raft |
RaftNoun1. A flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers. 2. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent: "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty". Verb1. Transport on a raft; "raft wood down a river". 2. Travel by raft in water; "Raft the Colorado River". 3. Make into a raft; "raft these logs". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "raft" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A continuous slab of concrete, generally reinforced, laid over the ground as a foundation for a structure. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a raft, denotes that you will go into new locations to engage in enterprises, which will prove successful. To dream of floating on a raft, denotes uncertain journeys. If you reach your destination, you will surely come into good fortune. If a raft breaks, or any such mishap befalls it, yourself or some friend will suffer from an accident, or sickness will bear unfortunate results. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | A collection of timber(generally round)or of bamboos, tied together or enclosed within a boom, for transport by floating. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | See:float coal. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Children successfully test their raft, in Brixham harbour, south Devon, England. The raft is made from wooden poles, rope and blue barrels.
Larger version
A raft is a type of boat which floats by virtue of its own buoyancy rather than relying upon having a hull to keep water out.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Raft."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
RAFT | English | Revolving acceptance facility by tender | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: RaftSynonyms: batch (n), deal (n), flock (n), good deal (n), great deal (n), hatful (n), heap (n), lot (n), mass (n), mess (n), mickle (n), mint (n), muckle (n), peck (n), pile (n), plenty (n), pot (n), quite a little (n), sight (n), slew (n), spate (n), stack (n), tidy sum (n), wad (n), whole lot (n), whole slew (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ship | Boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, ferry oat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully, bateau battery, broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot; shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Raft |
| English words defined with "raft": balsa raft, Boat hook, Bunder ♦ Carling float, current ♦ Fire raft ♦ go down, go under ♦ Kon Tiki ♦ life raft ♦ Radeau, Rafted, rafter, Rafting, raftman, raftsman ♦ settle, sink, stream ♦ underestimate, underrate ♦ Water spider. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "raft": current retard ♦ Davis raft, Donegild ♦ POWERED BRIDGE SPECIALIST ♦ SUPERVISOR, LOG SORTING ♦ tree retard. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "raft": reave. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Raft" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (cupboard, press, rack, shelf), Romanian (board, bookstand, shelf). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | That I got into Raft because they didn't meet me (Is It College Yet?; writing credit: Glenn Eichler; Peggy Nicoll) Great! We'll have to sail a raft to Fiji like Thor Heyerdahl (Quick Change; writing credit: Howard Franklin) Luke, um, that's not a bed, that's a raft, which is fine if you're gonna build a moat around the diner but (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) I'm Riff-Raff Sam, the riffiest riff that ever riffed a raft! (Sahara Hare; writing credit: Warren Foster) | |
Lyrics | Drift away like Tom Sawyer, ride a raft with ol' Huck Finn (Mountain Music; performing artist: ALABAMA; writing credit: Randy Owen) Well, I built me a raft and she's ready for floatin' (Black Water; performing artist: Doobie Brothers) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The George Raft Story (1961) A Yellow Raft in Blue Water (2003) Flying Raft (1990) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Pictured are various children playing on a homemade raft and with a rubber innertube, used as a float. They are playing in a swimming pond, in a rural setting on a summer day. These children are members of a larger Mormon family who are presently being studied for their low cancer death rate. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | Apollo 11 Crew in Raft before Recovery. Credit: NASA. |
 | Logs rafted for towing. Lt.(j.g.) Tuell standing on raft. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Log raft at Hobart Bay on east side of Stephens Passage. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Dog on raft, Gulkana NWSR. Credit: James Thomson. |  | Raft on river. Credit: Unknown. |
 | Painting by F. Luis Mora, depicting Lt(JG) Kalk assisting survivors of USS Jacob Jones (Destroyer # 61) after she was sunk by the German submarine U-53 off the Scilly Isles on 6 December 1917. A plaque accompanying this painting read: "The Jacob Jones was sunk by an enemy torpedo between Brest and Queenstown. Lieutenant (jg) S.F. Kalk rendered conspicuous and gallant services after the ship sank by helping men from one raft to another so as to equalize the weight on the rafts. He died of exposure and exhaustion in order to save others. Lieutenant (jg) Kalk was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal posthumously.". Credit: NAVY. |  | Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862, depicting USS Clifton playing a fire hose on the Confederate fire raft, as it drifted past Union ships on the lower Mississippi River on 17 April 1862. Credit: NAVY. |
 | David Eagle at the split of the California and Oregon Trails, Raft River, Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Actor George Raft (right) with his arm around the shoulder of Bugsy Siegel. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Play | Caption |
 | Horn; boat; harbor; yacht; baiter; baitskiff; barge; bark; bateau; canoe; catamaran; craft; dinghy; dory; dragger; highliner; hulk; ketch; launch; lifeboat; mackinaw; pointer; raft; rodney; sailboat; schooner; scow; shallop; ship; skiff; sloop; steamboat. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In a given time, every barricade which holds out, inevitably becomes the raft of le Meduse |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | In the course of the summer I had discovered a raft of pitch pine logs with the bark on, pinned together by the Irish when the railroad was built |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Cuba | The Penal Code provides for imprisonment of up to 3 years or a fine of $15 to $50 (300 to 1,000 pesos) for unauthorized departures by boat or raft. (references) |
Economic History | Ireland | Also as part of the privatization, Eircom sold off the state-owned cable network, "Cablelink," to "NTL," an Anglo-U.S. firm, which is presently launching a raft of telecommunications services ranging from an extension of the cable network to the provision of next generation Internet facilities. (references) |
Political Economy | IRELAND | The market for leased lines and other data transmission services was progressively liberalized earlier in the 1990s. Telecom Eireann was publicly floated on the Dublin and New York stock exchanges in May 1999, under its new name "Eircom." As part of privatization, Eircom sold off the state-owned cable network, "Cablelink" to "Ntl," an Anglo-U.S. firm, which is presently launching a raft of telecommunications services ranging from an extension of the cable network to the provision of next generation internet facilities. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Raft" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.07% of the time. "Raft" is used about 253 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.07% | 238 | 19,410 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.56% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.58% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.4% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 0.4% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 253 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Raft International P.L.C. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "raft": air raft ♦ balsa raft ♦ Davis raft ♦ Fire raft ♦ foundation raft ♦ inflatable raft ♦ life raft ♦ raft bridge ♦ raft duck ♦ raft foundation ♦ raft of ♦ raft port ♦ raft spider ♦ rubber raft. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "raft": life-raft. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
raft | 1,476 | rubber raft | 16 |
raft of the medusa | 46 | adam eve raft | 15 |
inflatable raft | 44 | white water raft | 14 |
life raft | 38 | grand canyon raft | 14 |
atlantic raft | 36 | ocean raft | 12 |
pacific raft | 35 | raft frame | 12 |
whitewater raft | 30 | used raft | 10 |
george raft | 28 | company glacier raft | 10 |
yellow raft in blue water | 25 | raft rental | 10 |
usa raft | 25 | foundation pile raft raft | 9 |
raft swim | 23 | raft rio | 9 |
american river raft rental | 22 | panama raft | 8 |
building raft | 21 | raft trailer | 8 |
build raft | 21 | blue raft water yellow | 8 |
grand canyon raft trip | 20 | kon material raft tiki | 8 |
pool raft | 18 | colorado raft trip | 8 |
river raft | 18 | guided raft tour | 8 |
raft trip | 18 | kon raft tiki | 8 |
gericault raft of the medusa | 16 | race raft | 7 |
guided river raft salmon tour | 16 | raft swimming | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "raft"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | trap (booby, cockeyed, Dick, ditch, Dong, dope, duffer, dumbbell, ferry, float, moron, pontoon, prick, prune, sap, sap-head, snare), transportoj tungje, transportim tungjesh (rafting), traget (train ferry), grumbullim zogjesh. (various references) | |
Arabic | مجموعة كبيرة (crowd, flock), عوامة (buoy, fleet, float, pontoon, water wings), طوف (dinghy), الأساس (backbone, basis, corner stone, fundamental, radix), رمث يركب البحر. (various references) | |
Basque | almadia. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сал (float, float-board), куп (accumulation, agglomeration, amassment, bunch, bundle, clamp, cluster, congeries, crop, crowd, cumulation, cumulus, heap, hoard, huddle, knot, lashings, lump, mass, mint, mound, mountain, pack, parcel, pile, ruck, scad, shoal, sight, slathers, stack, tumble), голямо количество (acres, body, bushel, cart load, gob, mass, oodles, quantities, quantity, slathers, stack, swag, volume, volumes, wads), прекарвам със сал, плот (broad board, pane), изобилие (abundance, affluence, amplitude, exuberance, fertility, flush, flushness, galore, lashings, liberality, luxuriance, opulence, plenitude, prodigality, productiveness, productivity, profusion, quantities, quantity, redundance, redundancy, richness, spate, store, superfluity, teeming). (various references) | |
Chinese | 筏 , 木筏 (rafts), 楂 (Chinese quince, fell trees, hawthorn, to hew), 棑 (shield, stern of junk). (various references) | |
Czech | vor (float, floater), trám (balk, beam, girder, joist, spar, strut, timber). (various references) | |
Danish | ponton (barge, dummy, flat, float, float body, pontoon), platform (formation, operating platform, operator's control platform, platform), pladefundament (base, bedplate, foundation mat, foundation raft, foundation slab, mat footing, mat foundation, raft foundation), flåde (fleet). (various references) | |
Dutch | vlot (easy, facile, free, smooth, unchecked). (various references) | |
Esperanto | floso. (various references) | |
Faeroese | flaki. (various references) | |
Farsi | قایق مسطح الواری , دگل , دسته الوارشناوربراب , باقایق الواری رفتن یافرستادن . (various references) | |
Finnish | lautta (ferry). (various references) | |
French | radeau. (various references) | |
German | Floß (float). (various references) | |
Greek | σχεδία (float, pontoon). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אס"" (barge, pushcart), כמות '"ול" (deal, mort, pile), "ובר" (barge, lighter), רפסו"" (ferry), ס"". (various references) | |
Hungarian | tutaj (catamaran, float), úsztatott fa (driftwood, drogue, raft wood), hajóhíd (floating pier, gang board, gang-plank, gangway, pontoon bridge, pontoon-bridge). (various references) | |
Icelandic | fleki. (various references) | |
Indonesian | rakit, pengapung (buoy). (various references) | |
Italian | zattera (float, scow). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 筏 , ラフィア椰子 (lab, label, labeling, laboratory, love, love affair, love chair, love child, love game, love hotel, love hunt, love juice, love letter, love play, love romance, love seat, love song, love story, love-in, Rachmaninoff, raffia palm, RAPCON, rhapsody, romantic comedy, rough play, rough sketch, rupture disk, soap opera, the forest). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ラフト , いか . (various references) | |
Korean | 뗏목 (rafts). (various references) | |
Manx | snauean (float), sleayd ushtey, raftey. (various references) | |
Occitan | radèl. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aftray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | jangada (float). (various references) | |
Romanian | transporta pe plutã, ponton (bridge, pontoon, pontoon bridge), plutãri, plutã (Cork, float, quill), bac (ferry, ferry boat, float bridge, passage boat). (various references) | |
Russian | плот (float). (various references) | |
Scottish | r th (a raft). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | splavariti (float), splav (float), mnoštvo (array, crop, grist, heap, lashings, legion, lot, lot: the lot, lots of, mass, million: the million, multiplicity, multitude, myriad, oodles, pack, plenty, scads, shoal, slew). (various references) | |
Spanish | balsa (balsa, balsa wood, ferry, ferryboat, float, pond, rettery, swamp). (various references) | |
Swedish | flotte (float). (various references) | |
Thai | แพ, ล่องแพ, จำนวนมาก (bags, flood, loaded, much, ocean). (various references) | |
Turkish | yığın (accumulation, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregation, bank, batch, budget, bulk, bundle, cartload, chunk, clamp, clump, collection, congeries, conglomerate, conglomeration, crowd, drove, flock, force, heap, Hill, huddle, lump, mass, mound, pack, Peck, pile, slew, stack, swarm, tons, volume, wilderness), sala binmek, sal yapmak, sal ile taşımak, sal (float), büyük miktar (immensity, muckle, slue). (various references) | |
Turkmen | sal. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | складати пліт, гнати пліт, надувний рятувальний пліт, пором (ferry, ferryboat, floater), переправляти на плоту, пліт (floater, raddle, wattle). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mảng đám gỗ củi trôi trên sông, đám băng trôi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | attarates. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "raft": rafted, rafter, raftered, rafters, rafting, rafts, raftsman, raftsmen. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "raft": aircraft, allograft, antiaircraft, antidraft, autograft, campcraft, craft, downdraft, draft, engraft, graft, handcraft, handicraft, heterograft, homograft, hovercraft, indraft, ingraft, intergraft, isograft, kingcraft, kraft, misgraft, overdraft, redraft, regraft, rotorcraft, scoutcraft, seacraft, spacecraft, stagecraft, statecraft, tradecraft, updraft, warcraft, watercraft, witchcraft, woodcraft, xenograft. (additional references) | |
Words containing "raft": allografted, allografting, allografts, antiaircrafts, autografted, autografting, autografts, campcrafts, crafted, craftier, craftiest, craftily, craftiness, craftinesses, crafting, crafts, craftsman, craftsmanlike, craftsmanly, craftsmanship, craftsmanships, craftsmen, craftspeople, craftsperson, craftspersons, craftswoman, craftswomen, crafty, downdrafts, draftable, drafted, draftee, draftees, drafter, drafters, draftier, draftiest, draftily, draftiness, draftinesses, drafting, draftings, drafts, draftsman, draftsmanship, draftsmanships, draftsmen, draftsperson, draftspersons, drafty, engrafted. (additional references) | |
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"Raft" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bramfitt, kaft, Naft, orft, Raat, rafa, rafi, rafo, rafy, Rait, ralt, raot, rarf, rast, ratt, rautt, rawt, razt, reeft, reft, rfac, riaf, rifty, roft, ruft, rvfa, ryft, traft, vaft, wraft. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "raft" (pronounced ra"ft) |
| 4 | r a" f t | craft, draft, draught, graft, Kraft, redraft. |
| 3 | -a" f t | aft, daft, haft, laughed, shaft, staffed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: frat. | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-r-t" | |
-1 letter: aft, arf, art, far, fat, rat, tar. | |
-2 letters: ar, at, fa, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-r-t" | |
+1 letter: afrit, after, craft, draft, frats, graft, kraft, rafts. | |
+2 letters: adrift, afreet, afrits, afters, artful, crafts, crafty, dafter, drafts, drafty, factor, falter, faster, father, fatter, feater, forgat, format, fracti, frater, frusta, grafts, hafter, krafts, maftir, rafted, rafter, ratify, strafe, tariff, trefah, wafter. | |
+3 letters: affront, afreets, airlift, antifur, barefit, crafted, drafted, draftee, drafter, engraft, factors, factory, facture, fagoter, fainter, fairest, faitour, falters, fanwort, farther, fasters, fatbird, fathers, fattier, feaster, feather, feature, fermata, fermate, ferrate, flatcar, flatter, floater, flytrap, formant, formate, formats, fractal, fracted, fractur, fractus, frailty, fraktur, frantic, fraters, fraught, fretsaw, frigate, frontal, furcate, futharc, futhark, futural, grafted, grafter, gratify, haftara, hafters, indraft, infarct, infract, ingraft, maftirs, overfat, parfait, rafters, rafting, ratafee, ratafia, ratfink, ratfish, redraft, reflate, refloat, refract, refutal, regraft, restaff, staffer, strafed, strafer, strafes, tariffs, tartufe, tearful, terefah, traffic, trayful, turfman, updraft, wafters, wafture. | |
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