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Definition: Life Raft |
Life RaftNoun1. A raft to use if a ship must be abandoned in an emergency. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Life RaftSynonym: Carling float (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: life-saving (food & agriculture). |
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 | Meets with King Ibn Saud, of Saudi Arabia, on board USS Quincy (CA-71) in the Great Bitter Lake, Egypt, on 14 February 1945. The King is speaking to the interpreter, Colonel William A. Eddy, USMC. Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, USN, the President's Aide and Chief of Staff, is at left. Note ornate carpet on the ship's deck, and life raft mounted on the side of the 5"/38 twin gun mount in the background.Credit: NAVY. |  | USS Yorktown (CV-5) being abandoned by her crew after she was hit by two Japanese Type 91 aerial torpedoes, 4 June 1942. USS Balch (DD-363) is standing by at right. Note oil slick surrounding the damaged carrier, and inflatable life raft being deployed off her stern.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Damage from a "Kamikaze" hit received off Okinawa on 9 May 1945. This view, taken at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, on 24 July 1945, shows the port side of the forward superstructure, near where the suicide plane struck. Note scoreboard painted on the bridge face, showing her Presidential Unit Citation pennant and symbols for the six Japanese submarines and three aircraft credited to England. Also note fully provisioned life raft at right.Credit: NAVY. | | USS Yorktown (CV-5) being abandoned by her crew after she was hit by two Japanese Type 91 aerial torpedoes, 4 June 1942. USS Balch (DD-363) is standing by at right. Note oil slick surrounding the damaged carrier, and inflatable life raft being deployed off her stern.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Aircraft life raft manufacturing. Woman worker in balloon room applies tape to inflatable seat which will become part of emergency life raft for military aircraft. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| 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 |
life raft | 38 |
winslow life raft | 5 |
life raft manufacturer | 4 |
avon life raft | 3 |
life raft viking | 2 |
life raft rental | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "life raft"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | rettungsfloß. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mentõtutaj (life dinghy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ifelay aftray спасательный плот. (various references) splav za spasavanje. (various references) cankurtaran salı. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-f-i-l-r-t" | |
-2 letters: falter, farfel, ferial, fetial, filter, lifter, raffle, retail, retial, riffle, tailer, tariff, trifle. | |
-3 letters: afire, afrit, after, alert, alter, ariel, artel, farle, feral, feria, fetal, fifer, filar, filer, filet, flair, flare, flier, flirt, flite, frail, irate, later, lifer, liter, litre, ratel, refit, relit, retia, rifle, taler, telia, terai, tiler, trail, trial. | |
-4 letters: airt. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-f-i-l-r-t" | |
+1 letter: afterlife. | |
+3 letters: faultfinder, forfeitable, trafficable. | |
+4 letters: differential, faultfinders. | |
+5 letters: affirmatively, differentials. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 69 66 65 52 61 66 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01101001 01100110 01100101 00100000 01010010 01100001 01100110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L i f e   R a f t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0069 0066 0065 0052 0061 0066 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46757271252677286 |
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