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LIFE-RAFT

Specialty Definition: LIFE-RAFT

DomainDefinition

Transportation

Small boat, of inflatable rubberised fabric, for use of crew and passengers after aircraft ditching. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Usage: LIFE-RAFT

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Life-Raft Earth (1969)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: LIFE-RAFT

"LIFE-RAFT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LIFE-RAFT" is used about 8 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%8124,375

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: LIFE-RAFT

Language Translations for "LIFE-RAFT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

redningsflåde (dinghy, inflatable dinghy), gummibåd (dinghy, inflatable dinghy). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

rubberboot (dinghy, inflatable craft, inflatable dinghy, inflatable life-craft, pneumatic craft). (various references)

   

French

  

canot pneumatique (inflatable life-craft), canot de sauvetage (lifeboat). (various references)

   

German

  

Schlauchboot (dinghy, rubber dinghy). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σωσίβια λέμβος (life boat). (various references)

   

Italian

  

zattera autogonfiabile (dinghy, inflatable dinghy). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ife-raftlay

   

Portuguese

  

barco salva-vidas pneumático (dinghy, inflatable dinghy). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

balsa salvavidas de autoadrizamiento (automatically self-righting life-raft, self-righting liferaft), balsa salvavidas autoadrizable (automatically self-righting life-raft, self-righting liferaft). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: LIFE-RAFT

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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