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Meaning raft meaning

What does raft mean?
Definitions in simple English

raft Noun

— A raft is a rough flat boat, often made from large logs of wood joined together.

raft

— noun a flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers — verb travel by raft in water Raft the Colorado River — verb transport on a raft raft wood down a river — verb make into a raft raft these logs — noun (= batch, deal, lot, mint, passel, plenty, slew, wad) (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 see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos it must have cost plenty a slew of journalists a wad of money

Synonyms raft synonyms

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raft English » English

float boat mess vessel stack sight pot pontoon plenty pile mountain mass lots lot heaps heap hatful great deal good deal flock deal batch wad tidy sum spate slew ship quite a little peck passel nest muckle mint mickle ferry catamaran wooden raft widely wide weld wedge way tyre troop trip tribe train tittering timber float tiding

Topics raft topics

What do people use raft to talk about?
Physical actions Move Travel Travel by water

Boat
States Quantity Plural

Many, much

Conjugation raft conjugation

How do you conjugate raft?

raft · verb

Examples raft examples

How do I use raft in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The boy went down the river on a raft.
Tom went down the river on a rubber raft.
Tom pushed the raft into the water.
The raft has drifted far off from the shore.
The boys built a raft.
Tom floated downstream on a raft.

Movie subtitles

Neither is there any dinghy or life raft.
Calypso, by will of the gods, advises Ulysses to build a raft to return home.
Theonis and Ramphis flee on the raft.
Ramphis, in raft filled with boxes and baskets, returns. His father is working on ia model of the treasure house.
What about these logs for a raft?
A raft to float him to the ship.
Say, it even looks like a raft.
That isn' t a raft, it's a coffin.
Why, I even built a raft.
We'll take the raft and when the whale opens his mouth.
Looks like a raft.
Stand by that raft.
Number one raft!
Make for the raft!
Well, we want a boat or a raft or something.
We'd better get a move on and find some way out of this, make a raft or something.
Get in the middle of the raft, Jane, and stay there.
He's going under your raft!
You, me, here alone on a raft?
If I give you a raft of it now over the phone, can you print it up and spread a billion copies of it?
Why, I, I even built a raft. - A raft?
We gonna make a raft of money trapping that swamp, Tom and me.
With living things on every raft, just like there is on this one they call the Earth.
We'd get Huck Finn to go with! We can use Huck's raft!
We won't find nothin' till we get down the river to where the raft was found.
How do you know that was the right raft?
Oh, I hadn't given up hope till they found the raft with Joe's little shoes on it.
It seems to me that Mrs. Harper said she still has hopes until they found the raft with Joe's.
A raft?
I've gotta build a raft, we need some gas, so roust your old man out.
Survivors on raft.

News and current affairs

Clinton has created a raft of new positions at the State Department to spur outreach to different social segments.
In their own defense, eurozone ministers point to the raft of reforms that they have introduced over the past 30 months, which will promote economic modernization, the restoration of sound government finances, and closer economic coordination.
Some countries, like the United States and Australia, chose to opt out of its stringent demands; others, like Canada, Japan, and a raft of European states, pay lip service to its requirements but will essentially miss its targets.
After discouraging all US allies from joining the AIIB, President Barack Obama's administration watched as Great Britain led a raft of Western European countries, followed by Australia and South Korea, into doing just that.
Today, despite a raft of foreign-exchange controls, a bolívar is worth barely 300 pesos at the official exchange rate (which is soon to be readjusted); one would be lucky to get 30 pesos at the black-market rate.
Preemption by Gazprom has been accomplished through a raft of acquisitions.
Apart from the resulting global inefficiency, this also creates a whole new raft of industry players that will keep pushing inefficient legislation, simply because it fills their coffers.
And the menace of war is followed by a raft of social, environmental, geopolitical, technological, and economic risks and trends.
In recent days, the authorities have also requested businesses to stagger the working day before, during, and after the Games to reduce traffic volumes, alongside a raft of other traffic-cutting measures.
MADRID - The recent downgrade of Brazil's credit rating to junk status was followed by a raft of articles heralding the crumbling of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa).
In the weeks leading up to the elections, it seemed that the public had grown weary of a prime minister who had been in office long enough to be corrupted by the arrogance of power and tainted by a raft of petty scandals.
Worse, a raft of proposed security legislation would almost certainly restrict freedom of assembly.
The Rohingya have already been stripped of their Myanmar citizenship, and a raft of new and proposed legislation that would further marginalize Islam seems certain to provoke further violence.
At long last, China's senior leadership has endorsed a raft of reforms that could impel the economy's shift from reliance on exports to consumption-led growth.
A bundle of logs lashed together in a raft - even if it lacks a rudder - has a clear advantage over a single storm-tossed trunk.
The eurozone's leaders are on a raft heading towards a life-threatening waterfall.
The longer they wait, the more the raft gains speed.
And Israel's continuing settlement construction on the West Bank has sharpened their sense that negotiations would not be productive, whereas the raft of UN resolutions supporting a two-state solution could now be put to the test.

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