raft

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɹɑːft/    美 /ɹæft/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. A large (but unspecified) number, a lot.
    — 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Pomeroy asked me a raft of factual-type questions (how old were you when you began menstruating? did you ever see your parents having intercourse? did you have many friends in high school? how was your relationship with your father?). It seemed he had a written questionnaire & checked off answers as I have them.
  3. Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion. broadly
    — When George Stephenson built the Liverpool & Manchester Railway he encountered the same difficulty at Chat Moss and solved the problem by constructing a kind of raft made of brushwood that more or less floated on the surface of the bog. On this he placed as much firm soil as his raft could carry, when the operation was repeated, the first raft being thereby sunk with its load of solid earth, which was not displaced.
  4. A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water.
    — Pelicans, bills stuck forward, would gather in small rafts to move along in comical formation, before diving in unison […]
  5. A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river. US
  6. A slice of toast. US,slang
  7. A square array of sensors forming part of a large telescope.
  8. A mass of congealed solids that forms on a consommé because of the protein in the egg white.
动词 v.
  1. To convey on a raft. transitive
    — 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. simple past and past participle of reave archaic,form-of,participle,past
    — Colin Clout raft me of his brother
  3. To make into a raft. transitive
  4. To travel by raft. intransitive
  5. 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.

词形变化

rafts plural rafts present,singular,third-person rafting participle,present rafted participle,past rafted past rafts plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Adam and Eve on a raft cataraft Christ on a raft fire raft life raft Moses on a raft packraft pumice raft raftable raftage raft dog raft duck raftless raftlike raftload raftman raftmate raftophilic raft port raft-rope raftsman raftswoman raft-up skinheads on a raft
相关词
rafter whitewater rafting

词源

词源 1
Late Middle English, of North Germanic origin, from West Old Norse raptr, from Proto-Germanic *raf-tra-, from Proto-Indo-European *rap-tro-, from *rep- (“stake, beam”). See also Norwegian raft (“beam, rafter”), Danish raft (“thin pole”). Compare also Albanian trap (“raft, ferry”).
词源 2
Alteration of raff.
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