| 单词 | raft |
| 释义 | raft (once / 435 pages) 1nv 2n A raft is a vessel or structure that's made to float on water. You might have an inflatable raft you use for floating around your backyard pool. Rafts come in many forms, from soft and squishy to wooden and permanent, like the rafts built on lakes for swimmers to rest on and dive off. Other rafts are mobile — they're small, flat boats meant for transporting people or goods across a river, for example. If you raft, you travel by raft. Experts guess that raft comes from the Old Norse word raptr, "log." WORD FAMILYraft: rafted, rafter, rafting, rafts+/rafter: raftered, raftering, rafters USAGE EXAMPLESIt will also close two Russian compounds used for intelligence-gathering, in Maryland and New York, as part of a raft of retaliatory measures. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) They used their swimming-pool raft to float their kids to a friend’s house around the corner. Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) Like OMICS, it publishes a raft of journals, 17 in all, with legitimately dry-sounding titles like “International Journal of Sustainable Energy Development.” New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1n a flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers Hypo|Hyper Kon Tiki, balsa raft a light raft made of balsa Carling float, life rafta raft to use if a ship must be abandoned in an emergency float something that floats on the surface of water 2v transport on a raft raft wood down a river Hyper transport move something or somebody around; usually over long distances 3v make into a raft raft these logs Hyper construct, fabricate, manufacture put together out of artificial or natural components or parts 4v travel by raft in water 2Raft the Colorado River Hyper go, locomote, move, travel change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically n (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent Syn|Hypo|Hyper batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad deluge, flood, inundation, torrent an overwhelming number or amount haymowa mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude |
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