Skip to main content

raft

/raft, rahft/US // ræft, rɑft //UK // (rɑːft) //

筏子,筏运,筏子上,筏式

Related Words

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a more or less rigid floating platform made of buoyant material or materials: an inflatable rubber raft.
    • : a collection of logs, planks, casks, etc., fastened together for floating on water.
    • : life raft.
    • : a slab of reinforced concrete providing a footing on yielding soil, usually for a whole building, so that the weight of the soil that would be displaced by the settlement of the building exceeds the weight of the building itself; mat.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to transport on a raft.
    • : to form into a raft.
    • : to travel or cross by raft.
    • : to transport from the shore out to sea.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to use a raft; go or travel on a raft.
    • : to overlap another ice floe.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • He is leading a round of investment in Aave worth $25 million by purchasing a raft of the project’s own governance tokens.

  • So we sent in a raft of questions to the company to better understand the demand that it is seeing in the market for its service.

  • I lived in my truck for years and spent a decade of summers sleeping under the stars as a raft guide.

  • Authoritarians are using a raft of digital technologies to counter dissent, maintain political control, and stay in power.

  • It joins a raft of EV makers making the jump to public markets.

  • He spent 47 days on a raft and survived only to be captured by the Japanese.

  • A raft of thrillers, sci-fi movies, and sinister dramas followed.

  • Mooney quickly inflated his life raft, sent out an SOS signal and drifted for fourteen days before he was rescued.

  • Complaints about the raft of security measures are dismissed.

  • Goldman, wisely, does not raise a raft of questions that drown a writer in the answering.

  • He swims every day in the river; he fishes from his bamboo raft; he hunts in the forest with his father.

  • It was decided that the carpenter should rig out a raft in a hasty fashion, and that we were to be put aboard it.

  • I improvised bandages, set the leg directly, and in a little while we got to the shore on a hastily constructed raft.

  • All the planters and many others near the lake shore keep a boat at their landing, and a raft for crossing vehicles and horses.

  • The raft had to be floated to the storehouse and a platform built, on which everything was elevated.