| 单词 | raft |
| 释义 | raft raft1 /raft, rahft/, n. 1. a more or less rigid floating platform made of buoyant material or materials: an inflatable rubber raft. 2. a collection of logs, planks, casks, etc., fastened together for floating on water. 3. See life raft. 4. 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.t. 5. to transport on a raft. 6. to form (logs or the like) into a raft. 7. to travel or cross by raft. 8. (of an ice floe) to transport (embedded organic or rock debris) from the shore out to sea. v.i. 9. to use a raft; go or travel on a raft. 10. (of an ice floe) to overlap another ice floe. [1250-1300; ME rafte, perh. < ON raptr RAFTER1] raft2 /raft, rahft/, n. Informal. a great quantity; a lot: a raft of trouble. [1825-35; var. of RAFF large number (ME: abundance)] |
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