raft

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n. 筏, 救生筏, 大量 vi. 乘筏 vt. 筏运, 制成筏

发音

UK /ɹɑːft/
US /ɹæft/

词形变化

rafts 复数 rafts 三单 rafting 现在分词 rafted 过去式 rafted 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform.

    橡皮艇

    木排

    筏

    木筏

    竹筏

    槎

    They floated down the river on an inflatable raft

  2. 2.

    Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion.

    引申义
  3. 3.

    A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water.

  4. 4.

    A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.

    美国
  5. 5.

    A slice of toast.

    美国 俚语
  6. 6.

    A square array of sensors forming part of a large telescope.

  7. 7.

    A mass of congealed solids that forms on a consommé because of the protein in the egg white.

    烹饪
  8. 1.

    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.

v.
  1. 1.

    To convey on a raft.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To make into a raft.

    及物
  3. 3.

    To travel by raft.

    不及物
  4. 4.

    To dock (toolbars, etc.) so that they share horizontal or vertical space.

    计算机 工程 数学
  5. 1.

    simple past and past participle of reave

    古体

词汇关系

名词

同义词 10

lot deal mess plenty sight mountain pot mass pile stack

上位词 8

foot base foundation float groundwork fundament substructure understructure

下位词 6

flood torrent deluge inundation life raft haymow
动词

上位词 8

go move travel transport construct manufacture fabricate locomote

相关短语

life raft 救生筏 raft dog raft dogs raft port raft ports raft duck raft ducks fire raft pumice raft skinheads on a raft Adam and Eve on a raft Christ on a raft Moses on a raft Jesus H. Christ on a popsicle stick

词源

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”).

来源：wiktionary