raft

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform.
2. (broadly) Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion.
3. A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water.
4. (US) A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.
5. (US, slang) A slice of toast.
6. A square array of sensors forming part of a large telescope.
7. A mass of congealed solids that forms on a consommé because of the protein in the egg white.

Verb

1. (transitive) To convey on a raft.
2. (transitive) To make into a raft.
3. (intransitive) To travel by raft.
4. To dock (toolbars, etc.) so that they share horizontal or vertical space.

Verb

simple past and past participle of reave

reave

1. (archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
2. (archaic) To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.

Llegeix-ne més

Conceptes

rai

tramada

munt

muntanya

⛰️

pila

pilot

🧑‍✈️

quantitat

tou

feix

balsa

flotador

apilament

apilotament

estiba

manyoc

castell

🏰

armadia

cúmul

Sinònims

float

boat

⛵

mess

sight

vessel

pontoon

pile

lot

stack

plenty

hatful

deal

batch

mountain

⛰️

heap

heaps

great deal

lots

mass

good deal

pot

flock

catamaran

peck

ship

🚢

quite a little

wad

slew

spate

passel

muckle

nest

mickle

ferry

⛴️

mint

tidy sum

circle

⭕

chowder

bevy

cartload

bed

🛏️

ascension

canoe

🛶

busyness

battery

🔋

exaltation

business

erst

dugout

bury

Traduccions

radeau

balsa

Floß

zattera

vlot

σχεδία

balsa

jangada

armadía

houtvlot

masse

μαούνα

Holzfloß

almadía

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ɹɑːft/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: -

Cognat amb noruec: raft

Cognat amb danès: raft

Cognat amb albanès: trap

In summary

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”).