Word Finder - raft

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

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An inflatable raft. A log raft.

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(by extension) Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion.

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

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

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(when ordering food) A slice of toast.

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

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To convey on a raft.

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To make into a raft.

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To travel by raft.

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

Take a seat in the raft and float down the river.

Molly asked from where she was standing in the doorway, holding a raft of papers.

Prince Andrew, leaning his arms on the raft railing, gazed silently at the flooding waters glittering in the setting sun.

When they were discovered, a mere raft of reeds in which they could scarcely venture a mile from shore was their only means of navigation.

I suppose you had a raft of this abuse stuff back in Pennsylvania.

On reaching Dort the rafts are broken up and sold, a single raft sometimes producing as much as £30,000.

Small sailing craft navigate upwards as far as Samarra; above this all navigation is downward, and by raft.

These lakes are much larger at flood season than at other times, and have been much reduced in size by the cutting of a channel through the raft.

Single tree trunks sent down to the Rhine by the various tributaries are united into small rafts as they reach the main stream; and these again are fastened together to form one large raft about Andernach.

It owes most of its interest to the peace signed here in July 1807, the preliminaries of which were settled by the emperors Alexander and Napoleon on a raft moored in the Memel.

At the wreck of the " Medusa " frigate in 1876, fifteen people survived on a raft for thirteen days without food.

And the raft of measures was completely counter to reducing alienation and extremism.

My knuckles were white and my ass cheeks clenched tight, Kim laughed and the Nepali raft guides slept their hang overs off.

Watch the video clips of the bubble raft undergoing compressive, tensile and shear deformation.

I fidgeted up and down the raft, abusing myself to myself, and Jim was fidgeting up and down past me.

The HIV-1 surface envelope glycoprotein gp120 binds to CD4, leaving its V3 domain available for secondary interactions with raft GSLs.

Dowlas seized the hatchet, ready to dispatch the brute the moment it should be landed on the raft.

I inflated the life raft and hauled myself on board, and deployed the SARBE beacon for the helicopter to find me.

While they are being pounded by a fierce storm, clutching the life raft, he is shooting at them like sitting ducks.

Future studies will also help to clarify the molecular mechanisms involved in the chaperone activity of raft lipids.

What's needed is a raft of co-ordinated measures to tackle this modern menace.

The raft took us through a very mountainous region, which also had a number of canyons.

Latest PPP Schools Round Despite this report, the Scottish Executive unveiled a new raft of PPP projects on 25 June 2002.

Enjoy fishing at Mae tang River by local instruments and learn the technique of constructing a bamboo raft.

The all round spec ' is great with a whole raft of features to make load carrying easy for the fast moving outdoor person.

More about the fen raft spider All the water in the fen gradually flows into the river Waveney.

The last part of this trip takes place on long tail boat or bamboo raft.

In a 2D model such as the bubble raft, only edge dislocations can exist.

Odysseus made his raft as wide as a skilled shipwright makes the hull of a broad-beamed trading vessel.

So he locked me in and took the skiff, and started off towing the raft about half- past three.

Bubble raft sequence 3 A vacancy, dislocation, substitutional solute and interstitial solute identified.

In 1981 the fen raft spider became one of the 23 species of arthropod protected in Britain by the Wildlife and Countryside Act.

Tom's life is a slave to random synchronicity, an unsteady raft adrift on an ocean of capricious coincidence.

One of the first view from the hide was the arrival of two Common terns settling on the newly repaired tern raft.

We will also use the well-characterised outer leaflet raft marker cholera toxin B subunit in similar studies.

However, despite a raft of punitive measures designed to bring persistent truants to book, the problem refuses to go away.

Choose from sailing, kayaking, canoeing, windsurfing, raft building and problem solving.

While the carriage and horses were being placed on it, they also stepped on the raft.

Prince Andrew stood leaning on the railing of the raft listening to Pierre, and he gazed with his eyes fixed on the red reflection of the sun gleaming on the blue waters.

The raft had long since stopped and only the waves of the current beat softly against it below.

There are also a raft of anti avoidance measures in the finer detail.

Sora slouched over, walked to the raft, and grabbed some rope and a log.

Juan the Andean spectacled bear first paddled across a moat using a log for a raft, then scaled a wall.

Tom 's life is a slave to random synchronicity, an unsteady raft adrift on an ocean of capricious coincidence.

One of the first view from the hide was the arrival of two Common Terns settling on the newly repaired tern raft.

Travel and Outdoors is the place to go to learn how to build a raft and make a kite.

Nudist writing intersected with a raft of other modern discourses-heliotherapy (sun-cure), sexology, socialism, feminism, and eugenics.

The company offers a variety of plans for building these systems including a bubbler system and a raft system.

Wild Water Wilderness - This area may be small, but it includes one wild river raft ride - Big Foot Rapids.

Built in 2007, you'll get into a large raft and slide down 650 feet.