raft
1. a flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers (Freq. 2)
• Hypernyms:
float
• Hyponyms:
balsa raft, Kon Tiki, life raft, Carling float
2. (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent
- a batch of letters
- a deal of trouble
- a lot of money
- he made a mint on the stock market
- see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
- it must have cost plenty
- a slew of journalists
- a wad of money
• Syn:
batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal,
hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle,
mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile,
plenty, pot, quite a little, sight, slew, spate,
stack, tidy sum, wad
• Derivationally related forms:
wad (for: wad), plenteous (for: plenty), pile (for: pile), heap (for: heap)
• Hypernyms:
large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
• Hyponyms:
flood, inundation, deluge, torrent, haymow
1. transport on a raft
- raft wood down a river
• Topics:
navigation, pilotage, piloting
• Hypernyms:
transport
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something PP
2. travel by raft in water
- Raft the Colorado River
• Derivationally related forms:
rafter
• Hypernyms:
travel, go, move, locomote
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s PP
- They raft the river
- They raft down the river
3. make into a raft
- raft these logs
• Hypernyms:
manufacture, fabricate, construct
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
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