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How to pronounce raft in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms 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
Type of large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
Has types inundation, haymow, flood, torrent, deluge
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Synonyms mat, raft foundation
Type of fundament, groundwork, base, understructure, substructure, foot, foundation
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Type of float
Has types life raft, balsa raft, carling float, kon tiki
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Type of construct, fabricate, manufacture


raft these logs.
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Type of transport


raft wood down a river.
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Type of travel, go, move, locomote
Derivation rafter

Examples of raft

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When it was over, we were treated and tweeted to a raft of analysis and opinion.
From the washingtonpost.com
Meanwhile, Verizon reported that earnings fell 34%, after a raft of tax charges.
From the forbes.com
Raft the canyons and see the waterfalls and lush vegetation of the Cetina River.
From the dailymercury.com.au
Lertrasamee said he had one customer who used the motor to propel a bamboo raft.
From the nzherald.co.nz
They hopped on the raft with a guide, who took them over lots of rushing rapids.
From the sacbee.com
Coming to terms with these realities will require answering a raft of questions.
From the theatlantic.com
Nearby were expended flares, part of an ejection seat and pieces of a life raft.
From the chron.com
It is part of a raft of reforms Sarkozy has pushed for since becoming president.
From the cnn.com
Impact depends on involvement, on a raft of talented volunteers lending support.
From the courier-journal.com
More examples
  • A flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers
  • Transport on a raft; "raft wood down a river"
  • Batch: (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"
  • Travel by raft in water; "Raft the Colorado River"
  • Make into a raft; "raft these logs"
  • (rafts) tons: a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers"
  • A raft is any flat structure for support or transportation over water. It is the most basic of boat design, characterized by the absence of a hull. ...
  • RAFT or Reversible Addition-Fragmentation chain Transfer polymerization is one kind of controlled radical polymerizations. RAFT was discovered by the in 1998. ...
  • Raft is a French pop band active in the 1980s, most notable for their 1987 hit single, "Yaka dansu00E9 (l'arborigu00E8ne)".