RAFT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does raft mean? 

• RAFT (noun)
  The noun RAFT has 3 senses:

1. a flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers

2. (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent

3. a foundation (usually on soft ground) consisting of an extended layer of reinforced concrete

  Familiarity information: RAFT used as a noun is uncommon.

• RAFT (verb)
  The verb RAFT has 3 senses:

1. transport on a raft

2. travel by raft in water

3. make into a raft

  Familiarity information: RAFT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAFT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("raft" is a kind of...):

float (something that floats on the surface of water)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "raft"):

balsa raft; Kon Tiki (a light raft made of balsa)

Carling float; life raft (a raft to use if a ship must be abandoned in an emergency)

Derivation:

raft (make into a raft)

raft (travel by raft in water)

raft (transport on a raft)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

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; raft; sight; slew; spate; stack; tidy sum; wad

Context example:

a wad of money

Hypernyms ("raft" is a kind of...):

large indefinite amount; large indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "raft"):

deluge; flood; inundation; torrent (an overwhelming number or amount)

haymow (a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A foundation (usually on soft ground) consisting of an extended layer of reinforced concrete

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

mat; raft; raft foundation

Hypernyms ("raft" is a kind of...):

base; foot; foundation; fundament; groundwork; substructure; understructure (lowest support of a structure)

• RAFT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they raft    ... he / she / it rafts   
Past simple: rafted   
Past participle: rafted   
-ing form: rafting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Transport on a raft

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

raft wood down a river

Hypernyms (to "raft" is one way to...):

transport (move something or somebody around; usually over long distances)

Verb group:

raft (travel by raft in water)

Domain category:

navigation; pilotage; piloting (the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

raft (a flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Travel by raft in water

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

Raft the Colorado River

Hypernyms (to "raft" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Verb group:

raft (transport on a raft)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence examples:

They raft the river
They raft down the river

Derivation:

raft (a flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers)

rafter (someone who travels by raft)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make into a raft

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

raft these logs

Hypernyms (to "raft" is one way to...):

construct; fabricate; manufacture (put together out of artificial or natural components or parts)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

raft (a flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers)

 Context examples 

They got along quite well at first, but when they reached the middle of the river the swift current swept the raft downstream, farther and farther away from the road of yellow brick.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Iodine I 124 phospholipid ether analogue CLR1404 is selectively taken up by tumor cells via membrane lipid rafts and accumulates in tumor cells.

(Iodine I 124 Phospholipid Ether Analogue CLR1404, NCI Thesaurus)

During TCR engagement with MHC-associated antigen on host cell surfaces and synapse formation, CD3 activity leads to Tyr-phosphorylated CD3 subunits, Tyr phosphorylation of LAT colocalized in lipid rafts, and MAPK activation.

(CD3 Complex, NCI Thesaurus)

Farewell. He sprang from the cabin-window as he said this, upon the ice raft which lay close to the vessel.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Pre-TCR co-localizes with p56LCK kinase in membrane rafts resulting in phosphorylation of CD3-epsilon and ZAP70. p56LCK, in the TCR complex, activates DNA binding of STAT5A and STAT5B.

(Oncogene LCK, NCI Thesaurus)

The cholesterol gathers into "rafts," which were thought to serve as platforms from which other signaling molecules might operate.

(Researchers Zero-In on Cholesterol's Role in Cells, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Upon CBL phosphorylation, CAP/CBL dissociates from the receptor to complex with caveolar flotillin and localize to plasma membrane lipid rafts.

(CBL Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

Summer arrived, and dogs and men packed on their backs, rafted across blue mountain lakes, and descended or ascended unknown rivers in slender boats whipsawed from the standing forest.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The day following I was desperate, and I rafted together the foremast, the fore and main booms, and the fore and main gaffs.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Encoded by human PAG Gene, ubiquitous 432-aa 47-kDa Phosphoprotein Associated with GEMs is a type III plasma transmembrane adaptor protein located predominantly in membrane rafts (GEMs), associated with FYN and CSK tyrosine kinase, and thought to be involved in T cell activation and immunoreceptor signal transduction.

(Phosphoprotein Associated with GEMs, NCI Thesaurus)