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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
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raft. 1. With the
dugout, perhaps man's earliest form of marine transport. The seagoing bamboo sailing raft of Taiwan, used for raids on the Chinese coast as far back as the 8th century, is a likely progenitor of the Chinese
junk, and rafts for transporting goods can still be seen on some Chinese rivers. Similar craft were used in Indo-China. Balsawood sailing rafts, which were manoeuvred by
centreboards only, were also widely employed off the coasts of Peru and Ecuador, and the northern coast of Brazil, in the days of the Inca.
Thor Heyerdahl constructed both a balsawood raft, and Egyptian ones made of papyrus, for his epic voyages across the Pacific and the Atlantic.
2. A flat, floating framework of
spars, planks, or other timber formerly used to carry goods or cargo from the shore to a ship lying off for loading on board. Similarly a temporary platform made on board for
lifesaving as a substitute for a boat.
3. Lumber, cut inland,
lashed together, and floated down a river to the sea, is also known as a raft.
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Rafts are made for rivers. (Outdoor Skills) (Column)
Magazine article from: Sports Afield; 3/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...difficult to flip a raft in most water that...canoe in a flash, rafts are a good choice...water left in autumn. Rafts can be propelled by...frame is placed on the raft and a single rower...maintaining the raft's position. for...outfitters choose Avon rafts because of their ...
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RAFT Honors Leading Tech Companies on Earth Day.
Business Wire; 4/20/2009; 700+ words
; ...Jose-based Resource Area for Teaching (RAFT). At an awards ceremony held today in celebration of Earth Day, RAFT will recognize these organizations for...which come on the 15th anniversary of RAFT's founding, reflect resourcefulness...
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Rafts - the current picture
Magazine article from: Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...increasing with each new raft feature discovered. Nowadays rafts are suggested to act as...a view of the complex raft properties. Key words: Rafts - Detergent-resistant...a complete view on the raft concept. Rafts - isolation artifact or...
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RAFT INTERNATIONAL: Raft International expands to support rapid growth.
M2 Presswire; 1/5/1999; 700+ words
; M2 PRESSWIRE-5 January 1999-RAFT INTERNATIONAL: Raft International expands to support rapid growth (C)1994...RDATE:040199 * Management team strengthened as demand for Raft Component Inventory soars London - Raft International, pioneers...
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Raft-promotion of virion-associated cholesterol determines HIV-1 infectivity.
Newspaper article from: Health & Medicine Week; 12/6/2004; 700+ words
; ...NewsRx.net) -- Raft-promotion of virion...Australia, "Lipid rafts are enriched in cholesterol...associated Brij 98 rafts in retroviral replication...importance of the raft-promoting property...of Virology (The raft-promoting property...associated Brij 98 rafts, is a determinant...
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Life raft lessons: having one is not enough; in an emergency, you need to know how to deploy the life raft and board it properly. (Seamanship).(boat equipment)
Magazine article from: Motorboating; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...buddies and I dove into that raft so fast we didn't even get...acquired a healthy interest in life rafts. I've read the literature...lives have been lost after life rafts were launched. Often, these...for one of two reasons: The raft didn't open after being deployed...
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Raft trip earns vacationer nickname of 'The Screamer'
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 5/21/2005; 700+ words
; ...the camp-site, there were three large rubber rafts, raft leaders, a cook and his girlfriend. The guides instructed us to pile into one of the rafts, five people to a raft. Soon we were on our way, the leader paddling...
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Quantifying raft proteins in neonatal mouse brain by 'tube-gel' protein digestion label-free shotgun proteomics.(Research)(Report)
Magazine article from: Proteome Science; 9/24/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...for the isolation of the rafts is to prepare detergent...Recent interest in lipid rafts arises from observations...partition preferentially into raft domains, and may require...and abundance in lipid rafts prepared from different...quantitation of changes in the raft protein abundance ...
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Lipid Rafts in Plants
Magazine article from: Plant Physiology; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...have been named "lipid rafts." The lipid raft hypothesis implies that...Triton X-100). Lipid rafts have since been isolated...typically found in animal raft regions, including heterotrimeric...animal and yeast lipid rafts (where cholesterol is...
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Lipid rafts reconstituted in model membranes
Magazine article from: Biophysical Journal; 3/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...ABSTRACT One key tenet of the raft hypothesis is that the...interactions, suggesting that rafts ought to form in model...In fact, domains with raft-like properties were...In GUVs formed from the raft lipid mixture or from...detergent-resistant lipid rafts into which glycosphingolipids...
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Rafts and Rafting
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
RAFTS AND RAFTING RAFTS AND RAFTING. The raft, the simplest type of watercraft, was first constructed...early nineteenth century, almost entirely replaced the raft by the Civil War. Rafts, however, did not fall into complete obsolescence...
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raft
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
raft 1 / raft / • n. a flat buoyant structure...flock of swimming birds or mammals: great rafts of cormorants, often 5,000 strong...1. [ intr. ] travel on or as if on a raft: I have rafted along the Rio Grande...
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Raft, George
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
RAFT, George Nationality: American. Born: George...Fenady) (as Petey Cane) Publications By RAFT: articles— Interview with R...Films and Filming (London), July 1962. On RAFT: books— Yablonsky, Lewis, George...
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raft parable
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism
raft parable. Often-cited parable that occurs...stream by paddling across using a coracle or raft, and the Buddha asks whether it would be appropriate or not for the man to carry the raft with him once he had crossed. The parable...
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Raft
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms
Raft a large collection of people or things taken indiscriminately; a dense flock of swimming birds; a collection of logs; fallen trees. Examples : raft of auks (at sea); of swimming birds; of books; of crocodiles, 1774; of...
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