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n.
a flat buoyant structure of timber or other materials fastened together, used as a boat or floating platform.
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a small, inflatable rubber or plastic boat, esp. one for use in emergencies.
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a floating mass of fallen trees, vegetation, ice, or other material.
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a dense flock of swimming birds or mammals:
great rafts of cormorants, often 5,000 strong.
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a layer of reinforced concrete forming the foundation of a building.
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[intr.]
travel on or as if on a raft:
I have rafted along the Rio Grande.
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transport on or as a raft:
the stores were rafted ashore
I rafted 400 logs to my mill.
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(of an ice floe) be driven on top of or underneath another floe.
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[tr.]
transport (timber) on water in the form of a raft.
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[tr.]
bring or fasten together (a number of boats or other objects) side by side.
raft2
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a large amount of something:
a raft of government initiatives.
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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 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 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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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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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-promotion of virion-associated cholesterol determines HIV-1 infectivity.
Newspaper article from: Drug Week; 12/10/2004; 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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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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Sacramento, Calif., Raft-Rental Owners Thrive with 28 Years in Business.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 6/18/2002; 700+ words
; ...one occasion he saw two rafts with "Noah's Rafts Rentals" painted on the...idea for American River Raft was conceived. Hill was...1978 when American River Raft ran its first local television...people flocked to rent rafts. It was the first year...
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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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