raft

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ɹɑːft/

Noun

broadly US slang

A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform. / (by extension) Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion.

Japanese Meaning

いかだ：平らな底面を持ち、水に浮かんで流れる、輸送や水上プラットフォームとして利用される水上の乗り物・構造物 / 転じて、類似の用途で用いられる、平たく木製の物体

What is this buttons?

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

私たちは負傷したハイカーを即席のいかだに乗せて川に浮かべ、岸まで安全に運びました。

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Sense（1）

A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform.

An inflatable raft. A log raft.

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Sense（2）

(by extension) Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion.

Even though in a way you let him freeze to death in the water, because the way I see it...

I agree. Y'know, I think he actually could have fitted on that bit of door.

There was plenty of room on the raft.

I know. I know, I know.

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Sense（3）

A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water.

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Sense（4）

(US) A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.

Sense（5）

(US, slang, when ordering food) A slice of toast.

Sense（6）

A square array of sensors forming part of a large telescope.

Sense（7）

(cooking) A mass of congealed solids that forms on a consommé because of the protein in the egg white.

rafts

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