English Dictionary

raft

IPA（発音記号）

/ɹɑːft/

名詞

広義 アメリカ英語 俗語

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.

日本語の意味

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

We loaded the injured hikers onto a makeshift raft and pushed it into the river to bring them safely to shore.

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。

意味（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.

意味（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.

意味（3）

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

Pelicans, bills stuck forward, would gather in small rafts to move along in comical formation, before diving in unison […]

意味（4）

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

意味（5）

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

意味（6）

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

意味（7）

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

rafts （ plural ）