different between raft vs catamaran
raft
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???ft/
- (US) IPA(key): /?æft/
- Rhymes: -??ft
Etymology 1
Late Middle English, of North Germanic origin, from West Old Norse raptr, from Proto-Germanic *raf-tra-, from Proto-Indo-European *rap-tro-, from *rep- (“stake, beam”). See also Norwegian raft (“beam, rafter”), Danish raft (“thin pole”). Compare also Albanian trap (“raft, ferry”).
Noun
raft (plural rafts)
- 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.
- 2016 February 2, Kate Winslet & al., Jimmy Kimmel Live!
- 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.
- Even though in a way you let him freeze to death in the water, because the way I see it...
- 2016 February 2, Kate Winslet & al., Jimmy Kimmel Live!
- A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water.
- 2010, John Roome, A Persistent Passage (page 140)
- Pelicans, bills stuck forward, would gather in small rafts to move along in comical formation, before diving in unison […]
- 2010, John Roome, A Persistent Passage (page 140)
- (US) A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.
- (US, slang, when ordering food) A slice of toast.
- A square array of sensors forming part of a large telescope.
Derived terms
- life raft
Translations
Verb
raft (third-person singular simple present rafts, present participle rafting, simple past and past participle rafted)
- (transitive) To convey on a raft.
- (transitive) To make into a raft.
- (intransitive) To travel by raft.
- (graphical user interface) To dock (toolbars, etc.) so that they share horizontal or vertical space.
- 2007, Dinesh Maidasani, Straight to the Point - Visual Basic 2005 (page 11)
- The
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- 2007, Dinesh Maidasani, Straight to the Point - Visual Basic 2005 (page 11)
Translations
Related terms
- rafter
- whitewater rafting
References
Etymology 2
Alteration of raff.
Noun
raft (plural rafts)
- A large (but unspecified) number, a lot.
- 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge 2008, p. 31:
- Among those arrested was the grand master himself, Jacques de Molay, who found himself facing a raft of charges based on the specious evidence of former knights [...].
- 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge 2008, p. 31:
Translations
Etymology 3
Verb
raft
- simple past tense and past participle of reave
Anagrams
- FRTA, RTFA, TRAF, fart, frat, traf
Albanian
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish ???? (raf), from Arabic ????? (raff), contaminated with rrafsh.
Noun
raft m
- shelf
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from English raft.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /raft/
Noun
raft m
- raft (inflatable floating craft)
Declension
Romanian
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish ???? (raf), from Arabic ????? (raff)
Noun
raft n (plural rafturi)
- shelf
Declension
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catamaran
English
Etymology
From Tamil ????? (ka??u, “to tie”) + ???? (maram, “tree, wood”).
Pronunciation
- (Canada, US) IPA(key): /?kæ.t?.m???æn/, /?kæ.t?.m???æn/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?kæ.t?.m???æn/, /?kæ.t?.m???æn/
Noun
catamaran (plural catamarans)
- A twin-hulled ship or boat.
- (colloquial, rare, obsolete) A quarrelsome woman; a scold.
- (obsolete) A raft of three pieces of wood lashed together, the middle piece being longer than the others, and serving as a keel on which the rower squats while paddling.
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 90:
- Three or four strange-looking things now came close to our boat, which I understood were called ‘catamarans’, consisting of nothing more than two or three large trees, the trunk part only strongly lashed together, upon which sat two men nearly in a state of nature […] .
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 90:
- (obsolete) An old kind of fireship.
Synonyms
- (twin-hulled ship or boat): twinhull
Hypernyms
- (twin-hulled ship or boat): multihull
Hyponyms
- (twin-hulled ship or boat): AC45, AC72
Coordinate terms
- monohull
- outrigger canoe
Derived terms
- cat (diminutive)
Related terms
- trimaran
Translations
French
Etymology
From Tamil ????? (ka??u, “to tie”) + ???? (maram, “tree, wood”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.ta.ma.???/
- Homophone: catamarans
Noun
catamaran m (plural catamarans)
- catamaran, a twin-hulled ship or boat
Further reading
- “catamaran” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from English catamaran, from Tamil.
Noun
catamaran m (plural catamarans)
- (Jersey) catamaran
Romanian
Etymology
From French catamaran
Noun
catamaran n (plural catamarane)
- catamaran
Declension
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