What's the difference between hatful and raft?

Hatful


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The result of this study demonstrates that both the "hat" and "inverted" type grafts are highly successful and satisfactory procedures.
  • (2) On the other hand the TUC says people should also be prepared to be out in the sun for several hours and bring sunscreen and if possible a hat.
  • (3) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
  • (4) Which certainly isn't a charge you can level at Sony – in recent years, it has conspicuously championed indies (winning a hatful of Baftas for Journey and The Unfinished Swan in the process).
  • (5) It’s not going to change whether I score a hat-trick or don’t score at all.
  • (6) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
  • (7) "On 22 May," reads the legend above their black fedora hats, "Jens and Sedsel will choose who's in charge in Europe .
  • (8) But that Monday night, I went to bed and decided to throw my hat in the ring."
  • (9) That is the question facing Major League Baseball pitchers who are faced with the horrendous looking but protective hat that made its debut this week.
  • (10) In the present study, the clinical value of handgrip-apexcardiographic test (HAT) for identifying patients with new ischemia by the assessment of LV diastolic abnormalities during HG was prospectively investigated.
  • (11) Now, you have to put on a producer's hat, a director's hat, a writer's hat.
  • (12) It was his second hat-trick in four games and he has now scored 10 times in seven.
  • (13) Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) in Zaïre is a medical problem of first importance, particularly in endemic areas where sleeping sickness threatens about 10 millions of human beings almost the third of the whole population.
  • (14) It is proposed that the acceleration of 3-HAT oxidation leads to the enhancement of the 3-HAT toxicity.
  • (15) Christian Benteke has been revitalised under Sherwood and he followed up his hat-trick in last Tuesday’s 3-3 draw with Queens Park Rangers by scoring the winner here.
  • (16) He had to watch her score a hat-trick and lift the trophy on television instead.
  • (17) Girls loved him, his flouncy lace sleeves, tight trousers, big hats, curly hair.
  • (18) Highlight: Mike Magee’s opening day hat-trick against the team he ended the season with.
  • (19) "What I realised is that the most important thing is China," he says, cradling a beer and still wearing his trademark cowboy-style wide-rimmed hat.
  • (20) There was more magic on ITV at 9.10pm with The Illusionists, but it was unable to pull an overnights rabbit out of the hat, with just under 2 million viewers, an 8.5% share.

Raft


Definition:

  • () imp. & p. p. of Reave.
  • (n.) A collection of logs, boards, pieces of timber, or the like, fastened together, either for their own collective conveyance on the water, or to serve as a support in conveying other things; a float.
  • (n.) A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. (such as is formed in some Western rivers of the United States), which obstructs navigation.
  • (n.) A large collection of people or things taken indiscriminately.
  • (v. t.) To transport on a raft, or in the form of a raft; to make into a raft; as, to raft timber.
  • () of Reave

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There's no doubt Twitter is, for those who are into that kind of thing, a first-class social networking medium (the proof: pretty much every other social networking site, including Facebook, has tried to buy it and, having failed, adopted a whole raft of blatantly Twitter-like features of their own).
  • (2) I was encouraged by a website called Rio Hiking , which lured me in with exciting descriptions of scaling Sugar Loaf and Corcovado, of rafting rivers, rappelling waterfalls and forging paths through rainforest, but they failed to answer my emails.
  • (3) It's a great spot for swimming, with clear, calm waters and a bathing raft.
  • (4) "A pril is the cruellest month": how true TS Eliot's words will ring for millions of low-income working age people reliant on benefits and tax credits as they face a raft of cuts this cold April.
  • (5) He became the Telegraph's youngest ever editor in 2006 and his appointment was followed by a raft of high-profile departures.
  • (6) It is understood that ITV is looking at rationalising its network production in the north of England as part of a raft of cost-cutting measures, with executives questioning whether it needs its Leeds studios as well as its Manchester Quay Street site.
  • (7) The EAW is one of 35 measures the government is seeking to opt back into after having opted out of a raft of more than 100 EU policies relating to justice and home affairs last year, when Cameron wrote to the EU council presidency to give formal notification of the government’s intention to exercise the block opt-out.
  • (8) quinquefasciatus rafts were found in a wooded area (32.4%) with a dense undergrowth than in a more open area (67.6%), but Cx.
  • (9) He didn't even mind the National Front turning up and sieg-heiling during gigs, which seems enormously sporting of him, given his raft of horrifying stories about experiencing racism in 60s and 70s Britain, and the scars he still bears as the result of a racially motivated 1980 knife attack.
  • (10) Imperial Tobacco has become a major player in the US market after snapping up a raft of brands in a £4.2bn ($7bn) deal.
  • (11) There has certainly been a raft of policy announcements: on a green investment bank , subsidies for domestic renewable energy , electric vehicles , high speed rail , even badgers .
  • (12) He adds: "We face important policy choices on a whole raft of issues – climate change, energy generation, cloning, stem cell technology, GM foods – that we cannot hope to address properly unless we have access to the scientific research in each of these areas."
  • (13) When CIN612 cells, which contain episomal copies of HPV type 31b (HPV31b), were allowed to stratify in raft cultures, they differentiated in a manner which was histologically similar to that seen in a cervical intraepithelial neoplasia I biopsy lesion.
  • (14) We will make these starter homes 20 per cent cheaper by exempting them from a raft of taxes and by using brownfield land.
  • (15) It was claimed that the prime minister would unveil the measures on Tuesday as he hosted a No 10 meeting with the Mothers' Union, which earlier this year produced a raft of proposals to shield children from sexualised imagery.
  • (16) It also places restrictions on the raft of state laws that favour same-sex relationships.
  • (17) Oakeshott resigned the party whip after funding opinion polls in Lib-Dem-held seats showing how the party was in danger of losing a raft of MPs, including Clegg’s own seat.
  • (18) The government planned to abolish the monitor position as a cost-saving measure but scrapped the plan in early August, when it announced a raft of national security legislation.
  • (19) The producers and actors were desperate to get it right, down to the medical equipment used.” The impact was considerable: the programme led to a raft of referrals, according to Harmer.
  • (20) "The raft of measures taken by the authorities has stabilised the economy and will sow the seeds for a recovery over time, including in the housing market.