(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.
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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.
Transport
Definition:
(v. t.) To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.
(v. t.) To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.
(v. t.) To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.
(v.) Transportation; carriage; conveyance.
(v.) A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one place to another, or to convey convicts to their destination; -- called also transport ship, transport vessel.
(v.) Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.
(v.) A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
(2) Ca2+ transport was positively correlated with MR cell density.
(3) In addition, DDT blocked succinate dehydrogenase and the cytochrome b-c span of the electron transport chain, which also secondarily reduced ATP synthesis.
(4) The transport of potassium ions through membranes of red blood cells was examined in in bitro experiments using a CMF of 4500 oersted.
(5) The transported pIgA was functional, as evidenced by its ability to bind to virus in an ELISA assay and to protect nonimmune mice against intranasal infection with H1N1 but not H3N2 influenza virus.
(6) In January, Paris taxi drivers attacked an Uber car transporting two passengers from Charles de Gaulle airport.
(7) These results suggest the involvement of SRC in opsin transport.
(8) Plasma membranes were isolated from rat kidney and their transport properties for sodium, calcium, protons, phosphate, glucose, lactate, and phenylalanine were investigated.
(9) Erythrocyte membrane choline transport is abnormally high in chronic renal failure.
(10) These results indicate that both the renal brush-border and basolateral membranes possess the Na(+)-dependent dicarboxylate transport system with very similar properties but with different substrate affinity and transport capacity.
(11) Chronic CHP administration elicited significant increase in both KD and Bmax of striatal mazindol-binding sites (labelling DA transporter complex), but no change in either D1- or D2-type DA receptors.
(12) By the time Van Kirk returned to the US in June 1943, he had flown 58 combat and eight transport missions.
(13) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
(14) These studies also suggest at least two mechanisms for uric acid reabsorption; one sodium dependent, the other independent of sodium and water transport.
(15) Basal and maximally insulin-stimulated rates of 3-O-methylglucose transport in adipocytes from obese and obese NIDDM subjects were reduced to 50% of the values in cells from normal subjects (P less than 0.05).
(16) Thus, although ferric-enterochelin cannot penetrate the cell surface from outside, the complex that is formed within the envelope is transported normally into the cell.
(17) When antibodies were bound to cell-surface DPP IV at 4 degrees C, the immune complex remained stable for more than 1 h after rewarming to 37 degrees C, despite ongoing metabolic and membrane transport processes.
(18) Uptake studies with 22Na were performed in cultured bovine pigmented ciliary epithelial cells, in order to characterize mechanisms of Na+ transport.
(19) Benzylpenicillin showed small inhibition against succinate transport and ticarcillin against sulfate transport.
(20) Inhibition of fast axonal transport by an antibody specific for kinesin provides direct evidence that kinesin is involved in the translocation of membrane-bounded organelles in axons.