Raft in a sentence as a noun

We'll have a raft of new web servers online shortly to handle this trafic. Please check back in a few hours!

If your life raft is sinking, do you try to patch it, or do you throw someone overboard? Your instinctual answer says a lot about the type of person you are.

The 1910 rule changes were a reaction to a raft of horrifying deaths on the field. A total of 26 players died in 1909, including 10 at the college level.

Part of the reason PHP is such a disgusting mess is because it is a raft of haphazardly accumulated features.

If they could communicate a set of application ideas then I suspect that a whole new raft of supporters will be happy to risk at least $99.

So I'm frantically trying in my spare time to build a raft so I can find my own island. I feel like I'm racing against time. I have to finish the raft before I have a mental break and land my family on welfare and me on a psychologist's couch.

Pretty soon we'll have a raft of reality TV shows dogging our every move, and providing income to those of us who have fallen from the grace of the techno A-list.

Raft in a sentence as a verb

I'm sure he has a whole raft of very insightful posts, balanced by more mundane ones like the example in the article. In my experience, some friends post consistently interesting and thought provoking links and paragraphs.

They'd have to negotiate and sign compliance agreements with a raft of DRM providers just to be fully standards-compliant and interoperable. I may be totally naive here, but I'm not really sure why this matters.

The deification of science is a life raft post adolescents cling to as they try to swim away from the inherent corruption of mankind. Scientists are no less afflicted with selfishness, vanity or pettiness than people in any other industry.

Instead, the rationale from Apple and defended by you and others is that it is better to make the entire app 17+, and deny a whole raft of people the ability to use it, on the chance that they might do the above to "get around" the Apple rating system. It's always insightful to see the hoops that are jumped through to defend Apple.

SLRs to me up the psychological stakes taking what you're doing from photography to capital P Photography with a whole raft of associations there between you and your subjects. Lastly, from a technical perspective, sensors and lenses on cheaper cameras are pretty good these days, and generally when you shooting you don't want full manual.

Does "ultimatum" and "raft of complicated last-minute changes" not raise anyone else's tinfoil paranoia alarms? Those commits should get significant scrutiny, because it sounds like US/CA govt were given an indirect opportunity to push whatever changes it wanted AND rushed code isn't necessarily the best either.

Prior to Java, C++ didn't even have a memory model; every new release of GCC breaks a whole raft of C programs that didn't realise they were invoking undefined behaviour by having integer overflow. By the C standard, even a single instance of undefined behaviour invalidates your whole program, making it virtually impossible to predict the behaviour of any nontrivial-sized codebase.

Raft definitions

noun

a flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers

noun

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"

See also: batch

verb

transport on a raft; "raft wood down a river"

verb

travel by raft in water; "Raft the Colorado River"

verb

make into a raft; "raft these logs"