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Raft vs Rapt - What's the difference?

raft | rapt |

As nouns the difference between raft and rapt

is that raft is a flat structure made of planks, barrels etc, that floats on water, and is used for transport, emergencies or a platform for swimmers or raft can be a large (but unspecified) number, a lot while rapt is (obsolete) an ecstasy; a trance.

As verbs the difference between raft and rapt

is that raft is to convey on a raft or raft can be (reave) while rapt is (obsolete) to transport or ravish.

As an adjective rapt is

(uncomparable|archaic) snatched, taken away; abducted.

raft

English

(wikipedia raft)

Etymology 1

From Scandinavian; compare West (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A flat structure made of planks, barrels etc., that floats on water, and is used for transport, emergencies or a platform for swimmers.
  • A flat-bottomed inflatable craft for floating or drifting on water.
  • A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals.
  • (US) A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.
  • (slang, informal) A large collection of people or things taken indiscriminately.
  • * W. D. Howells
    • a whole raft of folks
    Derived terms
    * life raft

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to convey on a raft
  • to make into a raft
  • to travel by raft

    • Related terms

    * rafter * whitewater rafting

    Etymology 2

    Alteration of (raff).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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 [...].

    Etymology 3

    Verb

    (head)
  • (reave)
    • (Spenser)

    Anagrams

    * * * * ----

    rapt

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (uncomparable, archaic) Snatched, taken away; abducted.
  • * Chapman
    • And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt / The whirring chariot.
  • * Sir H. Wotton
    • From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Francis Bacon, to Redgrove.
  • (uncomparable) Lifted up into the air; transported into heaven.
  • (comparable) Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed; fascinated or engrossed.
    • The children watched in rapt attention as the magician produced object after object from his hat.
  • * 1851-2 , , The Necromancer'', in ''Reynolds?s Miscellany , republished 1857; 2008, page 247,
    • It was an enthusiasm of the most rapt and holy kind.
  • * 1906 , '', ''Works of Ford Madox Ford , 2011, unnumbered page,
    • Her expression grew more rapt ; she paused as if she had lost the thread of the words and then spoke again, gazing far out over the hall as jugglers do in performing feats of balancing:.
  • * 1908 ,
    • The Rat never answered, if indeed he heard. Rapt , transported, trembling, he was possessed in all his senses by this new divine thing that caught up his helpless soul and swung and dandled it, a powerless but happy infant in a strong sustaining grasp.
  • * 1998 , Derel Leebaert, Present at the Creation'', Derek Leebaert (editor), ''The Future of the Electronic Marketplace , page 24,
  • (comparable) Enthusiatic; ecstatic, elated, happy.
    • He was rapt with his exam results.
  • * Addison
    • I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.
  • * 1996 , James Richard Giles, Wanda H. Giles, American Novelists Since World War II: Fifth Series , page 139,
    • Creatures who navigate long-distance migrations — including the green turtles, wind birds, or great cranes — draw his most rapt commentaries.
  • * 2010 , Michael Reichert, Richard Hawley, Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys: Strategies that Work—and Why , John Wiley & Sons, US, page 121,
    • Even in the most rapt accounts of independent student work, there appears an appreciative acknowledgment of the teacher?s having determined just the right amount of room necessary to build autonomy without risking frustration and failure.
  • * 2010 , , I Came to Say Goodbye , page 201,
    • One bloke I met in the pub was the owner of the local meatworks. He was rapt' to have the Sudanese, and if 1600 more were coming – that was the rumour – well, he?d have been even more ' rapt .
  • * 2012 , Greig Caigou, Wild Horizons: More Great Hunting Adventures , HarperCollins (New Zealand), unnumbered page,
    • These are worthy aspects of the hunt to give some consideration to with the next generation, because market forces want us to get more rapt with ever more sophisticated gear and an algorithmic conquering of animal instinct.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * rapture

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To transport or ravish.
    • (Drayton)
  • (obsolete) To carry away by force.
    • (Daniel)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An ecstasy; a trance.
    • (Bishop Morton)
  • (obsolete) rapidity
    • (Sir Thomas Browne)

    Anagrams

    * part, prat, tarp, trap ----