English-Portuguese translations for raft

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jangadaPelo sul de Itália e pelo sul de Espanha chegam barcos e jangadas. Boats and rafts arrive along its borders in southern Italy and southern Spain. Para ser mais concreto, uma de cada cinco jangadas salva-vidas existentes naquele ferry ro-ro não conseguiu insuflar-se.In particular, one in five of the life rafts on that ro-ro ferry failed to inflate. Quando milhares de pessoas chegam às nossas costas em jangadas artesanais, essa é realmente uma das consequências da pobreza extrema. When thousands of people arrive on our shores on makeshift rafts, it is one of the consequences of extreme poverty.

A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform
Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion
A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water
A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river
A square array of sensors forming part of a large telescope
To convey on a raft
To travel by raft
A large number, a lot

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