[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a more or less rigid floating platform made of buoyant material or materials:an inflatable rubber raft.", "a collection of logs, planks, casks, etc., fastened together for floating on water.", "life raft life raft.", "Building Trades.a slab of reinforced concrete providing a footing on yielding soil, usually for a whole building, so that the weight of the soil that would be displaced by the settlement of the building exceeds the weight of the building itself; mat ."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to transport on a raft.", "to form (logs or the like) into a raft.", "to travel or cross by raft.", "(of an ice floe) to transport (embedded organic or rock debris) from the shore out to sea."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to use a raft; go or travel on a raft.", "(of an ice floe) to overlap another ice floe."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a great quantity; a lot:a whole raft of trouble."]}]