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loft

noun
/lɒft/UK/lɔft/US/lɑft/

Etymology

From Middle English lofte (“air, sky, upper region, loft”), from Old English loft, (doublet of native Old English lyft) of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse lopt (“upper chamber, attic, region of sky, air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“air, sky”). Akin to Scots lift (“air; sky; firmament”), Dutch lucht (“air”), German Luft (“air”), Old English lyft (“air”). Doublet of lift and luft. Related to aloft. Cognate with Scots loft, laft (“loft”), Irish lochta (“loft”).

  1. derived from *luftuz✻
  2. derived from lopt
  3. inherited from loft
  4. inherited from lofte

Definitions

  1. Air, the air

    Air, the air; the sky, the heavens.

  2. An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other…

    An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.

  3. The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure.

    • maximum loft
  4. ›+ 14 more definitions

    1. A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.

      • a choir loft

    2. A residential flat (apartment) on an upper floor of an apartment building.

      • a Manhattan loft
      • Today, with a loft in Manhattan and a condo in Century City, they are the epitome of the bi-coastal couple.

    3. Ellipsis of pigeon loft.

      • Releasing some of the 12,000 racing pigeons that had arrived by special train (in foreground) at Dumfries Station for a race to their home lofts in Lanarkshire and West Lothian

    4. The pitch or slope of the face of a golf club (tending to drive the ball upward).

    5. A lofted drive.

    6. A floor or room placed above another.

      • Eutychus […] fell down from the third loft.

    7. To propel high into the air.

      • Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal.

    8. To fly or travel through the air, as though propelled

      • When she saw houses lofting past her window, she ran to the child, who slept on a feather bed and she gathered the coverlet around them both.

    9. To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's…

      To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.

    10. To furnish with a loft space.

      • Two sisters, one under fifteen years of age, have lofted the house, so as to have a room for themselves.

    11. To raise (a bed) on tall supports so that the space beneath can be used for something…

      To raise (a bed) on tall supports so that the space beneath can be used for something else.

      • Lofting a bed is much harder work than it seems, and pulling a nail out with the back of a hammer is much simpler than using your own nails.

    12. Lofty

      Lofty; proud; haughty.

      • A heart, where dread was never so imprest To hide the thought that might the truth advance; In neither fortune loft, nor yet represt

    13. loss of fluid test

    14. A surname.

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Derived

aloft, bungaloft, cornloft, deloft, flyloft, hay loft, loft bed, loft bombing, lofthead, loftish, loft ladder, loftless, loftlike, loftmate, loftsman, mold loft, organ loft, pigeon loft, rood-loft, ropeloft, sail loft, toploftical, lofted drive, lofting iron

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for loft. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA