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Loft
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- 1 Lofty; proud; haughty. obsolete, rare
"A heart, where dread was never so imprest To hide the thought that might the truth advance; In neither fortune loft, nor yet represt"
- 1 A surname.
- 1 Air, the air; the sky, the heavens. countable, obsolete, uncountable
- 2 loss of fluid test
- 3 floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage wordnet
- 4 An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building. countable, uncountable
- 5 a raised shelter in which pigeons are kept wordnet
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- 6 An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.; Such an attic used as an atelier. countable, uncountable
"an artist's loft"
- 7 floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space wordnet
- 8 The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure. countable, uncountable
"maximum loft"
- 9 (golf) the backward slant on the head of some golf clubs that is designed to drive the ball high in the air wordnet
- 10 A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc. countable, uncountable
"a choir loft"
- 11 A residential flat (apartment) on an upper floor of an apartment building. US, countable, uncountable
"a Manhattan loft"
- 12 Ellipsis of pigeon loft. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
"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"
- 13 The pitch or slope of the face of a golf club (tending to drive the ball upward). countable, uncountable
- 14 A lofted drive. countable, uncountable
- 15 A floor or room placed above another. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"Eutychus […] fell down from the third loft."
- 1 To propel high into the air. transitive
"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."
- 2 lay out a full-scale working drawing of the lines of a vessel's hull wordnet
- 3 To fly or travel through the air, as though propelled intransitive
"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."
- 4 propel through the air wordnet
- 5 To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.
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- 6 kick or strike high in the air wordnet
- 7 To furnish with a loft space. transitive
"Two sisters, one under fifteen years of age, have lofted the house, so as to have a room for themselves."
- 8 store in a loft wordnet
- 9 To raise (a bed) on tall supports so that the space beneath can be used for something else. transitive
"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."
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”).
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”).
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”).
Two main origins: * From Middle English lofte (“loft, attic”), possibly a surname given to a household servant who worked in an upper chamber; see the noun loft. * Borrowed from Danish Loft, a habitational surname.
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