loft — English Dictionary

Noun

1. Air, the air; the sky, the heavens.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Obsolete
   • Uncountable

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

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

3. 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.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   an artist's loft

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

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   maximum loft

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

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   a choir loft

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

   Usage

   • US usage
   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   a Manhattan loft

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

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

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

8. A lofted drive.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

9. A floor or room placed above another.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Obsolete
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   Eutychus […] fell down from the third loft.

Verb

1. To propel high into the air.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

   More examples (1)

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

   Usage

   • Intransitive

   Examples

   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.

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

4. To furnish with a loft space.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

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

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

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

   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.

Adjective

1. Lofty; proud; haughty.

   Usage

   • Obsolete
   • Rare

   Related words

   aloftcocklofthayloftloftyrood-loft

   Examples

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

Noun

1. floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space

   Broader terms

   floorlevelstoreystory

2. floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage

   Synonyms

   atticgarret

   Broader terms

   floorlevelstoreystory

3. (golf) the backward slant on the head of some golf clubs that is designed to drive the ball high in the air

   Broader terms

   pitchrakeslant

4. a raised shelter in which pigeons are kept

   Synonyms

   pigeon loft

   Broader terms

   shelter

Verb

1. store in a loft

   Broader terms

   store

2. kick or strike high in the air

   Broader terms

   hit

   Examples

   loft a ball

3. lay out a full-scale working drawing of the lines of a vessel's hull

   Broader terms

   lay out

4. propel through the air

   Synonyms

   throw

   Broader terms

   propelimpel

   Examples

   throw a frisbee

   The rocket lofted the space shuttle into the air