Definition of "loft"

loft

/lɒft/

noun
plural lofts
1. (obsolete, except in derivatives) 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 building.
  1. Such an attic used as an atelier.
3. (textiles) The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure.
4. A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.
5. A residential flat (apartment) on an upper floor of an apartment building.
  Quotations
  Today, with a loft in Manhattan and a condo in Century City, they are the epitome of the bi-coastal couple.
  1989 July 1, Jan Herman, “Sitcom face of Harry Groener also familiar on stage”, in Los Angeles Times‎, Entertainment and Arts
6. (golf) The pitch or slope of the face of a golf club (tending to drive the ball upward).
7. (obsolete) A floor or room placed above another.
  Quotations
  Eutychus […] fell down from the third loft.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Acts 10:9
verb
third-person singular simple present lofts, present participle lofting, simple past and past participle lofted
1. (transitive) To propel high into the air.
  Quotations
  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.
  2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport‎
2. (intransitive) To fly or travel through the air, as though propelled
  Quotations
  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.
  2004, Wallace Akin, The Forgotten Storm
3. (bowling) To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.
4. (transitive) To furnish with a loft space.
  Quotations
  Two sisters, one under fifteen years of age, have lofted the house, so as to have a room for themselves.
  1853, Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
5. (transitive) To raise (a bed) on tall supports so that the space beneath can be used for something else.
  Quotations
  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.
  2010, Casey Lewis, Knack Dorm Living, page 15
adjective
comparative more loft, superlative most loft
1. (obsolete, rare) lofty; proud; haughty
  Quotations
  A heart, where dread was never so imprest To hide the thought that might the truth advance; In neither fortune loft, nor yet represt
  1542, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Epitath on Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder

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