loft
IPA: ɫˈɔft
noun
- (obsolete, except in derivatives) air, the air; the sky, the heavens.
- 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.
- (textiles) The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure.
- A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.
- A residential flat (apartment) on an upper floor of an apartment building.
- (golf) The pitch or slope of the face of a golf club (tending to drive the ball upward).
- (obsolete) A floor or room placed above another.
- (nuclear industry) loss of fluid test
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To propel high into the air.
- (intransitive) To fly or travel through the air, as though propelled
- (bowling) To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.
- (transitive) To furnish with a loft space.
- (transitive) To raise (a bed) on tall supports so that the space beneath can be used for something else.
adjective
- (obsolete, rare) lofty; proud; haughty
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Examples of "loft" in Sentences
- I can stop disinterring my loft then.
- He spends most of the time in the loft.
- The lofts nevertheless opened the following year.
- The orchestra is housed in a loft open to the audience.
- The family all slept in the attic loft of the one room house.
- In the rear of the chapel is a set of stairs and a loft area.
- The rest of the family slept in the hay loft, in the roof space.
- Instead, the artist retreated to the loft of the family icehouse.
- Besides that and the removal of the loft, the building remains intact.
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