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loft

[lawft, loft]

–noun

1.	a room, storage area, or the like within a sloping roof; attic; garret.

2.	a gallery or upper level in a church, hall, etc., designed for a special purpose: a choir loft.

3.	a hayloft.

4.	an upper story of a business building, warehouse, or factory, typically consisting of open, unpartitioned floor area.

5.	such an upper story converted or adapted to any of various uses, as quarters for living, studios for artists or dancers, exhibition galleries, or theater space.

6.	Also called loft bed. a balcony or platform built over a living area and used esp. for sleeping.

7.	Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. an attic.

Golf.

a.	the slope of the face of the head of a club backward from the vertical, tending to drive the ball upward.

b.	the act of lofting.

c.	a lofting stroke.

9.	the resiliency of fabric or yarn, esp. wool.

10.	the thickness of a fabric or of insulation used in a garment, as a down-filled jacket.

–verb (used with object)

11.	to hit or throw aloft: He lofted a fly ball into center field.

12.

Golf.

a.	to slant the face of (a club).

b.	to hit (a golf ball) into the air or over an obstacle.

c.	to clear (an obstacle) in this manner.

13.	to store in a loft.

14.	Shipbuilding. to form or describe (the lines of a hull) at full size, as in a mold loft; lay off.

15.	Archaic. to provide (a house, barn, etc.) with a loft.

–verb (used without object)

16.	to hit or throw something aloft, esp. a ball.

17.	to go high into the air when hit, as a ball.

Origin:
bef. 1000; ME lofte (n.), late OE loft < ON lopt upper chamber or region, the air, sky. See lift

Related forms:

loftless, adjective

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loft (lôft, lŏft)

1. A large, usually unpartitioned floor over a factory, warehouse, or other commercial or industrial space.
2. Such a floor converted into an apartment or artist's studio.
3. The backward slant of the face of a golf club head, designed to drive the ball in a high arc.
4. A golf stroke that drives the ball in a high arc.
5. The upward course of a ball driven in a high arc.
6. The thickness of a fabric or yarn.
7. The thickness of an item, such as a down comforter, that is filled with compressible insulating material.
An open space under a roof; an attic or garret.
A gallery or balcony, as in a church.
A hayloft.
Sports
1. The backward slant of the face of a golf club head, designed to drive the ball in a high arc.
2. A golf stroke that drives the ball in a high arc.
3. The upward course of a ball driven in a high arc.
4. The thickness of a fabric or yarn.
5. The thickness of an item, such as a down comforter, that is filled with compressible insulating material.
1. The thickness of a fabric or yarn.
2. The thickness of an item, such as a down comforter, that is filled with compressible insulating material.

v. loft·ed, loft·ing, lofts

v. tr.

To put, store, or keep in a loft.
To propel in a high arc: lofted the ball into the outfield.
Nautical To lay out a full-size drawing of (the parts of a ship's hull, for example).

v. intr.

To propel something, especially a ball, in a high arc.
To rise high into the air.

[Middle English, sky, upstairs room, from Old English, air, from Old Norse lopt, upstairs room, sky, air.]

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Loft

Loft\, n. [Icel. lopt air, heaven, loft, upper room; akin to AS. lyft air, G. luft, Dan. loft loft, Goth. luftus air. Cf. Lift, v. & n. ] That which is lifted up; an elevation. Hence, especially: (a) The room or space under a roof and above the ceiling of the uppermost story. (b) A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft. (c) A floor or room placed above another; a story.

Eutychus . . . fell down from the third loft. --Acts xx. 9.

On loft, aloft; on high. Cf. Onloft. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Loft

Loft\, a. Lofty; proud. [R. & Obs.] --Surrey.

Loft

Loft\, n. (Golf) Pitch or slope of the face of a club (tending to drive the ball upward).

Loft

Loft\, v. t. To make or furnish with a loft; to cause to have loft; as, a lofted house; a lofted golf-club head.

A wooden club with a lofted face. --Encyc. of Sport.

Loft

Loft\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Lofted; p. pr. & vb. n. Lofting.] To raise aloft; to send into the air; esp. (Golf), to strike (the ball) so that it will go over an obstacle.

Language Translation for : loft

Spanish: desván,

German: der Speicher,

Japanese: 屋根裏

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loft

"an upper chamber," c.1300, from late O.E. loft "air," from O.N. lopt "air, sky," originally "upper story, loft, attic" (Scand. -pt- pronounced like -ft-), from P.Gmc. *luftuz "air, sky" (cf. O.E. lyft, Du. lucht, O.H.G. luft, Ger. Luft, Goth. luftus "air"). Sense development is from "loft, ceiling" to "sky, air." Buck suggests ult. connection with O.H.G. louft "bark," louba "roof, attic," etc., with development from "bark" to "roof made of bark" to "ceiling," though this did not directly inform the meaning "air, sky." Meaning "gallery in a church" first attested 1504. Verb meaning "to hit a ball high in the air" is first attested 1857, originally in golf. Lofty "exalted" is from 14c.

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