Loft

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A large, usually unpartitioned floor over a factory, warehouse, or other commercial or industrial space.
  • noun. Such a floor converted into an apartment or artist's studio.
  • noun. An open space under a roof; an attic or garret.
  • noun. A gallery or balcony, as in a church.
  • noun. A hayloft.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The backward slant of the face of a golf club head, designed to drive the ball up off the ground.
  • noun. A golf stroke that drives the ball in a high arc.
  • noun. The upward course of a ball driven in a high arc.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The thickness of a fabric or yarn.
  • noun. The thickness of an item, such as a down comforter, that is filled with compressible insulating material.
  • intransitive verb. To put, store, or keep in a loft.
  • intransitive verb. To propel in a high arc.
  • intransitive verb. To lay out a full-size drawing of (the parts of a ship's hull, for example).
  • intransitive verb. To propel something, especially a ball, in a high arc.
  • intransitive verb. To rise high into the air.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To furnish with a loft.
  • noun. The air; the sky: same as lift. See on loft (below), aloft.
  • noun. A room or space between a ceiling or flooring and the roof immediately above it; the space below and between the rafters; a garret.
  • noun. A floor or room above another or others; an upper story; especially, in the United States, one of the upper stories of a warehouse or other mercantile building, or of a factory.
  • noun. A gallery or an elevated apartment within a larger apartment, as in a church, hall, barn, etc.: as, an organ-loft; a hay-loft.
  • noun. In golf: The act of lofting.
  • noun. The stroke so made.
  • noun. The degree of slope from the vertical of the face of a club.
  • To lift; in golf, to play (the ball) into the air in making a stroke.
  • noun. A pigeon-house.
  • noun. The flock of pigeons kept in it.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Lofty; proud.
  • transitive verb. To make or furnish with a loft; to cause to have loft.
  • noun. That which is lifted up; an elevation.
  • noun. The room or space under a roof and above the ceiling of the uppermost story.
  • noun. A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc..
  • noun. A floor or room placed above another; a story.
  • noun. Pitch or slope of the face of a club (tending to drive the ball upward).
  • noun. aloft; on high. Cf. Onloft.
  • verb. To raise aloft; to send into the air
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. air, the air; the sky, the heavens.
  • noun. An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.
  • noun. The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure.
  • verb. To propel high into the air.
  • verb. To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.
  • adjective. lofty; proud; haughty
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. lay out a full-scale working drawing of the lines of a vessel's hull
  • noun. (golf) the backward slant on the head of some golf clubs that is designed to drive the ball high in the air
  • verb. kick or strike high in the air
  • noun. floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage
  • verb. propel through the air
  • noun. floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space
  • Word Usage
    "Located in the Spears Building on West 22nd Street, the loft is approximately 3,600 sq. feet with three bedrooms and three bathrooms."
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    lofted  lofting  
    Hypernym
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    hit  impel  lay out  pitch  propel  
    Rhyme
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    Croft  Microsoft  aloft  coughed  croft  
    Same Context
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    alcove  apartment  attic  barn  barrack  
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    lofted  lofting  lofts