单词 | lofting |
释义 | loftingn. 1. concrete. A roofing, ceiling, or flooring. Obsolete exc. dialect and in Mining. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > floor > [noun] fleta1000 floorc1000 floorth1303 loftingc1540 contignation1592 loft1596 contabulation1615 flooring1624 planchera1825 contablature1827 ground1847 Rory O'More1857 floor level1874 Rory1938 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > ceiling > [noun] roofeOE firstOE first-roofOE silour1424 siling1483 ceiling1535 loftingc1540 loft1596 floor1600 plafond1664 top1709 ceil1840 planchment1874 laquearia1922 overhead1942 c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. xiv. x. f. 212v/1 Quhen ony preis of hors men come aboue ye said fowseis, ye lofting suld brek. 1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1891) 76 Tymber to serve for loftinges and roffes. 1640 in J. Nicholson Minute Bk. War Comm. Covenanters Kirkcudbright 19 Oct. (1855) 66 That the sklait roofe of the hows and batlement thairof be taken downe with the lofting thairof. 1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 35 Lofting, wood..placed upon the top of the ordinary balks or crowntrees used in timbering through a fallen place, for the purpose of keeping up the loose stones. 2. Golf. The action of loft v. (sense 3). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [noun] > types of play putting1690 short game1858 approach1879 iron play1879 pitch1889 duffing1890 hook1890 loft1890 lofting1895 slicing1899 bunkering1909 socketing1911 shanking1924 foozling1927 Stableford1937 shotmaking1969 1895 Westm. Gaz. 4 Feb. 8/2 Golfers who can skate should be proficient at bandy, in which lofting is a most desirable accomplishment. 3. Aeronautics. The action of a loftsman. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > construction and servicing aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > lofting design drawings lofting1939 1939 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 43 140 I should like to mention two or three operations coming under the control of the engineering department... One of these is the mould loft. The art of lofting as it is now generally followed in American aircraft production was, of course, borrowed from the ship-building industry. 1956 W. A. Heflin U.S. Air Force Dict. 304/1 Lofting, as applied to airplanes, the act or process of laying out full-size drawings of an airplane that is to be built, of designing and making templates, etc. 1972 Lebende Sprachen 17 73/2 The production of aircraft part drawings, preparation of magnetic tape for machine-tool control, and many lofting, drawing and checking jobs are to be automated. Compounds attributive and in other combinations: lofting-iron n. a golf-club used to loft a ball. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > club > types of club play club1685 putting club1690 gentlemen's club1709 putter1783 spoon1790 iron1793 sand-iron1796 whip-club1808 cleek1829 driving putter1833 bunker-iron1857 driver1857 niblick1857 putting iron1857 baffing-spoon1858 mid-spoon1858 short spoon1858 sand-club1873 three-wood1875 long iron1877 driving cleek1881 mashie1881 putting cleek1881 track-iron1883 driving iron1887 lofting-iron1887 baffy1888 brassy1888 bulger1889 lofter1889 lofter1892 jigger1893 driving mashie1894 mid-iron1897 mashie-niblick1907 wood1915 pinsplitter1916 chipper1921 blaster1937 sand-wedge1937 wedge1937 1887 W. G. Simpson Art of Golf 22 Lofting irons are more light-headed. 1892 Cent. Mag. Aug. 606 The approach should always be a lofting-stroke. Draft additions 1997 lofting pole n. in pigeon-shooting, a pole used for placing decoys in trees, etc. (cf. lofter n.2). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > [noun] > decoy flight-pond1801 playstick1878 finchery1887 lofting pole1964 lofter1972 1964 C. L. Coles Shooting Pigeons viii. 60 A rubber pigeon mounted on the top of wooden lofting poles. 1987 Shooting Mag. Mar. 34/3 The kit takes its name from an ingeniously designed set of light alloy tubes which, using the metal collars supplied, can be fitted together to make a lofting pole tall enough to place a decoy some 25 ft. up in a tree. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2019). loftingadj. Of a stroke in golf: that lofts. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [adjective] > types of stroke heeled1887 lofted1887 sliced1890 sclaffy1896 foozled1899 lofting1905 duffed1906 holeable1909 socketed1911 explosive1912 chipped1916 fluffed1923 missable1924 bump-and-run1978 1905 Westm. Gaz. 25 Aug. 3/1 Why to go for a low-running shot or for a high lofting shot, respectively. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.c1540adj.1905 |
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