loft
1 of 2noun
ˈlȯft 
1
: an upper room or floor : attic
2
a
: a gallery in a church or hall
b
: one of the upper floors of a warehouse or business building especially when not partitioned
living in a converted loft
c
: hayloft
3
a
: the backward slant of the face of a golf-club head
b
: the act of lofting
4
: the thickness of a fabric or insulating material (such as goose down)
loftlike
ˈlȯft-ˌlīk
adjective loft
2 of 2verb
lofted; lofting; lofts
transitive verb
1
: to place, house, or store in a loft
2
: to propel through the air or into space
lofted a long hit to center
instruments lofted by a powerful rocket
3
: to lay out a full-sized working drawing of the lines and contours of (such as a ship's hull)
intransitive verb
1
: to propel a ball high into the air
2
: to rise high
Synonyms
Noun
- attic
- cockloft
- garret
Verb
- cast
- catapult
- chuck
- dash
- fire
- fling
- heave
- hurl
- hurtle
- launch
- lob
- peg
- pelt
- pitch
- sling
- throw
- toss
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Example Sentences
Noun The kids' bedroom has a loft. He rents a converted loft. Verb He lofted a home run into the stands. The explosion lofted dust high into the air.
Recent Examples on the Web
Hillary Kelly, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2022 The homeowner’s studio supports a bevy of creative endeavors and the loft is outfitted with a desk, sofa, and yoga mats. Marni Elyse Katz, House Beautiful, 17 Aug. 2022 The cabin was left basically untouched and serves as a living area with the sleeping loft above. Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Jan. 2022 The man shouts up to the loft into which a ladder disappears, and after a minute’s rummage some invisible hand tosses down bundles of fresh stock and a packet of sample invitations. Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022 Lin had been using the four-story loft as an office for his production studio, and listing photos show how flexible the space is. Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2022 West Elm Give a wooden loft bed a soft touch with upholstered panels on each side of it, like this one available at West Elm. Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 30 Aug. 2022 Near the barn loft where 12 beds were arranged for hikers, the colossal slope of Sobutsch was covered in pine and prairie and massive boulders before sweeping almost vertically up through stony debris and gashes from previous rockfalls. Kenneth R. Rosen, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2022 The sixth-floor loft is being offered up by art curator and scholar, Susan Vogel, alongside her partner Kenneth Prewitt, as reported by the New York Post. Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 26 Aug. 2022 New York Times, 31 July 2022 The front end is light and easy to loft, the back end a joy to flick around, and the bike is buoyant off of bumps and jumps. Outside Online, 29 May 2021 The company plans to use a balloon as its first stage to loft a small rocket to an altitude above much of the Earth's atmosphere, about 30 km, before releasing a rocket capable of launching cubesats into orbit. Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 1 July 2022 Clothing and sleeping bags made from down will benefit from semi-regular washing—once a year, or as needed—because your sweat and body oils will slowly compromise their ability to loft and, therefore, provide insulation. Wes Siler, Outside Online, 24 July 2020 In the 52nd minute, Kansas City was asleep defensively, allowing Yimmi Chara to loft a ball ahead to a wide open Blanco. oregonlive, 14 May 2022 Tepera replaced Loup and got Trey Mancini to loft a sacrifice fly to Marsh in medium left. Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2022 That flight was something of a shakedown cruise, demonstrating that SpaceX could loft anyone to orbit, and helping the company clean up some minor issues, like a leaky onboard toilet. Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 14 Feb. 2022 Amy’s Manhattan loft to go over the in-progress monologue. Vogue, 22 Apr. 2022 See More
Noun
Back home, Betsy climbed up to the loft and peered around. Hillary Kelly, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2022 The homeowner’s studio supports a bevy of creative endeavors and the loft is outfitted with a desk, sofa, and yoga mats. Marni Elyse Katz, House Beautiful, 17 Aug. 2022 The cabin was left basically untouched and serves as a living area with the sleeping loft above. Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Jan. 2022 The man shouts up to the loft into which a ladder disappears, and after a minute’s rummage some invisible hand tosses down bundles of fresh stock and a packet of sample invitations. Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022 Lin had been using the four-story loft as an office for his production studio, and listing photos show how flexible the space is. Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2022 West Elm Give a wooden loft bed a soft touch with upholstered panels on each side of it, like this one available at West Elm. Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 30 Aug. 2022 Near the barn loft where 12 beds were arranged for hikers, the colossal slope of Sobutsch was covered in pine and prairie and massive boulders before sweeping almost vertically up through stony debris and gashes from previous rockfalls. Kenneth R. Rosen, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2022 The sixth-floor loft is being offered up by art curator and scholar, Susan Vogel, alongside her partner Kenneth Prewitt, as reported by the New York Post. Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 26 Aug. 2022 Verb
Keira Walsh, finally granted a pocket of air, cutting the German defense in two; Ella Toone quick-minded enough to loft the ball over Merle Frohms, the onrushing goalkeeper. New York Times, 31 July 2022 The front end is light and easy to loft, the back end a joy to flick around, and the bike is buoyant off of bumps and jumps. Outside Online, 29 May 2021 The company plans to use a balloon as its first stage to loft a small rocket to an altitude above much of the Earth's atmosphere, about 30 km, before releasing a rocket capable of launching cubesats into orbit. Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 1 July 2022 Clothing and sleeping bags made from down will benefit from semi-regular washing—once a year, or as needed—because your sweat and body oils will slowly compromise their ability to loft and, therefore, provide insulation. Wes Siler, Outside Online, 24 July 2020 In the 52nd minute, Kansas City was asleep defensively, allowing Yimmi Chara to loft a ball ahead to a wide open Blanco. oregonlive, 14 May 2022 Tepera replaced Loup and got Trey Mancini to loft a sacrifice fly to Marsh in medium left. Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2022 That flight was something of a shakedown cruise, demonstrating that SpaceX could loft anyone to orbit, and helping the company clean up some minor issues, like a leaky onboard toilet. Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 14 Feb. 2022 Amy’s Manhattan loft to go over the in-progress monologue. Vogue, 22 Apr. 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, from Old English, air, sky, from Old Norse lopt; akin to Old High German luft air
First Known Use
Noun
13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb
1518, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
Phrases Containing loft
Kids Definition
loft
noun
ˈlȯft
1
: an upper room or upper story of a building
2
: a balcony in a church
3
: an upper part of a barn
lofts 1 of 2
noun
as in attics
a room or unfinished space directly beneath the roof of a building the cottage has two bedrooms on the ground floor and a second-floor loft that could be converted into a third one Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- attics
- garrets
- haylofts
- cocklofts
lofts
2 of 2verb
as in throws
to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm he lofted the ball down the center of the field toward a receiver Synonyms & Similar Words
- throws
- tosses
- slings
- hurls
- fires
- bowls
- flings
- pitches
- catapults
- pegs
- launches
- lobs
- pelts
- chucks
- casts
- heaves
- darts
- guns
- dashes
- rifles
- hurtles
- projects
- flips
- hooks
- rolls
- lets fly
- thrusts
- shoots
- propels
- passes
- bucks
- ejects
- precipitates
- impels