loft

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An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.

sostantivo

1
obsoletoAir, the air; the sky, the heavens.
2
An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.
3
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.
an artist's loft
4
The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure.
maximum loft
5
A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.
a choir loft
6
A residential flat (apartment) on an upper floor of an apartment building.
a Manhattan loft
Today, with a loft in Manhattan and a condo in Century City, they are the epitome of the bi-coastal couple.
7
The pitch or slope of the face of a golf club (tending to drive the ball upward).
8
A lofted drive.
9
obsoletoA floor or room placed above another.
Eutychus […] fell down from the third loft.
10
Variante di pigeon loftEllipsis of pigeon loft.
Releasing some of the 12,000 racing pigeons that had arrived by special train (in foreground) at Dumfries Station for a race to their home lofts in Lanarkshire and West Lothian

Etimologia

From Middle English lofte (“air, sky, upper region, loft”), from Old English loft, (doublet of native Old English lyft) of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse lopt (“upper chamber, attic, region of sky, air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“air, sky”). Akin to Scots lift (“air; sky; firmament”), Dutch lucht (“air”), German Luft (“air”), Old English lyft (“air”). Doublet of lift and luft. Related to aloft. Cognate with Scots loft, laft (“loft”), Irish lochta (“loft”).

verbo

1
To propel high into the air.
Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal.
2
To fly or travel through the air, as though propelled
When she saw houses lofting past her window, she ran to the child, who slept on a feather bed and she gathered the coverlet around them both.
3
To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.
4
To furnish with a loft space.
Two sisters, one under fifteen years of age, have lofted the house, so as to have a room for themselves.
5
To raise (a bed) on tall supports so that the space beneath can be used for something else.
Lofting a bed is much harder work than it seems, and pulling a nail out with the back of a hammer is much simpler than using your own nails.

aggettivo

1
obsoletoLofty; proud; haughty.
A heart, where dread was never so imprest To hide the thought that might the truth advance; In neither fortune loft, nor yet represt

Forme

plurale: lofts
comparativo: more loft
superlativo: most loft
passato: lofted
participio passato: lofted
participio presente: lofting
3ª persona singolare: lofts

Lodge · A surname.lodged · Lying down, with head raised; used of beasts of the chase…lodging · A place to live or lodge.

loft · An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.

Loft · A surname.LOFT · loss of fluid test log · The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.

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