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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
loft
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
house/barn/loft etc conversionBritish English (= when you change the use of a house, barn etc, so that it becomes apartments, a house, a room etc)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
conversion
▪ We put the tacker through its paces on a loft conversion.
▪ Done in a sympathetic way, a loft conversion can blend in almost anywhere.
▪ Provided there is space you will be able to install a traditional-style staircase for access to your loft conversion.
▪ Greg starts fantasising about a loft conversion.
insulation
▪ Allow the fluid to dry before laying the loft insulation.
▪ Ensure loft insulation is 6in thick.
▪ Grants are available towards the cost of loft insulation under the Homes Insulation Scheme.
▪ If you are in any of these categories the standard contribution is £10.70 for loft insulation and £7.50 for draft proofing.
▪ Possible applications range from loft insulation to making fitted furniture, so selecting the right board for the job is vital.
▪ Now there's a new, greener loft insulation material, Warmcel, made from recycled, fire-resistant paper.
ladder
▪ Getting into the loft however is a problem: a good loft ladder provides the simplest solution.
▪ Such a ladder is the Goldstar three-section loft ladder.
▪ First Floor Stained wood staircase rises to Landing: Access to insulate loft space with folding loft ladder.
space
▪ First Floor Stained wood staircase rises to Landing: Access to insulate loft space with folding loft ladder.
▪ Minimalist works were originally made in the Sixties for loft spaces.
▪ If they are not already lagged, lag the cold water tank and pipes in the loft space.
■ VERB
insulate
▪ Since we now insulate above loft ceilings and within flat roof structures, the air space above the insulation is cold.
▪ Glass fibre quilts can also be used to insulate loft rooms, where extremes of temperature can make living conditions very uncomfortable.
▪ Gee, there must be enough here to buy say, a cup of tea ... or insulate the loft.
▪ First Floor Stained wood staircase rises to Landing: Access to insulate loft space with folding loft ladder.
▪ Suppose you're decorating the living-room, insulating the loft, or knocking two rooms into one.
▪ When insulating the loft floor, bring the ends of the blanket up against the sides of the cistern to give continuity.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a hay loft
▪ Marris lives in a loft in lower Manhattan.
▪ the choir loft
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A trussed roof prevents free movement around the loft, as there are many timbers to climb over or through.
▪ I had somehow gotten it into my head that loft and locomotion could only be achieved through a two-step process.
▪ The part of the barn sited on top of these areas thus became a loft raised above the threshing floor.
▪ We love being up in the loft with him.
▪ Working in the loft Working in the loft is unpleasant and somewhat hazardous.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A good filling will retain its resilience and ability to loft for many years.
▪ A halo rich with rust is lofted round the heads Of James and John and Peter.
▪ Always be sure that the lifting kite is stable before thinking about lofting the camera.
▪ David Justice was next, and he lofted what appeared to be a routine fly ball to medium center.
▪ Dollar hit Johnson under the basket, and he lofted the ball in over his head.
▪ Hostetler capped the drive by evading the pass rush, scrambling to his left and lofting a four-yard touchdown pass to Jett.
▪ Random stitching: Some synthetic bags are quilted in a random-stitch pattern, intended to allow the filling to loft more easily.
▪ Rumors swept up from the factory floor and lofted back down again from the cubicles of middle management.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Loft

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

Loft

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.

Loft

Loft \Loft\ (l[o^]ft), 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. ]

  1. That which is lifted up; an elevation. Hence, especially:

    1. The room or space under a roof and above the ceiling of the uppermost story.

    2. A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft.

    3. A floor or room placed above another; a story. especially, an upper story located in a building with a business below, often having no partitions, and in cities sometimes converted into living quarters, or used as studios for artists.

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

  2. (Golf) Pitch or slope of the face of a club (tending to drive the ball upward).

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

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
loft

"to hit a ball high in the air," 1856, originally in golf, from loft (n.). Related: Lofted; lofting. An earlier sense was "to put a loft on" (a building), 1560s; also "to store (goods) in a loft" (1510s).

loft

"an upper chamber," c.1300, from late Old English loft "the sky; the sphere of the air," from Old Norse lopt "air, sky," originally "upper story, loft, attic" (Scandinavian -pt- pronounced like -ft-), from Proto-Germanic *luftuz "air, sky" (cognates: Old English lyft, Dutch lucht, Old High German luft, German Luft, Gothic luftus "air").\n

\nSense development is from "loft, ceiling" to "sky, air." Buck suggests ultimate connection with Old High German 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." But Watkins says this is "probably a separate Germanic root." Meaning "gallery in a church" first attested c.1500.

Wiktionary
loft
  1. (context obsolete rare English) lofty; proud; haughty n. 1 (context obsolete except in derivatives English) air, 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 (context textiles English) The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure. 4 A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc. 5 (context golf English) The pitch or slope of the face of a golf club (tending to drive the ball upward). 6 (context obsolete English) A floor or room placed above another. v

  2. To propel high into the air.

WordNet
loft
  1. n. floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space

  2. floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage [syn: attic, garret]

  3. a raised shelter in which pigeons are kept [syn: pigeon loft]

  4. v. store in a loft

  5. propel through the air; "The rocket lofted the space shuttle into the air"

  6. kick or strike high in the air; "loft a ball"

  7. lay out a full-scale working drawing of the lines of a vessel's hull

Wikipedia
LOFT

The Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT) is a proposed ESA space mission originally slated to launch around 2022, and now proposed to launch around 2025. The mission will be devoted to the study of neutron stars, black holes and other compact objects by means of their very rapid X-ray variability. LOFT is supported by a large international collaboration, led by researchers spread over most of the European countries, including Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, United Kingdom, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, Czech Republic, Spain, and with contributions from Brazil, Canada, Israel, United States and Turkey. SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research acts as principal investigator.

The mission was submitted to the ESA Cosmic Vision M3 call for proposals, and was selected, together with other three missions, for an initial Assessment Phase.

On February 19, 2014, the PLATO mission was selected in favour of the other candidates in the programme, including LOFT. In spite of this, LOFT has been submitted to the Cosmic Vision M4 call for proposals for a planned launch date of 2025, if selected.

Loft (band)

Loft was a German electronic music group. It had a number of hit singles in the 1990s, including "Hold On'", "Love Is Magic", "Don't Stop Me Now", "Mallorca" and "Wake the World".

Loft (disambiguation)

A loft is a type of room or dwelling.

Loft, The Loft or LOFT may also refer to:

Loft (3D)

Loft is a variant of a wireframe volume of the 3D object, a technique used in 3D modeling packages such as Onshape, 3D Studio Max, Creo*, SolidWorks, and NX. It's developed from planar sections spaced along an approximate path.

Consider lofting in boat building to visualise the process, the planar sections are the boat ribs spaced along its length. The planking then forms the 3D volume as it develops a smooth skin between the ribs.

In PTCs Creo it is referred to as a Blend or Swept Blend.

Loft (2005 film)

Loft is a 2005 Japanese horror film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Miki Nakatani and Etsushi Toyokawa.

Loft (2008 film)

Loft is a 2008 Belgian erotic mystery film directed by Erik Van Looy and written by Bart De Pauw, starring an ensemble cast of notable Flemish actors.

Loft (store)

is a Japanese chain store that sells everyday commodities. There are Loft franchise stores in Japan and Thailand. Formerly a subsidiary of the , it is currently the subsidiary of Sogo & Seibu.

Loft (2010 film)

Loft is a 2010 Dutch crime film directed by Antoinette Beumer. It is a remake of the 2008 Belgian film.

Usage examples of "loft".

Celeste watched him with restless activity, made him take physic, applied blisters to him, went back and forth in the house, while old Amable remained at the edge of his loft, watching at a distance the gloomy cavern where his son lay dying.

Then old Amable, vanquished, without uttering a word, climbed back to his loft.

There were no memories to wake in the happy young hearts in the loft at Billabong that night.

The Window-Cleaner Tells his Name 6 The Search for the Missing Papers 7 The Secret Hiding Place 8 The Thief Escapes 9 The Runaway Coach 10 The Papers Recovered--and Puddleby Again FOREWORD When my husband, Hugh Lofting, wrote and illustrated this story of Pippinella, the green canary, for the New York Herald Tribune his intention was some day to publish the material in book form.

JOSEPHINE LOFTING PART ONE I THE DOCTOR MEETS THE GREEN CANARY THIS story of the further adventures of Pippinella, the green canary, begins during the time of the Dolittle Circus.

I went out again to look at the roof, getting as close as I could to the sides of the loft.

It could only light a loft, inhabited or uninhabited, above some rooms in the palace, the doors of which would probably be opened by day-break.

As soon as were opposite to it I told Balbi what I had done, and asked him if he could think of any way of getting into the loft.

This was Captain Cozenage, whose record while in charge of the Homicide Squad was without parallel in the annals of crime: as a result of which he had been, in rapid succession, switched to the Loft Robberies, Pigeon Drop, Unlicensed Phrenologists, and Mopery Squads: and was now entrusted with a letter-of-marque to suppress steamboat gamblers on the East River.

Head, MDCCXI, with dedicatory epiftle to his worthy friend Charles Cox, efquire, Member of Parliament for the burgh of Southwark and having ink calligraphed statement on the flyleaf certifying that the book was the property of Michael Gallagher, dated this 10th day of May 1822 and requefting the perfon who should find it, if the book should be loft or go aftray, to reftore it to Michael Gallagher, carpenter, Dufery Gate, Ennifcorthy, county Wicklow, the fineft place in the world.

The Tap Inn was mostly eatery and drinkery, with five empty stalls that barely merited the title of stable, but there was an overhead loft, and another copper gained me the privilege of paying three coppers to sleep there and three more to stable Gairloch.

Haskell called up his eprouvette mortars and put them just beyond the lip of the crater and had them loaded with a scant ounce and a half of powder, since all they had to do was loft the shells fifty feet to where the Federals milled about like a pen of shoats waiting for the hammer between the eyes.

As the long-limbed gleeman scrambled down the ladder from the loft, Lan spoke, stiffly formal.

I then threw into the loft the bundles and the fragments that I had broken off the window, and I stepped down to the monk, who welcomed me heartily and drew in the ladder.

She broke away from him, spread her wings, and, lofted into the dense, stultifying atmosphere of the lab-orb, returned the defective heuristic net to its circuit clamps high above his head.