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    loft
    /lɒft/

    noun

    • 1. a room or space directly under the roof of a house or other building, used for accommodation or storage: "the best way to prevent this heat loss is by insulating the loft"
    • 2. upward inclination given to the ball in a stroke.

    verb

    • 1. kick, hit, or throw (a ball or missile) high up: "he lofted the ball over the goalkeeper"

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  2. 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.

  3. a space at the top of a building under the roof used for storing things and usually entered by a ladder, or sometimes made into a room for living in: The firm specializes in loft conversions (= making lofts into rooms). US. an upper floor or room.

  4. Loft definition: a room, storage area, or the like within a sloping roof; attic; garret.. See examples of LOFT used in a sentence.

  5. a space at the top of a building under the roof used for storing things and usually entered by a ladder, or sometimes made into a room for living in: The firm specializes in loft conversions (= making lofts into rooms). US. an upper floor or room.

  6. A loft is an apartment in the upper part of a building, especially a building such as a warehouse or factory that has been converted for people to live in. Lofts are usually large and not divided into separate rooms.

  7. When you loft something, you throw it high into the air, the way a baseball player might loft a ball from the outfield all the way to first base. Any way you propel an object — whether you throw, kick, or slingshot it — if it launches up and across a distance, you loft it.

  8. 1. a. A large, usually unpartitioned floor over a factory, warehouse, or other commercial or industrial space. b. Such a floor converted into an apartment or artist's studio. 2. a. A partial floor occupying part of the space below the ceiling of a larger, high-ceilinged room. b.

  9. Definition of loft noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

  10. loft meaning, definition, what is loft: a room or space under the roof of a buil...: Learn more.

  11. An attic or atticlike space, usually not partitioned off into rooms, immediately below the roof of a house, barn, etc. Such a floor converted into an apartment or artist's studio. A gallery. The choir loft in a church.