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)
lofted; lofting; lofts
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)
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Examples of loft in a Sentence
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.
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Tiana Randall, Architectural Digest, 7 Feb. 2025
The loft building is to be used for apartments and the industrial building for residential amenities, like a community center and courtyard, a Brinshore representative said.
—Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 22 Jan. 2025
The first one, which flew in January 2021, lofted 143 satellites to orbit, a single-launch record that still stands.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 21 Dec. 2024
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Noun
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Today, AD welcomes interior designer Darren Jett to tour one of his most recent design projects, a full Soho loft renovation.
—Tiana Randall, Architectural Digest, 7 Feb. 2025
The loft building is to be used for apartments and the industrial building for residential amenities, like a community center and courtyard, a Brinshore representative said.
—Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
Verb
Some of the earliest reports, from 1947 to 1949, were sightings of military assets that were part of the Department of Defense’s Project Mogul, under which the Air Force lofted high altitude balloons carrying sensitive microphones designed to pick up sonic signatures of Soviet nuclear tests.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 22 Jan. 2025
The first one, which flew in January 2021, lofted 143 satellites to orbit, a single-launch record that still stands.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 21 Dec. 2024
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“Loft.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loft. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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loft
2 of 2 verb1
: to place, house, or store in a loft
2
: to strike or throw a ball so that it rises high in the air
lofted a high fly to center field
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