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[ US /ˈɫɔft/ ]
[ UK /lˈɒft/ ]
NOUN
  1. floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage
  2. (golf) the backward slant on the head of some golf clubs that is designed to drive the ball high in the air
  3. a raised shelter in which pigeons are kept
  4. floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space
VERB
  1. store in a loft
  2. lay out a full-scale working drawing of the lines of a vessel's hull
  3. propel through the air
    The rocket lofted the space shuttle into the air
  4. kick or strike high in the air
    loft a ball

How To Use loft In A Sentence

  • The first, built by Solomon (1012 B.C.) appears from the Biblical description [6] to have combined Egyptian conceptions (successive courts, lofty entrance-pylons, the Sanctuary and the sekos or “Holy of Holies”) with A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
  • My friend James got a good deal on a couple of cases of wine but the only room he had for storage was in his loft.
  • But the motive behind her achievement was not self-interest alone, nor the desire to carry aloft the banner of feminism.
  • It was a responsible situation he felt for a boy of thirteen, and he meant to do his very best to keep it now that he had been lucky enough to get it; in the far-off future, too, he saw himself no longer the van-boy, but in the proud position now occupied by Joshua as driver, and this he considered, though a lofty, was by no means an unreasonable ambition. Our Frank and other stories
  • A delectable path, for example, runs up behind the cemetery, bordered by butterfly orchids and lithospermum and aristolochia and other plants worthy of better names; it winds aloft, under shady chestnuts, with views on either side. Alone
  • Conventional boilers heat up a store of water using a hot water cylinder in the airing cupboard and a header tank somewhere high - usually the loft.
  • The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft
  • And if there are residual cracks in Adele's pipes, you can't hear them: the word "hometown" easily wraps itself around the venue's lofting ironwork. Adele – review
  • In her studio in the loft at the top of the house, half-completed oil paintings sit alongside crayon masterpieces by her daughter.
  • After posting a "sunny, bright, cozy loft" on the rental marketplace, the woman, who uses the pseudonym EJ, returned to find the apartment ransacked by a renter using the name "DJ Pattrson. ABC News: Top Stories
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