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What does lofting mean?
Wiktionary 
- lofting (Noun)
An upper part; ceiling. - lofting (Noun)
Lagging or longitudinal timber resting on caps to support the roof of a working. - lofting (Verb)
Present participle of loft.
Part of speech
🔤- lofting, verb, gerund of loft (infinitive).
WordNet
NounPlural: lofts |
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| loft - floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage | ||
| attic, garret | ||
| storey, story, level, floor a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines" | ||
| house play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults; "the children were playing house" | ||
| cockloft a small loft or garret | ||
| loft - floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space | ||
| storey, story, level, floor a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines" | ||
| loft - (golf) the backward slant on the head of some golf clubs that is designed to drive the ball high in the air | ||
| slant, rake, pitch a biased way of looking at or presenting something | ||
| loft - a raised shelter in which pigeons are kept | ||
| pigeon loft | ||
Verb |
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| loft - store in a loft | ||
| store keep or lay aside for future use; "store grain for the winter"; "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat" | ||
| loft - lay out a full-scale working drawing of the lines of a vessel's hull | ||
| lay out provide a detailed plan or design; "She laid out her plans for the new house" | ||
| loft - kick or strike high in the air; "loft a ball" | ||
| hit pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars" | ||
| loft - propel through the air; "The rocket lofted the space shuttle into the air" | ||
| impel, propel urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate | ||
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Wiktionary
- loft (Noun)
air, the air; the sky, the heavens. - loft (Noun)
An attic or similar space often used for storage in the roof of a house or other building. - loft (Noun)
The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure. - loft (Verb)
To propel high into the air. - loft (Verb)
To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface. - loft (Adjective)
lofty; proud; haughty.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- loft (n.)
That which is lifted up; an elevation. - loft (n.)
The room or space under a roof and above the ceiling of the uppermost story. - loft (n.)
A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft. - loft (n.)
A floor or room placed above another; a story. - loft (a.)
Lofty; proud.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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loft
loft, n. the room or space immediately under a roof: a gallery in a hall or church: an upper room.—v.t. to furnish with a loft: (golf) to strike the ball up by means of a club called the Loft′er.—adv. Loft′ily.—n. Loft′iness.—adj. Loft′y, high in position, character, sentiment, or diction: stately: haughty.—Lofted house (Scot.), a house of more than one story.—Cock of the loft, the head or chief of a set. [Ice. lopt (loft), the sky, an upper room; A.S. lyft, Ger. luft, the air.]
