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LOFT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage

Synonyms:

attic; garret; loft

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("loft" is a kind of...):

floor; level; storey; story (a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "loft"):

cockloft (a small loft or garret)

hayloft; haymow; mow (a loft in a barn where hay is stored)

Holonyms ("loft" is a part of...):

house (a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families)

Derivation:

loft (store in a loft)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A raised shelter in which pigeons are kept

Synonyms:

loft; pigeon loft

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("loft" is a kind of...):

shelter (a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("loft" is a kind of...):

floor; level; storey; story (a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "loft"):

artist's loft (a factory loft that has been converted into an artist's workroom and living area)

Derivation:

loft (store in a loft)

Sense 4

Meaning:

(golf) the backward slant on the head of some golf clubs that is designed to drive the ball high in the air

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("loft" is a kind of...):

pitch; rake; slant (degree of deviation from a horizontal plane)

Domain category:

golf; golf game (a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lay out a full-scale working drawing of the lines of a vessel's hull

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "loft" is one way to...):

lay out (provide a detailed plan or design)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Kick or strike high in the air

Example:

loft a ball

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "loft" is one way to...):

hit (cause to move by striking)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Propel through the air

Example:

The rocket lofted the space shuttle into the air

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "loft" is one way to...):

impel; propel (cause to move forward with force)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 4

Meaning:

Store in a loft

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "loft" is one way to...):

store (find a place for and put away for storage)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

loft (floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage)

loft (floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space)

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 Context examples: 

A frequent interlude of these performances was the enactment of the part of Eutychus by some half-dozen of little girls, who, overpowered with sleep, would fall down, if not out of the third loft, yet off the fourth form, and be taken up half dead.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

One of these lads sat up each night in the stable, while the others slept in the loft.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Alas! husband, replied she, and a wicked bird has come into the house, and has brought with her all the birds in the world, I am sure, and they have fallen upon our corn in the loft, and are eating it up at such a rate!

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Ham carrying me on his back and a small box of ours under his arm, and Peggotty carrying another small box of ours, we turned down lanes bestrewn with bits of chips and little hillocks of sand, and went past gas-works, rope-walks, boat-builders' yards, shipwrights' yards, ship-breakers' yards, caulkers' yards, riggers' lofts, smiths' forges, and a great litter of such places, until we came out upon the dull waste I had already seen at a distance; when Ham said, Yon's our house, Mas'r Davy!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The Simpson incident had shown me that a dog was kept in the stables, and yet, though some one had been in and had fetched out a horse, he had not barked enough to arouse the two lads in the loft.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The cook got up early, before daybreak, to feed the cows; and going straight to the hay-loft, carried away a large bundle of hay, with the little man in the middle of it, fast asleep.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)