Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - loft
Loft
loft
n. & v. --n. 1 the space under the roof of a house, above the ceiling of the top floor; an attic. 2 a room over a stable, esp. for hay and straw. 3 a gallery in a church or hall (organ-loft). 4 US an upstairs room. 5 a pigeon-house. 6 Golf a a backward slope in a club-head. b a lofting stroke. --v.tr. 1 a send (a ball etc.) high up. b clear (an obstacle) in this way. 2 (esp. as lofted adj.) give a loft to (a golf club). Etymology: OE f. ON lopt air, sky, upper room, f. Gmc (as LIFT)
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English, air, sky, from Old Norse lopt; akin to Old High German luft air Date: 13th century an upper room or floor ; attic, 2. a gallery in a church or hall, one of the upper floors of a warehouse or business building especially when not partitioned , hay~, 3. the backward slant of the face of a golf-club head, the act of ~ing, the thickness of a fabric or insulating material (as goose down), ~like adjective II. verb Date: 1518 transitive verb to place, house, or store in a ~, to propel through the air or into space , to lay out a full-sized working drawing of the lines and contours of (as a ship's hull), intransitive verb to propel a ball high into the air, to rise high ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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