loft
鸽子,阁楼,鸽舍,鸽鸽子
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Definitions
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- : a room, storage area, or the like within a sloping roof; attic; garret.
- : a gallery or upper level in a church, hall, etc., designed for a special purpose: a choir loft.
- : a hayloft.
- : an upper story of a business building, warehouse, or factory, typically consisting of open, unpartitioned floor area.
- : such an upper story converted or adapted to any of various uses, as quarters for living, studios for artists or dancers, exhibition galleries, or theater space.
- : Also called loft bed . a balcony or platform built over a living area and used especially for sleeping.
- : Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. an attic.
- : Golf. the slope of the face of the head of a club backward from the vertical, tending to drive the ball upward.the act of lofting.a lofting stroke.
- : the resiliency of fabric or yarn, especially wool.
- : the thickness of a fabric or of insulation used in a garment, as a down-filled jacket.
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- : to hit or throw aloft: He lofted a fly ball into center field.
- : Golf. to slant the face of.to hit into the air or over an obstacle.to clear in this manner.
- : to store in a loft.
- : Shipbuilding. to form or describe at full size, as in a mold loft; lay off.
- : Archaic. to provide with a loft.
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- : to hit or throw something aloft, especially a ball.
- : to go high into the air when hit, as a ball.
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Examples
If you’re one of the lucky few who naturally sleep this way, look for a pillow with medium firmness and loft to elevate the neck slightly.
Look for a pillow with a low loft, which puts the top closer to the mattress, and is filled with soft support from down or feathers.
The actual loft of the face changes as you go from the top to the bottom of the club, which helps negate the ill-effects of hitting the ball too early or late in your stroke.
The neighborhood boasts plenty of lofts, cafes, and trendy shops and restaurants.
Electric forces also loft dust into Earth’s atmosphere, Grossman notes.
South Korean activists are already planning to loft them over the Demilitarized Zone in balloons.
In testimony, witnesses described a lifestyle that included “a downtown loft and several luxury cars.”
We kept going up until we found ourselves in a vast Sharkarama, a huge loft with fake sharks hung from hooks everywhere.
A few weeks ago I was invited to a Soho loft for a board game day.
The Arsenal has been converted to “Manhattan style, loft apartments,” the vast majority still unsold.
She should not show panic because of the mysterious noise in the loft of the abandoned Carter house.
Frank climbs up the tall ladder to the loft, which is the second story of the barn, and throws down the hay.
I sawed off the upper four feet carefully, and stowed the remainder back in the loft.
I had rather sleep upon a pallet in a loft, by myself, than in the handsomest room in the house, with her for a room-mate.
So alarmed were we for our safety that we crossed that night into a third valley and slept in the loft of a horse-barn.