<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a room, storage area, or the like within a sloping roof; attic; garret.</li><li>a gallery or upper level in a church, hall, etc., designed for a special purpose: a choir loft.</li><li>a hayloft.</li><li>an upper story of a business building, warehouse, or factory, typically consisting of open, unpartitioned floor area.</li><li>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.</li><li>Also called loft bed.</li><li>a balcony or platform built over a living area and used especially for sleeping.</li><li>Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S.: an attic.</li><li>Golf: the slope of the face of the head of a club backward from the vertical, tending to drive the ball upward.</li><li>the act of lofting.</li><li>a lofting stroke.</li><li>the resiliency of fabric or yarn, especially wool.</li><li>the thickness of a fabric or of insulation used in a garment, as a down-filled jacket.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object)</li><li>to hit or throw aloft: He lofted a fly ball into center field.</li><li>Golf: to slant the face of (a club).</li><li>to hit (a golf ball) into the air or over an obstacle.</li><li>to clear (an obstacle) in this manner.</li><li>to store in a loft.</li><li>Shipbuilding: to form or describe (the lines of a hull) at full size, as in a mold loft; lay off.</li><li>Archaic: to provide (a house, barn, etc.) with a loft.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object)</li><li>to hit or throw something aloft, especially a ball.</li><li>to go high into the air when hit, as a ball.</li></ul>