Loft



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• n.阁楼, 顶楼
• ［英］ n.阁楼, 顶楼 ( an attic or attic-like space)
• ［例］ He sleeps in the loft.

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle English, from Old English, air, sky, from Old Norse lopt; akin to Old High German luft air
• Date: 13th century
• 1. an upper room or floor ; attic
• 2.
  • a. a gallery in a church or hall
  • b. one of the upper floors of a warehouse or business building especially when not partitioned <living in a converted loft>
  • c. hayloft
• 3.
  • a. the backward slant of the face of a golf-club head
  • b. the act of lofting
• 4. the thickness of a fabric or insulating material (as goose down)
• ? loftlike adjective

II. verb

• Date: 1518
• transitive verb
  • 1. to place, house, or store in a loft
  • 2. to propel through the air or into space <lofted a long hit to center><instruments lofted by a powerful rocket>
  • 3. to lay out a full-sized working drawing of the lines and contours of (as a ship's hull)
• intransitive verb
  • 1. to propel a ball high into the air
  • 2. to rise high

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