Loft vs Deloft - What's the difference?
loft | deloft |
(obsolete, except in derivatives) air, the air; the sky, the heavens.
An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.
(textiles) The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure.
A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.
(obsolete) A floor or room placed above another.
* Bible, Acts xx. 9
To propel high into the air.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=September 28
, author=Tom Rostance
, title=Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos
, work=BBC Sport
(bowling) To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.
(golf) To reduce the loft of a stroke with.
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=April 13, author=Bill Pennington, title=Sorenstam’s Tips for Flop Shots in Tough Spots, work=New York Times
, passage=To ensure that you do not make a normal transfer of weight to your front foot during the swing, which may be good for full shots or chips but delofts the club in a flop shot, practice keeping your front heel off the ground throughout the swing. }}
As a noun loft
is air.As a verb deloft is
(golf) to reduce the loft of a stroke with.loft
English
Noun
(en noun)- an organ loft
- Eutychus fell down from the third loft .
Verb
(en verb)citation, page= , passage=Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal.}}
deloft
English
Verb
(en verb)citation