Loft vs Elevator - What's the difference?
loft | elevator |
(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.
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(bowling) To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.
(US) Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
A silo used for storing wheat, corn or other grain (grain elevator )
(aeronautics) A control surface of an aircraft responsible for controling the pitching motion of the machine.
Trademark for a type of shoe having an insert lift to make the wearer appear taller.
A dental instrument used to pry up ("elevate") teeth in difficult extractions, or depressed portions of bone.
(anatomy) Any muscle that serves to raise a part of the body, such as the leg or the eye.
As nouns the difference between loft and elevator
is that loft is air while elevator is (us) permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.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.}}