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Garret vs Loft - What's the difference?

garret | loft |

As nouns the difference between garret and loft

is that garret is an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house while loft is air, the air; the sky, the heavens.

As a verb loft is

to propel high into the air.

As an adjective loft is

lofty; proud; haughty.

garret

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house.
  • * 1660 , Samuel Pepys Diary'', January 1.
    • This morning (we living lately in the garret ,) I rose, put on my suit with great skirts, having not lately worn any other clothes but them.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1866, author= (translated by Constance Garnett), title=Crime and Punishment, section=Part I, Chapter I citation
    • , passage=On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1895, author=, title=Lilith
    • , passage=I was in the main garret , with huge beams and rafters over my head, great spaces around me, a door here and there in sight, and long vistas whose gloom was thinned by a few lurking cobwebbed windows and small dusky skylights.}}

    Derived terms

    * like a cat in a strange garret

    Anagrams

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    loft

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.
    • an organ loft
  • (obsolete) A floor or room placed above another.
  • * Bible, Acts xx. 9
    • Eutychus fell down from the third loft .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To propel high into the air.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 28 , author=Tom Rostance , title=Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos , work=BBC Sport 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.}}
  • (bowling) To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.

    • Related terms

    * aloft * hayloft, hay loft * lofty

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete, rare) lofty; proud; haughty
    • (Surrey)
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