Loft vs Oft - What's the difference?
loft | oft |
(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
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(bowling) To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.
(chiefly, poetic, dialectal, and in combination) often; frequently; not rarely; many times.
* 1623', , Volume 4, 1778,
* 1819', , John Galt (biography), ''The Pophecy of Dante'', Canto the Fourth, '''1857 , ''The Complete Works of Lord Byron , Volume 1,
* 1902 , James H. Mulligan, In Kentucky'', quoted in 2005, Wade Hall (editor), ''The Kentucky Anthology ,
As a noun loft
is air.As an initialism oft is
(uk) (office of fair trading).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.}}
oft
English
Adverb
(er)- An oft -told tale
page 45,
- What I can do, can do no hurt to try: / Since you ?et up your re?t 'gain?t remedy: / He that of greate?t works is fini?her, / Oft does them by the weake?t mini?ter; / So holy writ in babes hath judgment ?hown, / When judges have been babes.
page 403,
- And how is it that they, the sons of fame, / Whose inspiration seems to them to shine / From high, they whom the nations oftest name, / Must pass their days in penury or pain, / Or step to grandeur through the paths of shame, / And wear a deeper brand and gaudier chain?
page 203,
- The moonlight falls the softest / In Kentucky; / The summer days come oftest / In Kentucky;