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Loft vs Resilience - What's the difference?

loft | resilience |

As nouns the difference between loft and resilience

is that loft is air while resilience is resilience (the mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune).

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.
  • Adjective

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

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia resilience)
  • The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
  • The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.
  • The positive ability of a system or company to adapt itself to the consequences of a catastrophic failure caused by power outage, a fire, a bomb or similar (particularly IT systems, archives).