Lofted vs Looted - What's the difference?
lofted | looted |
(loft)
(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.
(loot)
A kind of scoop or ladle, chiefly used to remove the scum from brine-pans in saltworks.
The act of plundering.
plunder, booty, especially from a ransacked city.
(colloquial, US) any prize or profit received for free, especially Christmas presents
*1956 "Free Loot for Children" (LIFE Magazine, 23 April 1956,
(video games) Items dropped from defeated enemies in video games and online games.
to steal, especially as part of war, riot or other group violence.
*1833 "Gunganarian, the leader of the Chooars, continues his system of looting and murder", The asiatic Journal and monthly register for British India and its Dependencies Black, Parbury & Allen,
(video games) to examine the corpse of a fallen enemy for loot.
As verbs the difference between lofted and looted
is that lofted is (loft) while looted is (loot).lofted
English
Verb
(head)loft
English
Noun
(en noun)- an organ loft
- Eutychus fell down from the third loft .
Verb
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looted
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *loot
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) loet, loete .Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
Attested 1788, a loan from Hindustani . The verb is from 1842. Fallows (1885) records both the noun and the verb as "Recent. Anglo-Indian". In origin only applicable to plundering in warfare. A figurative meaning developed in American English in the 1920s, resulting in a generalized meaning by the 1950sNoun
(-)- the loot of an ancient city
p. 131)
Synonyms
* swagVerb
(en verb)p. 66.