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Meanings of loft (lofting) in English

Portuguese
mansarda
Catalan
golfes
Spanish
loft

Floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage.

        mansarda
        Catalan
        colomer

        A raised shelter in which pigeons are kept.

              colomer
              Usage of lofting in English
              1
              Twelve weeks later, it flew again, lofting an Indonesian communications satellite.
              Wired
              2
              A lofting charge big enough to send it further would burst the tube.
              Knife of dreams
              3
              One of the Skipper's assistants was unsuccessfully lofting paper airplanes toward his wastepaper basket.
              Magic terror: seven tales
              4
              Horizontal holes are frequently put in and artificial beds made by "lofting."
              Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891
              5
              Banton played a glorious off-drive before lofting Ferguson over mid-wicket for a mighty six.
              BBC
              6
              We're talking about lofting cars off of the ground.
              Wired
              7
              He good-naturedly consented to try lofting and approaching shots.
              John Henry Smith / A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life
              8
              She and Amagê turned in horror to see great boulders lofting from over the Roman walls.
              Imperatrix
              9
              Negative stimulants included chasing, pepper spray and lofting projectiles of different intensity: rocks, slingshots and rubber slugs.
              Wired
              10
              Her brows lifted, lofting the sparrow higher.
              Blood Rights
              11
              That is good, because about half his blood supply comes lofting out the top of his neck.
              Snow Crash
              12
              The atrium in the Dallas Hilton Anatole hotel is Texas-big, lofting more than 150 feet in the air.
              Wired
              13
              To make lofting tubes from bronze.
              Knife of dreams
              14
              The golden tube crackled, shortened and left a fiery glowing tip beneath a lofting of silky grey smoke.
              Surface detail
              15
              To my surprise, I saw Quicksilver's form lofting into a long leap over the trunk and into the backseat.
              Silver zombie: delilah street: paranormal investigator
              16
              He watched his Rover crew scramble up the masts, lofting the sails and fastening the radian draws in place.
              Ilse Witch
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              Translations for lofting
              Spanish
              loft
              Lofting through the time