What's the difference between high and loft?

High


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To hie.
  • (superl.) Elevated above any starting point of measurement, as a line, or surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high mountain, tower, tree; the sun is high.
  • (superl.) Regarded as raised up or elevated; distinguished; remarkable; conspicuous; superior; -- used indefinitely or relatively, and often in figurative senses, which are understood from the connection
  • (superl.) Elevated in character or quality, whether moral or intellectual; preeminent; honorable; as, high aims, or motives.
  • (superl.) Exalted in social standing or general estimation, or in rank, reputation, office, and the like; dignified; as, she was welcomed in the highest circles.
  • (superl.) Of noble birth; illustrious; as, of high family.
  • (superl.) Of great strength, force, importance, and the like; strong; mighty; powerful; violent; sometimes, triumphant; victorious; majestic, etc.; as, a high wind; high passions.
  • (superl.) Very abstract; difficult to comprehend or surmount; grand; noble.
  • (superl.) Costly; dear in price; extravagant; as, to hold goods at a high price.
  • (superl.) Arrogant; lofty; boastful; proud; ostentatious; -- used in a bad sense.
  • (superl.) Possessing a characteristic quality in a supreme or superior degree; as, high (i. e., intense) heat; high (i. e., full or quite) noon; high (i. e., rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i. e., complete) pleasure; high (i. e., deep or vivid) color; high (i. e., extensive, thorough) scholarship, etc.
  • (superl.) Strong-scented; slightly tainted; as, epicures do not cook game before it is high.
  • (superl.) Acute or sharp; -- opposed to grave or low; as, a high note.
  • (superl.) Made with a high position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate, as / (/ve), / (f/d). See Guide to Pronunciation, // 10, 11.
  • (adv.) In a high manner; in a high place; to a great altitude; to a great degree; largely; in a superior manner; eminently; powerfully.
  • (n.) An elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven.
  • (n.) People of rank or high station; as, high and low.
  • (n.) The highest card dealt or drawn.
  • (v. i.) To rise; as, the sun higheth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cancer patients showed abnormally high plasma free tryptophan levels.
  • (2) Results by these three assays were also highly reproducible.
  • (3) This trend appeared to reverse itself in the low dose animals after 3 hr, whereas in the high dose group, cardiac output continued to decline.
  • (4) Disease stabilisation was associated with prolonged periods of comparatively high plasma levels of drug, which appeared to be determined primarily by reduced drug clearance.
  • (5) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
  • (6) The angiographic appearances are highly characteristic and equal in value to a histological diagnosis.
  • (7) When micF was cloned into a high-copy-number plasmid it repressed ompF gene expression, whereas when cloned into a low-copy-number plasmid it did not.
  • (8) We also show that proliferation of primary amnion cells is not dependent on a high c-fos expression, suggesting that the function of c-fos is more likely to be associated with other cellular functions in the differentiated amnion cell.
  • (9) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
  • (10) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
  • (11) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
  • (12) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
  • (13) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
  • (14) These results demonstrate that increased availability of galactose, a high-affinity substrate for the enzyme, leads to increased aldose reductase messenger RNA, which suggests a role for aldose reductase in sugar metabolism in the lens.
  • (15) Five probes of high specificity to individual chromosomes (chromosomes 3, 11, 17, 18 and X) were hybridized in situ to metaphase chromosomes of different individuals.
  • (16) Morphological alterations in the lungs of pheasants after prolonged high-dosage administration of bleomycin sulfate were studied by light and electron microscopy.
  • (17) In vitro studies carried out in this Department confirmed the high activity of mecillinam against Salmonella spp.
  • (18) The high transition enthalpy for kerasin is ascribed to a lesser accommodation of gauche conformers in the hydrocarbon chains just below the transition temperature.
  • (19) beta-Endorphin blocked the development of fighting responses when a low footshock intensity was used, but facilitated it when a high shock intensity was delivered.
  • (20) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.

Loft


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is lifted up; an elevation.
  • (n.) The room or space under a roof and above the ceiling of the uppermost story.
  • (n.) A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft.
  • (n.) A floor or room placed above another; a story.
  • (a.) Lofty; proud.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Attach self-adhesive foam strips, or metal strips with brushes or wipers attached, to window, door and loft-hatch frames (if you have sash windows, it's better to ask a professional to do it).
  • (2) San Francisco Tenderloin map They could potentially gentrify this gritty, 50-block swath of downtown into condos, lofts, hipster bars, organic cafes and yoga studios, as has happened in other parts of San Francisco and the Bay area.
  • (3) It found that on average, loft insulation decreases home gas consumption by 1.7%, cavity wall insulation by 7.8% and a new boiler by 9.2% (median figures were slightly higher).
  • (4) This miscalibration, in turn, generates the orientation bias observed for deflector-loft birds.
  • (5) Toure then lofts a very neat ball over the defence and, though two City players are offside, Aguero is on.
  • (6) As well as 20 bedrooms there are a couple of loft-style apartments.
  • (7) Or take a free elevator ride to the roof of the old Sears Roebuck building ( southsideonlamar.com ) which is now loft housing.
  • (8) We are also embarking on the Great British Refurb; by regulating the energy companies we are insulating 6m homes between 2008 and 2012, with every suitable loft and cavity being insulated by 2015.
  • (9) Lofts it into the box and Barthez fumbles, gathers, then releases Henry.
  • (10) In addition, the cleaning of furniture and carpets cost £571.05, new loft insulation cost £546.75, and two claims for a chimney sweep were £43 and £75 respectively.
  • (11) I remember when Ornette moved into Manhattan to a loft on Prince Street in SoHo in the late 60s – he was ahead of the game on that front as well.
  • (12) He could only squirm in the stands as Robbie Keane lofted the clearest chance of the game into the face of Mark Schwarzer, who also foiled Kuyt and Torres.
  • (13) In his forthcoming book on the property market, All That is Solid , Danny Dorling describes how all those extensions and loft conversions means that at least a third of bedrooms in England and Wales – 22m – are "empty on any given night".
  • (14) In Britain, 10m (43%) of all lofts remain unlagged or very poorly lagged, and 8m houses with cavity walls (42%) have yet to be insulated.
  • (15) American, socialist and proud: meet Bernie Sanders's supporters Read more It’s 8pm on a Wednesday and in a Brooklyn loft, a Bernie Sanders screen-printing event is in full swing.
  • (16) He had already come close when, gifted the chance by a weak Julian Speroni punch, he lofted a shot into the unguarded net towards the end of a first 45 minutes that had tended to meander.
  • (17) Inexplicably, instead of rolling or walking the ball into an empty net, Giggs lofted a shot over the bar.
  • (18) He said he was strongly expecting the energy companies not to pass on the cost of the energy efficiency, or lag the loft, programme announced by Gordon Brown last month.
  • (19) Further, radio tracking revealed that the in-flight behavior of the hippocampal lesioned homing pigeons was characterized by numerous direction changes and generally poor orientation with respect to the home loft.
  • (20) All it took was Cesc Fàbregas’s lofted pass, arcing over Taylor, to open them up again.