What's the difference between loft and lofty?

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.

Lofty


Definition:

  • (superl.) Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high.
  • (superl.) Fig.: Elevated in character, rank, dignity, spirit, bearing, language, etc.; exalted; noble; stately; characterized by pride; haughty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An Israeli commentator said of the first of them: "when one looks through all the lofty phraseology, all the deliberate disinformation, the hundreds of pettifogging sections, sub-sections, appendices and protocols, one clearly recognises that the Israeli victory was absolute and Palestine defeat abject."
  • (2) They orginally had lofty ambitions of talking about the economy but since they have lost that argument so catastrophically, they have reached for the Ukip playbook to create fictitious stories to scare people about immigrants and release video nasties about Turkish people”.
  • (3) "The BBC's bosses dropped the lofty Oxbridge langour that had been their trademark to set off in hot pursuit of our children," he said.
  • (4) Progressive politicians should be very careful not to be lofty and metropolitan about this, it's a totally understandable reflex."
  • (5) David Zaslav, chief executive of the US cable giant, kept his cards close to his chest on the Channel 5 sale process, where Discovery is considered to be a frontrunner among buyers offering much less than Desmond's lofty £700m-plus target.
  • (6) In Albini’s view, these plans may prove lofty but misdirected.
  • (7) His church is looked down upon by a lofty bronze of Jefferson Davis, last president of the confederacy, white supremacist and owner of 100 slaves.
  • (8) Podemos' lofty list of election promises includes doing away with tax havens, establishing a guaranteed minimum income and lowering the retirement age to 60.
  • (9) According to Shannon Loftis, general manager of Microsoft Studios, the idea of producing one game disc that will service a range of platform capabilities is familiar to dev teams.
  • (10) By his own lofty standards Cavendish's return of two stage wins from this year's Tour has been paltry and myriad signs of hitherto unseen fallibility, a team that is clearly not good enough to work in his service and suggestions that his star is on the wane will leave him with much to ponder.
  • (11) It is the most homespun of arrangements for a team with such lofty ambitions, but somehow it will be a fitting send-off in a city that has embraced the idea from the start, with Major Buddy Dyer being one of their most fervent supporters, and some 20,000 showing up for the championship game against Charlotte last September .
  • (12) Caruso St John, which previously renovated London's Tate Britain and the Gagosian Paris, plans to convert the old theatre production warehouses into a series of lofty rooms.
  • (13) The game’s been inspired by head-cam footage of drivers and athletes uploaded to YouTube and offers the rather lofty promise of allowing players to “go anywhere and make any experience that they want”.
  • (14) To me this is … ” Once again Johnson feels the need to apologise for something lofty he is about to say.
  • (15) In a world where public figures are lofty and removed from ordinary people, she looks accessible, approachable and touchable.
  • (16) In fact, wet deposition has long been hailed as a possible solution by higher powers, with their lofty pretensions to control the elements.
  • (17) But beyond these very lofty ideals, a staff nurse managed financial management committee can make the nurse manager's life much easier.
  • (18) Many social events leave me with a crick in the neck from gazing up at the ceiling to talk to lofty friends.
  • (19) However, geopolitical, socioeconomical, and medical factors contributed to an increased TB incidence altering this lofty hope.
  • (20) Many of its institutions entered the new millennium accused of social elitism and lofty irrelevance.