Aloft vs. Loft — What's the Difference?

In or into a high place; high or higher up

A loft is a building's upper storey or elevated area in a room directly under the roof (American usage), or just an attic: a storage space under the roof usually accessed by a ladder (primarily British usage). A loft apartment refers to large adaptable open space, often converted for residential use (a converted loft) from some other use, often light industrial.

Up in or into the air

A large, usually unpartitioned floor over a factory, warehouse, or other commercial or industrial space.

(Nautical) At or toward the upper rigging.

Such a floor converted into an apartment or artist's studio.

On or above

A partial floor occupying part of the space below the ceiling of a larger, high-ceilinged room.

At, to, or in the air or sky.

A garret.

Above, overhead, in a high place; up.

A gallery or balcony, as in a church.

(nautical) In the top, at the masthead, or on the higher yards or rigging.

A hayloft.

On high; in the air; high above the ground.

The backward slant of the face of a golf club head, designed to drive the ball up off the ground.

In the top; at the mast head, or on the higher yards or rigging; overhead; hence (Fig. and Colloq.), in or to heaven.

A golf stroke that drives the ball in a high arc.

Above; on top of.

The upward course of a ball driven in a high arc.

At or on or to the masthead or upper rigging of a ship;

The thickness of a fabric or yarn.

Upward;

The thickness of an item, such as a down comforter, that is filled with compressible insulating material.

At or to great height; high up in or into the air;

To put, store, or keep in a loft.

In the higher atmosphere above the earth;

To propel in a high arc

(Nautical) To lay out a full-size drawing of (the parts of a ship's hull, for example).

To propel something, especially a ball, in a high arc.

To rise high into the air.

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.

(golf) The pitch or slope of the face of a golf club (tending to drive the ball upward).

(obsolete) A floor or room placed above another.

(transitive) To propel high into the air.

(intransitive) To fly or travel through the air, as though propelled

(bowling) To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.

(transitive) To furnish with a loft space.

(transitive) To raise (a bed) on tall supports so that the space beneath can be used for something else.

Lofty; proud; haughty

That which is lifted up; an elevation.

Pitch or slope of the face of a club (tending to drive the ball upward).

Lofty; proud.

To make or furnish with a loft; to cause to have loft; as, a lofted house; a lofted golf-club head.

To raise aloft; to send into the air;

Floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space

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

A raised shelter in which pigeons are kept

Store in a loft

Propel through the air;

Kick or strike high in the air;

Lay out a full-scale working drawing of the lines of a vessel's hull