Loft vs. Apartment — What's the Difference?

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.

An apartment (American English), or flat (British English, Indian English, South African English), is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a building, generally on a single story. There are many names for these overall buildings, see below.

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

A flat, typically one that is well appointed or used for holidays

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

A room or suite of rooms designed as a residence and generally located in a building occupied by more than one household.

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

An apartment building

A garret.

A room.

A gallery or balcony, as in a church.

Apartments Chiefly British A suite of rooms within a larger building set aside for a particular purpose or person.

A hayloft.

A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.

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

(archaic) A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.

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

(obsolete) A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment

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

A conceptual space used for separation in the threading architecture. Objects in one apartment cannot directly access those in another, but must use a proxy.

The thickness of a fabric or yarn.

A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions.

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

A set or suite of rooms.

To put, store, or keep in a loft.

A compartment.

To propel in a high arc

A room or suite of rooms in a building comprising a dwelling unit separate from others in the building, and typically having its own separate bath, sanitary, and kitchen facilities. Such apartments are in most cases rented from the owner by those dwelling in them.

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

A suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house

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