🏠 An upper room 🏐 To hit high 🕊️ A bird shelter ⛳ Club face angle 📦 To store upstairs 📏 To draw plans

to loft

9.9

To draw the full-size shape of a boat hull on the workshop floor

verb
/lɔft/

Specialized

: trazar a tamaño real

Before starting the project, she decided to loft the designs of the vessel in detail.

Examples

These bins can be stored under your newly lofted bed, in your closet, or in your bathroom if you live in a suite.

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The shipbuilder used precise measurements to loft the hull lines accurately before construction began.
To ensure the plans were perfect, he had to loft them carefully on the drafting board.

Compounds

choir loft

1 5.1

A raised area in a church where singers sit during services

artist's loft

1 5.5

A large open space in a converted warehouse where a person who makes art lives and works

loft bombing

NSFW

9.9

A way of dropping bombs by flying low then pulling the plane up before release to escape the blast

organ loft

7.8

A raised platform at the back of a church where the organist plays

pigeon loft

6.5

A small building where people raise and keep pigeons

How Detailed

to loft

Specialized

9.9

to draw

939 1.0

draft

Specialized

245 3.7

sketch

150 2.5

Surface Forms

loft infinitive

lofted past

lofted past participle

lofting present participle

lofts third person singular

Etymology

Loft in shipbuilding comes from the idea of a 'loft' as an upper room or workshop where builders drew full-size hull lines on the floor. So to loft a hull means to lay out those large plans, which is why shipwrights still use the term for making full-scale drawings.