LOFTING meaning: Creating curves from flat patterns

We found 18 dictionaries that define the word LOFTING:

General (13 matching dictionaries)

lofting: Merriam-Webster
lofting: Collins English Dictionary
lofting: Vocabulary.com
Lofting, lofting: Wordnik
lofting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
lofting: Wiktionary
Lofting: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
Lofting: Infoplease Dictionary
Lofting, lofting: Dictionary.com
lofting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Lofting (bowling), Lofting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
lofting: FreeDictionary.org
lofting: TheFreeDictionary.com

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lofting: Encyclopedia

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lofting: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Lofting)

▸ noun:  (mining) Lagging or longitudinal timber resting on caps to support the roof of a working.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) A drafting technique whereby curved lines are generated to be used in plans for streamlined objects such as aircraft and boats.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) An upper part; ceiling.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:

garret, attic, pigeon loft, barring, lacing, ligger, lathing, putlog, nogging, lumbering, more...

Opposite:

lowering, descending, bringing down

Types:

beagling, coursing, falconry, ferreting, fox hunting, hunting, stag hunting, whaling, more...

Phrases:

Hugh Lofting, lofting hugh, lofting iron, more...

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