Aloft

Definitions: Aloft

Aloft

Adverb

1. At or on or to the masthead or upper rigging of a ship; "climbed aloft to unfurl the sail".

2. Upward; "the good news sent her spirits aloft".

3. At or to great height; high up in or into the air; "eagles were soaring aloft"; "dust is whirled aloft".

4. In the higher atmosphere above the earth; "weather conditions aloft are fine".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "aloft" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Ascent

Go aloft, fly aloft; tower, soar, take off; spring up, pop up, jump up, catapult upwards, explode upwards; hover, spire, plane, swim, float, surge; leap.

Height

Adverb: on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead; airwind; upstairs, abovestairs; in the clouds; on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of; over head and ears; breast high.

Crosswords: Aloft

The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering silmite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.)

Away Aloft (1898)

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Books

• A Life Aloft : From DC-3 to 747 (reference)

• Colors Aloft! (reference)

• Colours Aloft (Richard Bolitho Novels/Alexander Kent No 16) (reference)

• Elephants Aloft (reference)

• Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth Century America (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Going Aloft (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Aloft (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Lookouts aloft on schooner on the watch for mackerel Drawing by H. W. Elliott and Capt. J. W. Collins.Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

TIROS-N lifts off carried aloft by an Atlas launch vehicle.Credit: NOAA in Space.

Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 10 July 1942. Note barrage balloons aloft in the distance.Credit: NAVY.

Seaman Claxton working aloft, atop the ship's foremast, circa 1914.Credit: NAVY.

At Hong Kong, 15 April 1898, shortly before the beginning of the Spanish-American War. Note crewmen aloft watching the rowing launches racing past in the foreground, also shipping and Chinese junks in the distance.Credit: NAVY.

U.S.S. Oregon, forecastle from aloft.Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S.S. Kentucky, from aloft.Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S.S. Richmond, "stand by to lay aloft".Credit: Library of Congress.

Looking aloft to the upper deck of the Hudson River ferry. New York.Credit: Library of Congress.

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His judgment, almost detached from hope, soared and floated aloft.

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Expressions using "aloft": go aloft ♦ wind aloft. Additional references.

Beginning with "aloft": aloft-'means.

Albanian

sipër (above, over, overhead, supra, topside, up, upstair, upstairs), lart (above, high, overhead, up, upstairs, upward, upwards). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فوق ظهر السفينة, ‏مرتفعا (loud), ‏عاليا (high, loudly, on top of, up), ‏بين أشرعة الصواري. (various references)

Bulgarian 

горе (above, overhead, supra, up, upstairs), високо (aloud, high, highly, loftily, loud, loudly, out, sharp), нагоре (above, up, uphill, upstairs), нависоко (high), на мачтата, по въжетата, по време на полета. (various references)

Chinese 

在高處 . (various references)

Czech

vzhùru (astir, up, upward, upwards), vysoko (high), nahoře (above, on high, overhead, up, upstairs, upward, upwards). (various references)

Danish

til tops. (various references)

Dutch

boven (above, more than, on top, over, overhead, upstairs). (various references)

Farsi 

درفوق , درهوا, درنوک , دربالای زمین , دربالاترین نقطه ء کشتی , بالا (Ascendency, Atop, Overhead, Up, Upside). (various references)

Finnish

ylhäällä mastossa. (various references)

French

en haut. (various references)

German

in der Höhe, hoch droben, empor (above, up, uphill, upward, upwards), über Deck. (various references)

Greek 

επάνω (about, on, up, upstairs). (various references)

Hebrew 

ממעל (above, overhead, upon, upward, upwards), מעל�" (ascent, lifting, raising, rise, slope, up, upward), למעל�" (above, before, beyond, on top, supra, up, up ward, upward, upwards), אל על (ad astra, up, upward, upwards). (various references)

Hungarian

fent a magasban, fenn (up), árbocon, felfelé (up, up the line, upwards). (various references)

Indonesian

tinggi (height, lofty, tall), di atas (above, on, upon). (various references)

Italian

in alto (high, overhead, up, upstairs, upward). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

振り振る (to brandish, to hold aloft), 振りかぶる (to brandish, to hold aloft), 上層風 (winds aloft). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふりかぶる (to brandish, to hold aloft), じょうそうふう (winds aloft). (various references)

Manx

'syn yrdjey, 'syn aer, 'sy speyr (overhead, sky-high, skywards), heose (above), erskyn (above, additionally, over, ultra), er-lout. (various references)

Pig Latin

aloftay

Portuguese

em cima (above, atop, on the top, overhead, thereon, up, upon, upstairs). (various references)

Romanian

sus (above, atop, over, overhead, up), în sus (on high, up, uphill, upward, upwards). (various references)

Russian 

наверху (above, atop, atop of, on top, overhead, up, upstairs). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

visoko (highly, high-up), gore (above, atop, overhead, supra, up, upstairs, worse). (various references)

Spanish

arriba (above, forward, halt, on top, over, overhead, up, up along, upstair, upstairs). (various references)

Swedish

högt upp. (various references)

Turkish

yukarıya (overhead, up, uphill, upward, upwards), yukarıda (above, afore, hereinabove, overhead, supra, upstairs), yükseklerde, havaya, havada (aflight, afloat, in the air, overhead), gemi direğinde. (various references)

Ukranian 

угорі, вгору (above, uphill, upstairs), нагору (above, over), над (above, atop, beyond, o'er, on, over), на височині, на небі, на небесах, понад (above, beyond, o'er, over, past). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chết (defunct, exanimate, mortal), cao (high, high-pitched, lofty, superior, towering, upper). (various references)

Welsh

yn uchel (aloud), i fyny (up, upwards), fry (above). (various references)

sublime. (various references)

Misspellings

"Aloft" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aboff, Ailort, alift, allof, alloff, alof, alofe, aloff, alofts, alot, alota, alott, Alotta, alout, Alsoft, altofts, aluet, anof, arlot, Aroff, aylot, halfofa, samloff. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: float, flota.

-1 letter: alto, flat, foal, loaf, loft, lota, tola.

-2 letters: aft, alt, fat, lat, lot, oaf, oat, oft, tao.

-3 letters: al, at, fa, la, lo, of, ta, to.

+1 letter: afloat, floats, floaty, flotas, foetal, folate, fontal.

+2 letters: batfowl, boatful, fallout, flattop, floated, floatel, floater, flokati, flotage, flotsam, flyboat, folates, foliate, foxtail, frontal, hayloft, outfall, refloat.

+3 letters: batfowls, blastoff, boastful, boatfuls, conflate, deflator, falconet, fallouts, falsetto, faltboat, fellatio, fellator, flameout, flatboat, flatfoot, flatiron, flatlong, flattops, flatwork, flatworm, fleawort, floatage, floatels, floaters, floatier, floating, flokatis, flotages, flotilla, flotsams, flyboats, foldboat, foliated, foliates, folktale, fontanel, football, footfall, footwall, forestal, foxtails, frontals, gatefold, halftone, haylofts, holdfast, inflator, lifeboat, loathful, meatloaf, nonfatal, outfable, outfalls, outflank, pantofle, platform, refloats, softball, toadflax, trifocal.

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