loft vs story

loft and story both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
loft	Yes	No	Yes	No
story	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, story is a hypernym of loft; that is, story is a word with a broader meaning than loft:

loft: floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage
story: a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale

Other hypernyms of loft include floor, level, storey.

As nouns, story is a hypernym of loft; that is, story is a word with a broader meaning than loft:

loft: floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space
story: a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale

Other hypernyms of loft include floor, level, storey.

loft (noun)	story (noun)
floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage	a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
a raised shelter in which pigeons are kept	a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events
floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space	a short account of the news
(golf) the backward slant on the head of some golf clubs that is designed to drive the ball high in the air	a trivial lie
	a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
	a record or narrative description of past events

loft (verb)	story (verb)
lay out a full-scale working drawing of the lines of a vessel's hull
propel through the air
kick or strike high in the air
store in a loft