loss
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English los, from Old English los (“damage, destruction, loss”), from Proto-Germanic *lusą (“dissolution, break-up, loss”), from Proto-Indo-European *lews- (“to cut, sunder, separate, loose, lose”). Cognate with Icelandic los (“dissolution, looseness, break-up”), Old English lor, forlor (“loss, ruin”), Middle High German verlor (“loss, ruin”). More at lose.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /lɒs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /lɔs/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /lɑs/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒs, -ɔːs
Noun[edit]
loss (countable and uncountable, plural losses)
- (countable) The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.
- Antonym: gain
- loss of limb; weight loss; loss of cognitive functions; loss of appetite.
- In other areas, glacier loss creates serious risk of a dry period across the Third Pole, Wang said.
- (uncountable) The destruction or ruin of an object.
- (countable) Something that has been destroyed or ruined.
- It was a terrible crash; both cars were total losses.
- (countable) Defeat; an instance of being defeated.
- (countable) The death of a person or animal.
- We mourn his loss.
- The battle was won, but losses were great.
- (uncountable) The condition of grief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who has died.
- Her daughter's sense of loss eventually led to depression.
- (financial, countable) The sum an entity loses on balance.
- Antonym: profit
- The sum of expenditures and taxes minus total income is a loss, when this difference is positive.
- (engineering) Electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work.
- The inefficiency of many old-fashioned power plants exceeds 60% loss before the subsequent losses during transport over the grid.
Usage notes[edit]
- The possessive of loss is often constructed as loss of rather than 's loss.
- loss is often the subject of the verbs make or take. See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take
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Etymology 2[edit]
Pronunciation spelling of lost, representing African-American Vernacular English.
Verb[edit]
loss
- (colloquial) Alternative spelling of lost
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Estonian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
loss (genitive lossi, partitive lossi)
Declension[edit]
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Verb[edit]
loss
- imperative of losse
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Like Danish los and Norwegian loss, from Low German or Dutch los, from Middle Low German respectively Middle Dutch los, sidoform of Low German lōs respectively Dutch loos, cognate with Swedish lös.
Adjective[edit]
loss
- (indeclinable, predicatively, adverbially) loose, untied, off
- den kom loss
- it came off
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