lose vs loose
Definitions
verb
- withdraw, as from reality
- miss from one's possessions; lose sight of
- allow to go out of sight or mind
- suffer the loss of a person through death or removal
- fail to get or obtain
Examples
When the new foods that came from the Americas - peppers, summer squash and especially tomatoes - took hold in the region, a number of closely related dishes were born, including what we call ratatouille - and a man from La Mancha calls pisto, an Ikarian Greek calls soufiko and a Turk calls turlu.
She tore her eyes from them for a moment to spy the bodhrán player in the tree, tapping out her rhythm with her eyes closed, not noticing the spy amongst them.
It might as well be closed, because in many American hospitals you're simply shooed from the windowsill after you've been nursed back to health (usually in 72 hours or less), and you're expected to "fly" on your own.
Definitions
verb
- grant freedom to; free from confinement
- make loose or looser
- turn loose or free from restraint
- become loose or looser or less tight
adjective
- (of textures) full of small openings or gaps
- (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player
- not carefully arranged in a package
- not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting
- not literal
adverb
- without restraint
Examples
Gone was the prim nodus; instead her long hair was parted in the center and allowed to fall loose under a veil, in a deliberate echo of the statuary poses of classical goddesses.
She was in her sixties and wore her thinning gray hair pulled back in a loose bun with all but a few strands secured by bobby pins.
They establish a colony on Ragol but this perfect planet soon unleashes a few surprises and all hell breaks loose.
