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UK
/lˈɒs/
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[ US /ˈɫɔs/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɔs/ ]
NOUN
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gradual decline in amount or activity
weight loss
a serious loss of business -
the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
the company operated at a loss last year
the company operated in the red last year -
euphemistic expressions for death
thousands mourned his passing -
the act of losing someone or something
everyone expected him to win so his loss was a shock - military personnel lost by death or capture
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the disadvantage that results from losing something
losing him is no great deprivation
his loss of credibility led to his resignation -
the experience of losing a loved one
he sympathized on the loss of their grandfather -
something that is lost
loss of livestock left the rancher bankrupt
the car was a total loss
How To Use loss In A Sentence
- If you wonder about ‘furphy’, as I did, here's a gloss and explanation.
- ‘Break, break, break,’ for instance, is a bitter poem on unrecompensed, pointless loss, but it achieves its power and makes its point very indirectly, largely through structural implications.
- The lymphatic vessels of the tongue may be divided into four groups: (1) apical, from the tip of the tongue to the suprahyoid glands and principal gland of the tongue; (2) lateral, from the margin of the tonguesome of these pierce the Mylohyoideus to end in the submaxillary glands, others pass down on the Hyoglossus to the superior deep cervical glands; (3) basal, from the region of the vallate papillæ to the superior deep cervical glands; and (4) median, a few of which perforate the Mylohyoideus to reach the submaxillary glands, while the majority turn around the posterior border of the muscle to enter the superior deep cervical glands. VIII. The Lymphatic System. 3. The Lymphatics of the Head, Face, and Neck
- She pulled the black scrunchie out of her long glossy red-gold hair, the silky strands having been confined in a simple low, sleek ponytail.
- Hundreds of the aircraft are on order, but loss of the Northwest batch is a serious setback.
- The relevant principle is that if a member causes loss to the council he/she is liable to make good that loss if he/she has misconducted him/herself knowing that loss may result.
- This was the reality glossed over in television fiction; indignity, suspicion, denial of the decencies. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
- Penguin used to do these great science fiction paperback editions, and they had one series with really evocative paintings — glossy, garish, almost hyperrealist — on the covers. Ballardian » The 032c Interview: Simon Reynolds on Ballard, part 2
- Now St. Paul had seen the gift conferred at Ephesus and St. Luke does not distinguish Ephesian glossolaly from that of Jerusalem. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
- American bittersweet is valued for its glossy green summer foliage followed by orange and red fruits and seeds, and several landscape cultivars are commercially marketed.
