loss
English
Etymology 1
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#LOSSCategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewh₁-#LOSSFrom Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#LOSSCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#LOSS los, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#LOSSCategory:English terms derived from Old English#LOSS los (“damage, destruction, loss”), from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#LOSSCategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#LOSS *los, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#LOSSCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#LOSS *lusą (“dissolution, break-up, loss”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#LOSS *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
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /lɒs/Category:English 1-syllable words#LOSSCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#LOSS
- (General American) IPA(key): /lɔs/Category:English 1-syllable words#LOSSCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#LOSS
- Rhymes: -ɒs, -ɔːsCategory:Rhymes:English/ɒs#LOSSCategory:Rhymes:English/ɒs/1 syllable#LOSSCategory:Rhymes:English/ɔːs#LOSSCategory:Rhymes:English/ɔːs/1 syllable#LOSS
Noun
loss (countable and uncountable, plural losses)Category:English lemmas#LOSSCategory:English nouns#LOSSCategory:English uncountable nouns#LOSSCategory:English countable nouns#LOSSCategory:English countable nouns#LOSSCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#LOSSCategory:Pages with entries#LOSSCategory:Pages with 4 entries#LOSS
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#LOSS) The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.
- Synonym: expense
- Antonym: gain
- loss of limb; weight loss; loss of cognitive functions; loss of appetite.Category:English terms with usage examples#LOSS
- People are less willing to take a risk to make a gain than to to avoid a loss.Category:English terms with usage examples#LOSS
- In other areas, glacier loss creates serious risk of a dry period across the Third Pole, Wang said. Category:English terms with usage examples#LOSS
- (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#LOSS) The destruction or ruin of an object.
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#LOSS) Something that has been destroyed or ruined.
- It was a terrible crash; both cars were total losses.Category:English terms with usage examples#LOSS
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#LOSS) Defeat; an instance of being defeated.
- Antonyms: win, victory
- The match ended in their first loss of the season.Category:English terms with usage examples#LOSS
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#LOSS) The death of a person or animal.
- We mourn his loss.Category:English terms with usage examples#LOSS
- The battle was won, but losses were great.Category:English terms with usage examples#LOSS
- (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#LOSS) 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#LOSS
- (financial, countableCategory:English countable nouns#LOSS) 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#LOSS
- (engineeringCategory:en:Engineering#LOSS) 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#LOSS
Usage notes
- 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
Derived terms
- at a loss
- at a loss for words
- blood loss, bloodloss
- bone loss
- capital loss
- core loss
- dead loss
- deadweight loss
- drip loss
- ego loss
- for a loss
- for the loss
- generation loss
- habitat loss
- hair loss
- head loss
- headloss
- hearing loss
- hull loss
- instant loss
- instant loss 2koma
- lossage
- loss and damage
- loss and gain are brothers twain
- loss condition
- lossful
- loss function
- loss leader
- lossless
- lossmaker, loss-maker
- loss-making
- loss of consortium
- loss of face
- loss of life
- loss of supply
- loss prevention
- lossproof
- loss ratio
- lossy
- net loss
- net operating loss
- one man's loss is another man's gain
- operating loss
- packet loss
- path loss
- pregnancy loss
- profit and loss
- profit and loss statement
- sightloss
- stop-loss
- stop loss
- stop-loss order
- stop loss order
- tackle for loss
- total loss
- vision loss
- wake loss
- weight loss
- without loss of generality
Related terms
Translations
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Etymology 2
Pronunciation spelling of lostCategory:English pronunciation spellings#LOSS, representing African-American VernacularCategory:African-American Vernacular English#LOSS English.
Verb
lossCategory:English non-lemma forms#LOSSCategory:English verb forms#LOSSCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#LOSSCategory:Pages with entries#LOSSCategory:Pages with 4 entries#LOSS
- (colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#LOSS) Alternative spelling of lost.
Anagrams
Category:English calculator words#LOSSEstonian
Etymology
Borrowed from GermanCategory:Estonian terms borrowed from German#LOSSCategory:Estonian terms derived from German#LOSS Schloss, from Middle High GermanCategory:Estonian terms derived from Middle High German#LOSS slōz, from Old High GermanCategory:Estonian terms derived from Old High German#LOSS sloz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlosʲː/, [ˈlosʲː]Category:Estonian terms with IPA pronunciation#LOSS
- Hyphenation: loss
Noun
loss (genitive lossi, partitive lossi)Category:Estonian lemmas#LOSSCategory:Estonian nouns#LOSSCategory:Estonian entries with incorrect language header#LOSSCategory:Pages with entries#LOSSCategory:Pages with 4 entries#LOSS
Declension
| Declension of loss (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation) | |||
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| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | loss | lossid | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | lossi | ||
| genitive | losside | ||
| partitive | lossi | losse lossisid | |
| illative | lossi lossisse |
lossidesse lossesse | |
| inessive | lossis | lossides losses | |
| elative | lossist | lossidest lossest | |
| allative | lossile | lossidele lossele | |
| adessive | lossil | lossidel lossel | |
| ablative | lossilt | lossidelt losselt | |
| translative | lossiks | lossideks losseks | |
| terminative | lossini | lossideni | |
| essive | lossina | lossidena | |
| abessive | lossita | lossideta | |
| comitative | lossiga | lossidega | |
Further reading
- “loss”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
- “loss”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “loss”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
- loss in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
lossCategory:Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms#LOSSCategory:Norwegian Bokmål verb forms#LOSSCategory:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#LOSSCategory:Pages with entries#LOSSCategory:Pages with 4 entries#LOSS
- imperative of losse
Swedish
Etymology
From Low GermanCategory:Swedish terms borrowed from Low German#LOSSCategory:Swedish terms derived from Low German#LOSS los (“free, loose”), from Middle Low GermanCategory:Swedish terms derived from Middle Low German#LOSS lōs, from Old SaxonCategory:Swedish terms derived from Old Saxon#LOSS lōs, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:Swedish terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#LOSS *laus.
See also Danish los and Norwegian loss, Dutch loos. Doublet of lösCategory:Swedish doublets#LOSS.
Adverb
lossCategory:Swedish lemmas#LOSSCategory:Swedish adverbs#LOSSCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#LOSSCategory:Pages with entries#LOSSCategory:Pages with 4 entries#LOSS (not comparable)
- to a no longer attached or stuck state (no longer stuck to something, generally); loose, off, untied
- Han drog i den, och till slut kom den loss
- He pulled on it, and finally it came loose
- Han sparkade loss grenen
- He kicked the branch off
- Jag är fast i kvicksand och kommer inte loss
- I'm stuck in quicksand and can't get out (get unstuck)
- De knöt loss båten
- They untied the boat (from the pier)
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- “loss”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
- “loss”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- “loss”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
