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loss
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English los, from Old English los (“damage, destruction, loss”), from Proto-Germanic *lus? (“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
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /l?s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /l?s/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /l?s/
- Rhymes: -?s, -??s
Noun
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
- (uncountable) The destruction or ruin of an object.
- (countable) Something that has been destroyed or ruined.
- (countable) Defeat; an instance of being defeated.
- Antonyms: win, victory
- (countable) The death of a person or animal.
- (uncountable) The condition of grief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who has died.
- (financial, countable) The sum an entity loses on balance.
- Antonym: profit
- (engineering) Electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work.
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
Related terms
- lose
Translations
Etymology 2
Pronunciation spelling of lost, representing African-American Vernacular English.
Verb
loss
- (colloquial) Alternative spelling of lost
Anagrams
- SOLs, Sols, sols
Estonian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Schloss.
Noun
loss (genitive lossi, partitive lossi)
- castle
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
loss
- imperative of losse
Swedish
Etymology
Like Danish los and Norwegian loss, from Low German or Dutch los, from Middle Low German respectively Middle Dutch los, sidoform of Low German l?s respectively Dutch loos, cognate with Swedish lös.
Adjective
loss
- (indeclinable, predicatively, adverbially) loose, untied, off
Anagrams
- sols
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soss
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?s/
Etymology 1
From Middle English sosse, sos, soos (“hounds' meat; a mess of food”), of uncertain origin. See sesspool.
Alternative forms
- suss
Noun
soss (plural sosses)
- (Britain, dialect) Anything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle.
Verb
soss (third-person singular simple present sosses, present participle sossing, simple past and past participle sossed)
- (Britain, dialect) To soil; to make dirty.
Etymology 2
Compare souse.
Verb
soss (third-person singular simple present sosses, present participle sossing, simple past and past participle sossed)
- To fall suddenly into a chair or seat; to sit lazily.
- 1723, Jonathan Swift, Stella at Wood Park
- sossing in an easy chair
- 1723, Jonathan Swift, Stella at Wood Park
- To throw in a negligent or careless manner; to toss.
- May 24 1711, Jonathan Swift, Journal to Stella – Letter 24
- the coach sosses up and down as one goes that way
- May 24 1711, Jonathan Swift, Journal to Stella – Letter 24
Noun
soss (plural sosses)
- (obsolete) A lazy fellow.
- A heavy fall.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Anagrams
- OSS's, OSSs, SSOs
Luxembourgish
Etymology
From Old High German sus. Cognate with German sonst.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zos/
- Rhymes: -os
Adverb
soss
- otherwise
- usually
- elsewhere
Conjunction
soss
- otherwise, or else
- Du muss dech fläissen, soss verpass du den Zuch.
- You must hurry up, or else you will miss the train.
- Du muss dech fläissen, soss verpass du den Zuch.
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