loss

Значение (English)

Noun

1. The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.
2. The destruction or ruin of an object.
3. Something that has been destroyed or ruined.
4. Defeat; an instance of being defeated.
5. The death of a person or animal.
6. The condition of grief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who has died.
7. The sum an entity loses on balance.
8. Electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work.

Verb

Alternative spelling of lost

Synonyms

damage

destruction

waste

harm

injury

ruin

defeat

detriment

failure

deprivation

losing

disadvantage

impairment

deficit

negative profit

decay

flaw

hurt

disappearance

decrease

defect

wastage

bad

👎

bereavement

decline

imperfection

forfeit

damages

red

red ink

sacrifice

fall

casualty

lose

decrement

fine

release

expiration

exit

bad debt

departure

attenuation

losses

perishing

perdition

fee commission

lose money

passing

overthrow

discomfiture

doom

deficiency

personnel casualty

drop

going

forfeiture

set back

shipwreck

shortage

shortcoming

shutout

slums

squeeze

straying

toll

tort

transmission loss

upset

waterloo

wreck

write-off

complete defeat

out of pocket

diseconomy

be extinct

losing in business

losing one’s capital

being deprived

great fall

act of losing

to the bad

abandoning

make a loss

abatement

absence

abstraction

annihilation

bankruptcy

calamity

case

cessation

collapse

dearth

debt

degradation

depleted

depletion

deterioration

devastation

diminution

disappear

disappearing

disservice

dissolution

downfall

drawback

dullness

ebb

evil

exhaustion

exhausts

expenditure

fail

falling down

flop

ill-luck

in the red

keep

laws

leaving

licking

loess

look after

lost

mischief

misfortune

mislay

miss

non-existence

omission

perish

pest

precipitation

prejudice

preserve

recession

reduction

save

Произносится как (IPA)

/lɒs/

Этимология (English)

Inherited from среднеанглийский: los

Inherited from староанглийский: los

Cognate with исландский: los

Cognate with староанглийский: lor

Cognate with средневерхненемецкий: verlor

In summary

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.