loss
(noun) the act of losing someone or something; “everyone expected him to win so his loss was a shock”
loss, deprivation
(noun) the disadvantage that results from losing something; “his loss of credibility led to his resignation”; “losing him is no great deprivation”
loss
(noun) the experience of losing a loved one; “he sympathized on the loss of their grandfather”
passing, loss, departure, exit, expiration, going, release
(noun) euphemistic expressions for death; “thousands mourned his passing”
loss, red ink, red
(noun) 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”
loss
(noun) something that is lost; “the car was a total loss”; “loss of livestock left the rancher bankrupt”
loss
(noun) gradual decline in amount or activity; “weight loss”; “a serious loss of business”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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.
• 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 Collocations of do, have, make, and take
loss
(colloquial) Alternative spelling of lost
• SOLs, Sols, sols
Source: Wiktionary
Loss, n. Etym: [AS. los loss, losing, fr. leĂłsan to lose. Lose, v. t.]
1. The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation. Assured loss before the match be played. Shak.
2. The state of losing or having lost; the privation, defect, misfortune, harm, etc., which ensues from losing. Though thou repent, yet I have still the loss. Shak
3. That which is lost or from which one has parted; waste; -- opposed to gain or increase; as, the loss of liquor by leakage was considerable.
4. The state of being lost or destroyed; especially, the wreck or foundering of a ship or other vessel.
5. Failure to gain or win; as, loss of a race or battle.
6. Failure to use advantageously; as, loss of time.
7. (Mil.)
Definition: Killed, wounded, and captured persons, or captured property.
8. (Insurance)
Definition: Destruction or diminution of value, if brought about in a manner provided for in the insurance contract (as destruction by fire or wreck, damage by water or smoke), or the death or injury of an insured person; also, the sum paid or payable therefor; as, the losses of the company this year amount to a million of dollars. To bear a loss, to make a loss good; also, to sustain a loss without sinking under it.
– To be at a loss, to be in a state of uncertainty.
Syn.
– Privation; detriment; injury; damage.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
