different between gains vs loss

gains

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?e?nz/

Noun

gains

  1. plural of gain
  2. (bodybuilding) Increase in muscle mass.

Verb

gains

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gain

Anagrams

  • Agins, Nagis, Siang, ginas, ingas, signa

French

Noun

gains m

  1. plural of gain

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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/
  • (cotcaught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /l?s/
  • Rhymes: -?s, -??s

Noun

loss (countable and uncountable, plural losses)

  1. (countable) The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.
    Antonym: gain
  2. (uncountable) The destruction or ruin of an object.
  3. (countable) Something that has been destroyed or ruined.
  4. (countable) Defeat; an instance of being defeated.
    Antonyms: win, victory
  5. (countable) The death of a person or animal.
  6. (uncountable) The condition of grief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who has died.
  7. (financial, countable) The sum an entity loses on balance.
    Antonym: profit
  8. (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

  1. (colloquial) Alternative spelling of lost

Anagrams

  • SOLs, Sols, sols

Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Schloss.

Noun

loss (genitive lossi, partitive lossi)

  1. castle

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.


Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

loss

  1. 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

  1. (indeclinable, predicatively, adverbially) loose, untied, off

Anagrams

  • sols

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