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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
loss From the web:
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disadvantage
English
Alternative forms
- disadvauntage (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English disavauntage, from Old French desavantage.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: d?s'?d-vän't?j, IPA(key): /?d?s?d?v??nt?d?/
- (General American) enPR: d?s'?d-v?n't?j, IPA(key): /?d?s?d?vænt?d?/
Noun
disadvantage (plural disadvantages)
- A weakness or undesirable characteristic; a con.
- A setback or handicap.
- My height is a disadvantage for reaching high shelves.
- 1774, Edmund Burke, speech to the electors of Bristol
- I was brought hither under the disadvantage of being unknown, even by sight, to any of you.
- 1859-1890, John G. Palfrey, History of New England to the Revolutionary War
- Abandoned by their great patron, the faction henceforward acted at disadvantage.
- Loss; detriment; hindrance.
- 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
- They would throw a construction on his conduct, to his disadvantage before the public.
- 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
Synonyms
- (an undesirable characteristic): afterdeal, con, drawback, malefit, downside
- (a handicap): afterdeal, weakness
Antonyms
- advantage
Translations
Verb
disadvantage (third-person singular simple present disadvantages, present participle disadvantaging, simple past and past participle disadvantaged)
- (transitive) To place at a disadvantage.
- They fear it might disadvantage honest participants to allow automated entries.
- 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, "London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
- For London to have its own exclusive immigration policy would exacerbate the sense that immigration benefits only certain groups and disadvantages the rest. It would entrench the gap between London and the rest of the nation. And it would widen the breach between the public and the elite that has helped fuel anti-immigrant hostility.
Synonyms
- tell against
Derived terms
- disadvantageous
- disadvantageously
- disadvantageousness
disadvantage From the web:
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- what disadvantage is angela experiencing by telecommuting
- what disadvantages did the union have
- what disadvantages did the confederacy have
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