different between loss vs price

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)

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

English

Alternative forms

• prize (obsolete) [16th–19th c.]

Etymology

From Middle English price (“price, prize, value, excellence”), borrowed from Old French pris, preis, from Latin pretium (“worth, price, money spent, wages, reward”); compare praise, precious, appraise, appreciate, depreciate, etc.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?s
• (UK, US): enPR: pr?s, IPA^(key): /p?a?s/
• (Canadian raising): IPA^(key): /p???s/

Noun

price (plural prices)

1. The cost required to gain possession of something.
2. The cost of an action or deed.

3. Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Proverbs xxxi. 10

     Her price is far above rubies.

   • new treasures still, of countless price

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Irish: praghas

Translations

Verb

price (third-person singular simple present prices, present participle pricing, simple past and past participle priced)

1. (transitive) To determine the monetary value of (an item); to put a price on.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To pay the price of; to make reparation for.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:

     Thou damned wight, / The author of this fact, we here behold, / What iustice can but iudge against thee right, / With thine owne bloud to price his bloud, here shed in sight.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
4. (transitive, colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.

   to price eggs

Derived terms

• budget-priced

Translations

Further reading

• price in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• price in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Cripe, recip.

Latin

Noun

price

1. ablative singular of prex