looseness
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loose
(lo͞os)adj. loos·er, loos·est
1. Not fastened, restrained, or contained: loose bricks.
2. Not taut, fixed, or rigid: a loose anchor line; a loose chair leg.
3. Free from confinement or imprisonment; unfettered: criminals loose in the neighborhood; dogs that are loose on the streets.
4. Not tight-fitting or tightly fitted: loose shoes.
5. Not bound, bundled, stapled, or gathered together: loose papers.
6. Not compact or dense in arrangement or structure: loose gravel.
7. Lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; idle: loose talk.
8. Not formal; relaxed: a loose atmosphere at the club.
9. Lacking conventional moral restraint in sexual behavior.
10. Not literal or exact: a loose translation.
11. Characterized by a free movement of fluids in the body: a loose cough; loose bowels.
adv.
In a loose manner.
tr.v. loosed, loos·ing, loos·es
Idiom: 1. To let loose; release: loosed the dogs.
2. To make loose; undo: loosed his belt.
3. To cast loose; detach: hikers loosing their packs at camp.
4. To let fly; discharge: loosed an arrow.
5. To release pressure or obligation from; absolve: loosed her from the responsibility.
6. To make less strict; relax: a leader's strong authority that was loosed by easy times.
on the loose
1. At large; free.
2. Acting in an uninhibited fashion.
loose′ly adv.
loose′ness n.
Synonyms: loose, lax, slack1
These adjectives mean not tautly bound, held, or fastened: loose reins; a lax rope; slack sails.
These adjectives mean not tautly bound, held, or fastened: loose reins; a lax rope; slack sails.
Antonym: tight
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Looseness
- (Muscle) lax as a broken shade —Diane Ackerman
- (Face) lax as a wax work —Daniel Berrigan
- (The gear worked) loose as a hound’s shoulder —Elizabeth Spencer
- Loose as a gossip’s tongue —Anon
- Loose as ashes —Anon
- Loose as eggs in a nest —Walter Savage Landor
- Loose as windblown sand —Mark Helprin
- Slack as a toad —Barbara Howes
- Sprawled … lax as a drowned man —George Garrett
Similes Dictionary, 1st Edition. © 1988 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Noun | 1. | looseness - frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor dysentery - an infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea symptom - (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease the trots - obscene terms for diarrhea Montezuma's revenge - diarrhea contracted in Mexico or Central America |
2. | looseness - freedom from restraint; "the flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made" unrestraint - the quality of lacking restraint | |
3. | looseness - a lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice; "misunderstandings can often be traced to a looseness of expression" inaccuracy - the quality of being inaccurate and having errors | |
4. | looseness - the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints movability, movableness - the quality of being movable; capable of being moved or rearranged fixity, fastness, fixedness, secureness, fixture - the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment | |
5. | looseness - movement or space for movement; "there was too much play in the steering wheel" movability, movableness - the quality of being movable; capable of being moved or rearranged wiggliness - a jerky back and forth kind of mobility; "he walked with the wiggliness of a child on high heels" | |
6. | looseness - dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure intemperateness, self-indulgence, intemperance - excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence; "the intemperance of their language" |
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Translations
عَدَم إحكام الرباط
uvolněnost
løshed
lausleiki, los
gevşeklik
looseness
[ˈluːsnɪs] N1. (gen) [of bandage, tie] → lo flojo; [of clothes] → holgura f, amplitud f; [of soil] → lo suelto
looseness of the bowels (Med) → diarrea f
looseness of the bowels (Med) → diarrea f
2. (= imprecision) [of meaning, expression] → imprecisión f; [of translation] → lo aproximado
3. (= immorality) [of behaviour, morals] → lo disoluto
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
looseness
n → Lockerheit f; (of clothes) → Weite f; (of thinking) → Ungenauigkeit f; (of translation) → Freiheit f; looseness of the bowels → zu rege Darmtätigkeit; the looseness of her conduct → ihr loses or unmoralisches Benehmen; the looseness of the book’s structure → die lockere Struktur des Buches
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
looseness
[ˈluːsnɪs] n (of knot, screw) → lentezza; (of rope) → scarsa tensione f; (of clothes) → ampiezza; (of translation) → approssimazione f; (of behaviour) → dissipazione f, dissolutezzaCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
loose
(luːs) adjective1. not tight; not firmly stretched. a loose coat; This belt is loose.
2. not firmly fixed. This button is loose.
3. not tied; free. The horses are loose in the field.
4. not packed; not in a packet. loose biscuits.
ˈloosely adverbˈlooseness noun
ˈloosen verb
1. to make or become loose. She loosened the string; The screw had loosened and fallen out.
2. to relax (eg a hold). He loosened his grip.
ˌloose-ˈleaf adjective (of a notebook etc) made so that pages can easily be added or removed.
break loose to escape. The prisoner broke loose.
let loose to free from control. The circus trainer has let the lions loose.
a loose (not lose) screw.
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