loss
1loss — n 1: physical, emotional, or esp. economic harm or damage sustained: as a: decrease in value, capital, or amount compare gain b: an amount by which the cost of something (as goods or services) exceeds the selling price compare …
2loss — W1S2 [lɔs US lo:s] n [: Old English; Origin: los destruction ] 1.) [U and C] the fact of no longer having something, or of having less of it than you used to have, or the process by which this happens loss of ▪ The court awarded Ms Dixon £7,000… …
3loss — [ lɔs ] noun *** ▸ 1 no longer having something ▸ 2 having less than before ▸ 3 failure to win race etc. ▸ 4 money lost ▸ 5 death of someone ▸ 6 sadness from death/loss ▸ 7 disadvantage from loss ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) count or uncount the state of not …
4Loss — may refer to:*A negative difference between retail price and cost of production *An event in which the team or individual in question did not win. *Loss (baseball), a pitching statistic in baseball *Attenuation, a reduction in amplitude and… …
5Loss — (l[o^]s; 115), n. [AS. los loss, losing, fr. le[ o]san to lose. [root]127. See {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. [1913 Webster]… …
6loss — (n.) O.E. los loss, destruction, from P.Gmc. *lausa (see LOSE (Cf. lose)). The modern word, however, probably evolved 14c. with a weaker sense, from lost, the original pp. of lose. Phrase at a loss (1590s) originally refers to hounds losing the… …
7Løss — Løss, gulligt fint sand eller ler …
8löss — s.m.inv. var. → loess …
9Loss — Porté en Autriche et en Allemagne, présent aussi dans la Moselle, c est un nom de sens incertain, tant les possibilités sont nombreuses. On peut penser au moyen bas allemand los (= libre), au moyen haut allemand lose (= truie), à une variante du… …
10Löss — Löss, (auch:) Löß: Der seit der 1. Hälfte des 19. Jh.s bezeugte geologische Fachausdruck für die gelbliche, feinkörnige Moränen oder Steppenstaubablagerung ist von dem Geologen v. Leonhard geprägt, und zwar wahrscheinlich aus aleman. lösch… …
