loose

[Loose]

If something is loose, it's not attached very securely to anything. Be sure the horse trailer attached to your truck isn't loose, or it might just roll away on its own while you're on the highway.

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Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.

Verb
become loose or looser or less tight; "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed"

Verb
make loose or looser; "loosen the tension on a rope"

Verb
turn loose or free from restraint; "let loose mines"; "Loose terrible plagues upon humanity"

Verb
grant freedom to; free from confinement

Adjective
not affixed; "the stamp came loose"

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Adjective S.
not bound or fastened or gathered together; "loose pages"; "loose papers"

Adjective S.
casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior"

Adjective
not compact or dense in structure or arrangement; "loose gravel"

Adjective S.
(of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player; "a loose ball"

Adjective S.
emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels"

Adjective S.
not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem"

Adjective S.
having escaped, especially from confinement; "a convict still at large"; "searching for two escaped prisoners"; "dogs loose on the streets"; "criminals on the loose in the neighborhood"

Adjective S.
not restrained or confined or attached; "a pocket full of loose bills"; "knocked the ball loose"; "got loose from his attacker"

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freely producing mucus; "a loose phlegmy cough"

Adjective
not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting; "loose clothing"; "the large shoes were very loose"

Adjective S.
not officially recognized or controlled; "an informal agreement"; "a loose organization of the local farmers"

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not carefully arranged in a package; "a box of loose nails"

Adjective S.
lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; "idle talk"; "a loose tongue"

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not fixed firmly or tightly; "the bolts became loose over time"; "a loose chair leg"; "loose bricks"

Adjective S.
(of textures) full of small openings or gaps; "an open texture"; "a loose weave"

Adjective S.
not tense or taut; "the old man''s skin hung loose and gray"; "slack and wrinkled skin"; "slack sails"; "a slack rope"

Adverb
without restraint; "cows in India are running loose"


superl.
Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.

superl.
Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc. ; -- with from or of.

superl.
Not tight or close; as, a loose garment.

superl.
Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture.

superl.
Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning.

superl.
Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right.

superl.
Unconnected; rambling.

superl.
Lax; not costive; having lax bowels.

superl.
Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman.

superl.
Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle.

n.
Freedom from restraint.

n.
A letting go; discharge.

a.
To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.

a.
To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit.

a.
To relax; to loosen; to make less strict.

a.
To solve; to interpret.

v. i.
To set sail.


Loose

Loose , a. [Compar. Looser ; superl. Loosest.] [OE. loos, lous, laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. le'a0s false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. l'94s, Goth. laus, and E. lose. See Lose, and cf. Leasing falsehood.] 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.
Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat.
2. Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc. ; -- with from or of.
Now I stand Loose of my vow; but who knows Cato's thoughts ?
3. Not tight or close; as, a loose garment. 4. Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture.
With horse and chariots ranked in loose array.
5. Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning.
The comparison employed . . . must be considered rather as a loose analogy than as an exact scientific explanation.
6. Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right.
The loose morality which he had learned.
7. Unconnected; rambling.
Vario spends whole mornings in running over loose and unconnected pages.
8. Lax; not costive; having lax bowels. Locke. 9. Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman.
Loose ladies in delight.
10. Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle. Dryden. At loose ends, not in order; in confusion; carelessly managed. -- Fast and loose. See under Fast. -- To break loose. See under Break. -- Loose pulley. (Mach.) See Fast and loose pulleys, under Fast. -- To let loose, to free from restraint or confinement; to set at liberty.

Loose

Loose, n. 1. Freedom from restraint. [Obs.] Prior. 2. A letting go; discharge. B. Jonson. To give a loose, to give freedom.
Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow.

Loose

Loose , v. n. [imp. & p. p. Loosed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Loosing.] [From Loose, a.] 1. To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.
Canst thou . . . loose the bands of Orion ?
Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them unto me.
2. To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit.
Art thou loosed from a wife ? seek not a wife.
Whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
3. To relax; to loosen; to make less strict.
The joints of his loins were loosed.
4. To solve; to interpret. [Obs.] Spenser.

Loose

Loose, v. i. To set sail. [Obs.] Acts xiii. 13.

Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.

Freedom from restraint.

To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.

To set sail.

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Usage Examples

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

The band feels loose in all the right ways, and it's just so cool looking out and seeing all of these people that I haven't seen in a while.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.

I've got to get on myself to be sharp, funny and loose.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.

I remember when first, Stripes, and then Animal House came out - which I was really proud of, even though it was kind of loose and quite raucous - there were imitative movies that were not quite as good.

I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

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