loose : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: loose	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for loose
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
loose adv without restraint; "cows in India are running loose" Synonym(s): loose, free adj not compact or dense in structure or arrangement; "loose gravel" Antonym(s): compact (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player; "a loose ball" not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting; "loose clothing"; "the large shoes were very loose" Antonym(s): tight not officially recognized or controlled; "an informal agreement"; "a loose organization of the local farmers" Synonym(s): informal, loose not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem" Synonym(s): free, loose, liberal emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels" Synonym(s): lax, loose not affixed; "the stamp came loose" Synonym(s): unaffixed, loose Antonym(s): affixed not tense or taut; "the old man's skin hung loose and grey"; "slack and wrinkled skin"; "slack sails"; "a slack rope" Synonym(s): loose, slack (of textures) full of small openings or gaps; "an open texture"; "a loose weave" Synonym(s): loose, open lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; "idle talk"; "a loose tongue" Synonym(s): idle, loose not carefully arranged in a package; "a box of loose nails" 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" Synonym(s): at large(p), escaped, loose, on the loose(p) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior" Synonym(s): easy, light, loose, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton v grant freedom to; free from confinement [syn: free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen, loose] Antonym(s): confine, detain turn loose or free from restraint; "let loose mines"; "Loose terrible plagues upon humanity" Synonym(s): unleash, let loose, loose make loose or looser; "loosen the tension on a rope" Synonym(s): loosen, loose Antonym(s): stiffen become loose or looser or less tight; "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed" Synonym(s): loosen, relax, loose Antonym(s): stiffen
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Loose \Loose\, v. i. To set sail. [Obs.] --Acts xiii. 13.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Loose \Loose\, a. [Compar. {Looser}; superl. {Loosest}.] [OE. loos, lous, laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. le[a0]s false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. l[94]s, 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. --Shak. 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 ? --Addison. 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. --Milton. 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. --Whewel. 6. Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right. The loose morality which he had learned. --Sir W. Scott. 7. Unconnected; rambling. Vario spends whole mornings in running over loose and unconnected pages. --I. Watts. 8. Lax; not costive; having lax bowels. --Locke. 9. Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman. Loose ladies in delight. --Spenser. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. --Addison.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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 ? --Job. xxxviii. 31. Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them unto me. --Matt. xxi. 2. 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. --1 Cor. vii. 27. Whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. --Matt. xvi. 19. 3. To relax; to loosen; to make less strict. The joints of his loins were loosed. --Dan. v. 6. 4. To solve; to interpret. [Obs.] --Spenser.