Word Finder - loses

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To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability due to unfortunate or unknown circumstances, events or reasons.

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He lost his hearing in the explosion.

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To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; to go astray from.

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I lost my way in the forest.

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To fail to win (a game, competition, trial, etc).

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We lost the football match.

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To be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer.

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Mission control lost the satellite as its signal died down.

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To cause (somebody) to be unable to follow or trace one any longer.

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We managed to lose our pursuers in the forest.

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To cease exhibiting; to overcome (a behavior or emotion).

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To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate.

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When we get into the building, please lose the hat.

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Of a clock, to run slower than expected.

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It's already 5:30? My watch must have lost a few minutes.

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(ditransitive) To cause (someone) the loss of something; to deprive of.

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To fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss.

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I lost a part of what he said.

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To cause to part with; to deprive of.

In proportion to the defeat of the Austrian army Austria loses its rights, and the rights and the strength of France increase.

A charged body in air loses its charge in more than one way.

Then, whether prices rise or fall as a whole, he gains if the difference between the two prices becomes less than a d., but if it becomes more, he loses.

Glucoseoxime on warming with acetic anhydride is simultaneously acetylated and dehydrated, yielding an acetylated gluconitrile, which when warmed with ammoniacal silver nitrate loses hydrocyanic acid and is transformed into an acetyl pentose.

An heir who has voluntarily caused the death of the person from whom he should inherit loses all rights of succession.

Another disadvantage of uncovered soil in a plantation of young rubber trees is that the ground under the heat of a tropical sun rapidly loses its moisture.

On ignition, it loses oxygen and forms litharge.

When heated it loses water and forms pyraconitine.

If the iron is soft and fairly pure, it loses its attractive property when removed from the neighbourhood of the magnet; if it is hard, some of the induced magnetism is permanently retained, and the piece becomes an artificial magnet.

One or more of the electrons may be detached from the system by a finite force, the number so detachable depending on the valency of the atom; if the atom loses an electron, it becomes positively electrified; if it receives additional electrons, it is negatively electrified.

Here the land loses its semi-tropical character and resembles more the plains of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal.

Richard of St Victor, prior of the monastery from 1162 to 1173, is still more absorbed in mysticism, and his successor Walter loses his temper altogether in abuse of the dialecticians and the Summists alike.

The patient then rapidly loses flesh and strength, and a hard lump may be felt in the upper part of the abdomen.

Should one of these teeth be destroyed the opposed one loses its natural means of attrition and becomes a remarkable, curved tusk-like elongation.

These substances condense to form tetra-aminotriphenylmethane, which, on heating with acids, loses ammonia and yields diaminodihydrophenylacridine, from which benzoflavin is obtained by oxidation.

The system of "compositions" or fines, paid in many cases with the help of kinsmen, finds its natural place in the ancient, tribal period of English history and loses its vitality later on in consequence of the growth of central power and of the scattering of maegths.

Pure carbonate of lime when heated loses 44% of its weight, the decrease being due to the loss of carbon dioxide gas.

The grass used for Japanese lawns loses its verdure in autumn and remains from November to March a greyish brown blot upon the scene.

A monochrome loses much of its attractiveness when the color merges into a metal rim, or when the interior of a vase is covered with crude unpolished paste.

There is hardly in Robinson Crusoe a scene equal, and there is consequently not in English literature a scene superior, to that where the youthful pickpocket first exercises his trade, and then for a time loses his ill-gotten gains.

If the venom is slowly absorbed, the blood loses its coagulability, owing to the breaking down of the red blood-corpuscles, most so with vipers, less with Australian snakes, least so with the cobra.

The language of literature, in the most elaborate kind of prose as well as poetry, loses all ring of popular speech.

The small sphere then becomes part of the interior of the other and loses all charge.

When a concentrated solution of auric chloride is treated with caustic potash, a brown precipitate of auric hydrate, Au(OH) 3, is obtained, which, on heating, loses water to form auryl hydrate, AuO(OH), and auric oxide, Au 2 0 3.

It thereby loses the cost of rearing that number of people to adult age, and is left with a disproportionate number of children and old people.

The importance of the osmotic pressure of sea-water in biology will be easily understood from the fact that a frog placed in sea-water loses water by exosmosis and soon becomes 20% lighter than its original weight, while a true salt-water fish suddenly transferred to fresh water gains water by endosmosis, swells up and quickly succumbs.

Nitrogen must, however, be applied with caution as it makes the barley rich in albumen, and highly albuminous barley keeps badly and easily loses its germinating capacity.

On the whole the air S within ABCD neither gains nor g D loses momentum, so that on the whole it receives as much through AB as it gives up to CD.

As a general rule, an agreeable grotesque of the affairs of life (a grotesque which never loses hold of good taste sufficiently to be called burlesque) occupies him.

It can be stiffened by girders and bracing and is then of mixed type, when it loses much of its advantage in economy.

Through the valley runs the Khusp river, which loses itself in the desert towards the west; it is, however, generally dry.

It is soluble in water, and the aqueous solution on boiling loses ammonia and the acid phosphate NH 4 H 2 PO 4 is formed.

The aqueous solution on boiling loses some ammonia and forms an acid sulphate.

The ectoderm loses entirely the ciliation which it had in the planula and actinula stages and commonly secretes on its external surface a protective or supporting investment, the perisarc. Contrasting with this, the anthopolyp is generally of s q uat form, the diameter often exceeding the height; the peristome is wide, a hypostome is lacking, and the ectoderm, or so much of it as is exposed, i.e.

Under these conditions the lactose decomposes into dark-brown fission products, the fat loses its emulsified condition and separates out as cream which cannot be made to diffuse again even by shaking, and the albuminoids are converted into a form very difficult of digestion.

It is a dark yellow powder, which fuses at a high temperature, the liquid on cooling depositing shining tabular crystals; at a white heat it loses oxygen and yields the monoxide.

The third zone loses its arid character as it approaches the coast, and is better clothed with vegetation.

Electra, cruelly ill-treated by Clytaemnestra and her paramour, never loses hope that her brother will return to avenge his father.

The exhibition receiving the grant loses its local character, and thus becomes the Dominion exhibition or fair for that year.

On exposure to a high temperature, the sapphire usually loses colour, but, unlike ruby, it does not regain it on cooling.

The blood loses its transparency and becomes milky, its volume increases so that the skin cannot hold it, and it escapes through the pores.

It is only floss, injured and unreelable cocoons, the husks of reeled cocoons, and other waste from reeling, with certain wild silks, which are treated by the spun silk process, and the silk thereby produced loses much of the beauty, strength and brilliance which are characteristic of the manufactures from reeled silk.

Silk, we have seen, loses about one-fourth of its weight in scouring.

The hydrated salt loses water on heating, and partially decomposes into hydrochloric acid and magnesium oxychlorides.

But he was by no means a practical geographer, and the record of his travels loses greatly in value from the want of precise scientific data.

If an iron ship be swung when upright for deviation, and the mean horizontal and vertical magnetic forces at the compass positions be also observed in different parts of the world, mathematical analysis shows that the deviations are caused partly by the permanent magnetism of hard iron, partly by the transient induced magnetism of soft iron both horizontal and vertical, and in a lesser degree by iron which is neither magnetically hard nor soft, but which becomes magnetized in the same manner as hard iron, though it gradually loses its magnetism on change of conditions, as, for example, in the case of a ship, repaired and hammered in dock, steaming in an opposite direction at sea.

If however the bird flies away, egg and all, then he faints or loses his reason.

It is situated on rising ground west of the river Dearne, and, though it loses in attraction owing to its numerous factories, its neighbourhood has considerable natural beauty.

As such steel cools slowly past Ar3, Ar 2 and Ar 1, it loses its hardening power progressively.

It forms an addition product with acrylic ester, which on heating loses nitrogen and leaves trimethylene dicarboxylic ester.