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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: loss - lotos-eater</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="loss"> loss, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1a. the action of losing or having lost something. Ex. The loss of health is serious, but the loss of a pencil is not. <DD> b. the fact or condition of being lost. Ex. Thou hast ... quitted all to save A world from utter loss (Milton). <DD> 2. a person or thing lost. Ex. His house was a complete loss to the fire. The death of the statesman was a great loss to his country. <DD> 3. the amount lost. <DD> 4. the value of the thing lost; harm or disadvantage caused by losing something. Ex. Our losses by the fire amounted to $10,000. <DD> 5. a defeat. Ex. Our team had two losses and one tie out of ten games played. <DD> 6. (Military.) the losing of soldiers by death, capture, or wounding. <DD> 7. (Insurance.) the occurrence of death, property damage, or other contingency against which a person is insured, under circumstances that make the insurer liable under the contract. <DD> 8. (Electricity.) the reduction in power, measured by the difference between the power input and power output, in an electric circuit, device, or system, corresponding to the transformation of electric energy into heat. expr. at a loss, <DD> a. not sure; puzzled; in difficulty. Ex. He was embarrassed and at a loss as to how to act. <DD> b. embarrassed for want of something. Ex. at a loss for words or for information. expr. at a loss to, unable to. Ex. at a loss to understand, imagine, or explain. expr. losses, <DD> a. the number of soldiers dead, wounded, or captured. Ex. The losses in that war were great. <DD> b. (Accounting.) the excess of money spent or invested over money gained in any business transaction, manufacturing operation, or other venture. Ex. The losses put them in the red. <DD> c. (Accounting.) the ratio of monetary loss to the amount of capital invested, especially for a fiscal year or other stated period of time. Ex. The firm reported losses in excess of a million. </DL> <A NAME="lossleader"> loss leader,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Commerce.) an article of trade sold below cost to attract customers. Ex. Retailers are meeting the new competition with such old weapons as special loss leaders (Time). </DL> <A NAME="lossmaker"> lossmaker, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a business or industry that shows consistent losses or deficits. Ex. What happens, when two companies, both lossmakers, merge into one? The answer, as often as not, is one big lossmaker (Manchester Guardian Weekly). </DL> <A NAME="lossmaking"> lossmaking, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) showing consistent losses or deficits. </DL> <A NAME="lossratio"> loss ratio,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Insurance.) the ratio of the amounts paid out to insured parties to the value of the premiums received during a given period. </DL> <A NAME="lossy"> lossy, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Electronics.) tending to lose or dissipate energy. Ex. At optical frequencies a metal transmission line structure would be very lossy and only transparent dielectric materials such as glass can be considered (Science Journal). </DL> <A NAME="lost"> lost, verb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>verb a past tense and past participle of lose. Ex. I lost my new pencil. I had already lost my ruler. <DD>adj. 1. no longer possessed or retained. Ex. lost friends. <DD> 2. no longer to be found; missing. Ex. lost books. (SYN) astray. <DD> 3. met with defeat; not won. Ex. a lost battle, a lost prize. <DD> 4. not used to good purpose; wasted. Ex. lost time. <DD> 5. (Figurative.) having gone astray. Ex. a lost child. <DD> 6. destroyed or ruined. Ex. a lost soul, a lost cause. <DD> 7. (Figurative.) bewildered. Ex. a lost expression. expr. be lost on (or upon), to have no effect on; fail to influence. Ex. Your kindness is not lost upon me (Harriet Martineau). expr. lost in, <DD> a. so taken up with (something) that one fails to notice anything else; completely absorbed or interested in. Ex. lost in contemplation. He was lost in a book and failed to hear us come in. <DD> b. hidden or obscured in. Ex. outlines lost in the fog. <DD> c. merged in or obscured by (something else). Ex. a ball lost in the sun. Her small contribution was lost in the grand total. expr. lost to, <DD> a. no longer possible or open to. Ex. The opportunity was lost to him. <DD> b. no longer belonging to. Ex. He realized that she was lost to him. <DD> c. insensible to. Ex. The deserting soldier was lost to all sense of duty to his country. noun lostness. </DL> <A NAME="lostcause"> lost cause,<DL COMPACT><DD> a cause that is defeated already or sure to be defeated. Ex. ... the idealized heroic Lost Cause of the Confederacy (New York Times). </DL> <A NAME="lostgeneration"> Lost Generation,<DL COMPACT><DD> the young people, especially writers and artists, who emerged from World War I (1914-1918) disillusioned and without roots. </DL> <A NAME="losttribes"> lost tribes,<DL COMPACT><DD> the ten Hebrew tribes inhabiting the northern kingdom of Israel, taken into captivity by Sargon of Assyria in 721 B.C. and believed never to have returned to their tribal lands. </DL> <A NAME="lostwax"> lost-wax, adjective. =cire-perdue.</DL> <A NAME="lot"> lot, noun, verb, lotted, lotting, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. one of a set of objects, such as bits of paper or wood, used to decide something by chance. The winner or loser is decided by the size of the lot chosen by him from a set held so that they appear to be equal. <DD> 2. such a method of deciding. Ex. to divide property by lot. It was settled by lot. <DD> 3. the choice made in this way. Ex. The lot fell to me. <DD> 4. what a person gets by lot; one's share or portion. Ex. This then was the lot of the tribe ... of Judah ... even to the border of Edom (Joshua 15:1). (SYN) allotment, part, parcel. <DD> 5. (Figurative.) a person's destiny; fate; fortune. Ex. a happy lot. A policeman's lot is not a happy one! (W. S. Gilbert). We will submit to whatever lot a wise Providence may send us (Hawthorne). (SYN) doom. <DD> 6. a plot or portion of ground. Ex. His house is between two empty lots. <DD> 7. a motion-picture studio and its grounds. <DD> 8. a portion or part. Ex. Some of the bread in that last lot was moldy. He divided the fruit into ten lots. <DD> 9. a number of persons or things considered as a group; collection; set. Ex. a fine lot of boys. This lot of oranges is better than the last. <DD> 10. (Informal.) a great many; a good deal. Ex. a lot of books. I have a lot of marbles. <DD> 11. (Informal.) a person of a certain kind. Ex. He is a bad lot. <DD>v.t. 1. to divide into lots, as land. <DD> 2. to assign to someone as his share or portion, or as his lot or destiny. Ex. Who ... were lotted their shares in a quarrel not theirs (Thomas Hardy). <DD> 3. to cast lots for; divide, apportion, or distribute by lot. <DD>v.i. to cast lots. <DD>adv. a lot, (Informal.) a great deal; much. Ex. I feel a lot better. expr. cast (or throw) in one's lot with, to share the fate of; become a partner with. Ex. I intended to go along with this good man, and to cast in my lot with him (John Bunyan). expr. draw (or cast) lots, to use lots to decide something. Ex. We drew lots to decide who should be captain. expr. lots, (Informal.) <DD> a. a great many; a good deal. Ex. lots of time, lots of money. <DD> b. very much. Ex. I like you lots. I feel lots better. expr. the lot, (Especially British.) everyone or everything; all. Ex. Painting, wallpapering, carpeting, rooftiling--the lot (Punch). </DL> <A NAME="lot"> Lot, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a righteous man, the nephew of Abraham, who was allowed to escape from Sodom with his wife before God destroyed it. His wife looked back, and was changed into a pillar of salt (in the Bible, Genesis 19:1-26). </DL> <A NAME="lota"> lota or lotah, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a round water pot, usually of polished brass, used especially in India and the East Indies. </DL> <A NAME="lote"> lote, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) lotus. </DL> <A NAME="loth"> loth, adjective, noun. =loath.</DL> <A NAME="lothario"> Lothario, noun, pl. -ios.<DL COMPACT><DD> a man who makes love to many women; libertine. (SYN) rake. </DL> <A NAME="lothly"> lothly, adverb. =loathly (2).</DL> <A NAME="lothsome"> lothsome, adjective. =loathsome.</DL> <A NAME="loti"> loti, noun, pl. maloti.<DL COMPACT><DD> the unit of money of Lesotho, equal in value with the South African rand. Ex. On Jan. 19, 1980, Lesotho issued its new currency, the loti ... backed by South Africa's rand (Guy Arnold). </DL> <A NAME="lotic"> lotic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Ecology.) of, living in, or designating rapidly flowing water, such as a stream (contrasted with lentic). </DL> <A NAME="lotiform"> lotiform, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> shaped like or resembling a lotus, especially in form. </DL> <A NAME="lotion"> lotion, noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a liquid containing medicine or a cosmetic. Lotions are applied to the skin to relieve pain or to heal, cleanse, perfume, or beautify the skin. Ex. Among products that can now be packaged in ... squeeze bottles are ... complexion lotions (Newsweek). <DD> 2. (Obsolete.) the act of washing (the body); ablution. <DD>v.t. to put lotion on. Ex. Lotion your hands anytime (New Yorker). </DL> <A NAME="loto"> loto, noun. =lotto.</DL> <A NAME="lotophagi"> Lotophagi, noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Greek Legend.) lotus-eaters. </DL> <A NAME="lotos"> lotos, noun. =lotus.</DL> <A NAME="lotoseater"> lotos-eater, noun. =lotus-eater.</DL> <A HREF="lots.dic">NEXT</A>