Dictionary Definition
loss
Noun
1 the act of losing; "everyone expected him to
win so his loss was a shock"
2 something that is lost; "the car was a total
loss"; "loss of livestock left the rancher bankrupt"
3 the amount by which the cost of a business
exceeds its revenue; "the company operated at a loss last year";
"the company operated in the red last year" [syn: red ink, red] [ant: gain]
4 gradual decline in amount or activity; "weight
loss"; "a serious loss of business"
5 the disadvantage that results from losing
something; "his loss of credibility led to his resignation";
"losing him is no great deprivation" [syn: deprivation]
6 military personnel lost by death or capture
[syn: personnel
casualty]
7 the experience of losing a loved one; "he
sympathized on the loss of their grandfather"
8 euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands
mourned his passing" [syn: passing, departure, exit, expiration, going, release]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
Old English losPronunciation
-
- Rhymes: -ɒs
Noun
- an instance of
losing
- The match ended in their first loss of the season.
- something that is lost
- It was written off as a loss.
- the condition of
having lost something or someone
- We mourn his loss.
- (plural) casualties, especially in
wartime
- The battle was won, but losses were great.
- (financial) The money a company loses. The expenditures and taxes minus total income, when this difference is positive.
- power expended without doing useful work.
Usage notes
- We often use make or take a loss. See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take
Translations
instance of losing
something lost
financial: money a company loses
- Czech: ztráta
- German: Verlust
- Japanese: 損益
- Portuguese: perda
engineering: power expended without doing useful
work
- Japanese: 損失
Translations to be checked
Related terms
Estonian
Etymology
From German SchlossNoun
lossExtensive Definition
Loss 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 intensity of a signal
- In telecommunications, loss is a decrease in signal in a
communications system:
- Angular misalignment loss, power loss caused by the deviation from optimum angular alignment
- Bridging loss, the loss that results when an impedance is connected across a transmission line
- Coupling loss, the loss that occurs when energy is transferred from one circuit, optical device, or medium to another
- Insertion loss, the decrease in transmitted signal power resulting from the insertion of a device in a transmission line or optical fiber
- Path
loss, the attenuation undergone by an electromagnetic wave in
transit from a transmitter to a receiver
- Free-space path loss, the loss in signal strength that would result if all influences were sufficiently removed having no effect on its propagation
- Reflection loss, a loss which causes energy to be reflected back toward its source
- Return loss, the ratio of the amplitude of the reflected wave to the amplitude of the incident wave
In the arts:
- Loss (film), a 2008 film by Maris Martinsons.
- Joe Loss, the founder of The Joe Loss Orchestra
- Loss (album), the debut album of Mull Historical Society
- Loss (comics), a mutant comic book character
- Lord Loss (character), the Demon Lord from Darren Shan's 10 book series The Demonata
- "The Loss" (TNG episode), a fourth-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
See also
- Stop loss
- Grief, an emotional response to loss
- Animal loss, grief over the loss of an animal
loss in German: Verlust
loss in Spanish: Loser
loss in French: Perte
loss in Ido: Perdajo
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
ablation, annihilation, attrition, bankruptcy, bereavement, breakage, breakdown, collapse, confusion, consumption, corrosion, crack-up, crippling, damage, death, decrement, defeat, deliquescence, demise, denial, depletion, deprivation, deprivement, destruction, detriment, devastation, dilapidation, diminution, disablement, disadvantage, disappearance, disappointment, dispossession, disrepair, dissipation, dissolution, divestment, downfall, drawback, drubbing, dying, encroachment, erosion, exhaustion, extermination, extinction, failure, forfeit, forfeiture, handicap, harm, havoc, hobbling, hurt, hurting, impairment, impoverishment, incapacitation, infringement, injury, inroad, liability, losing, losings, loss of ground,
losses, maiming, mayhem, mischief, mislaying, misplacement, misplacing, mutilation, passing, prejudice, privation, reduction, ruin, ruination, ruinousness, sabotage, sacrifice, scathe, shrinkage, sickening, spoiling, squandering, step backward,
trouncing, wastage, waste, wasting, weakening, wear and
tear