Lose vs Loose
Lose vs Loose
A lot of people are mixing up lose and
loose. In particular, a lot of people are writing
loose when they really mean lose. Here
are the definitions of the two words from my Penguin
dictionary:
loose [lOOs] adj not
fastened or pre- not able to
not tight, not close-
careless, inaccurate, dissolute, not closely
(of bowels) i
l. box stable or van in which an animal can move
at a l. end uncer
unoccupied ~ loose adv
play fast and l. behave rashly or unscupulously ~
loose n on the l. free
~ loose v/t
untie, release from confinement or constraint, set
fire (gun); shoot (arrow); (eccles)
lose (p/t and p/part
lost) [lOOz] v/t and i
be deprived of by ac
b suffer loss,
fail to hear, cause or
(of clock or watch)
l. one's head become flustered, l.
one's temper l. one's way fail to
l. out (US) be
defeated after a struggle.
This knot is too loose.
Please do not lose my book.
I had better not lose that file.
One way to remember the difference between the two
words is to think that "lose has lost an 'o'".
24 January 2002
Revised 10 September 2002.
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