loose: kelime anlamı ve tanımları

Not fastened, restrained, or contained: loose bricks.

Not taut, fixed, or rigid: a loose anchor line; a loose chair leg.

Free from confinement or imprisonment; unfettered: criminals loose in the neighborhood; dogs that are loose on the streets.

Not tight-fitting or tightly fitted: loose shoes.

Not bound, bundled, stapled, or gathered together: loose papers.

Not compact or dense in arrangement or structure: loose gravel.

Lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; idle: loose talk.

Not formal; relaxed: a loose atmosphere at the club.

Lacking conventional moral restraint in sexual behavior.

Not literal or exact: a loose translation.

Characterized by a free movement of fluids in the body: a loose cough; loose bowels.

In a loose manner.

To let loose; release: loosed the dogs.

To make loose; undo: loosed his belt.

To cast loose; detach: hikers loosing their packs at camp.

To let fly; discharge: loosed an arrow.

To release pressure or obligation from; absolve: loosed her from the responsibility.

To make less strict; relax: a leader's strong authority that was loosed by easy times.

To become loose.

To discharge a missile; fire.

on the loose At large; free.

on the loose Acting in an uninhibited fashion.