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lose is a verb:
- To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability due to unfortunate or unknown circumstances, events or reasons.
"If you lose that ten pound note, you'll be sorry." - To have (an organ) removed from one's body, especially by accident.
"Johnny lost a tooth, but kept it for the tooth fairy." - To fail to win (a game, competition, trial, etc). Often followed by out
"We lost the match." - To shed (weight); to reduce.
"I’ve lost five pounds this week." - To have (a relative or friend) die.
"She lost all her sons in the war." - To be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer.
"The policeman lost the robber he was chasing." - To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate.
"When we get into the building, please lose the hat." - To fail to be the winner.
"Did you win this time? - No, I lost again." - Of a clock, to run slower than expected.
"My watch loses five minutes a week."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is lose?
- Verb usage: If you lose that ten pound note, you'll be sorry.
- Verb usage: He lost his hearing in the explosion.
- Verb usage: She lost her position when the company was taken over.
- Verb usage: Johnny lost a tooth, but kept it for the tooth fairy.
- Verb usage: He lost his spleen in a car wreck.
- Verb usage: We lost the match.
- Verb usage: I’ve lost five pounds this week.
- Verb usage: She lost all her sons in the war.
- Verb usage: The policeman lost the robber he was chasing.
- Verb usage: Mission control lost the satellite as its signal died down.
- Verb usage: When we get into the building, please lose the hat.
- Verb usage: Did you win this time? - No, I lost again.
- Verb usage: My watch loses five minutes a week.
- Verb usage: It's already 5:30? My watch must have lost a few minutes.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of lose are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of lose, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).