loose是什么意思_loose怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

having escaped, especially from confinement;"a convict still at large"
"searching for two escaped prisoners"
"dogs loose on the streets"
"criminals on the loose in the neighborhood"

casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior;"her easy virtue"
"he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"
"wanton behavior"

Adverb:

without restraint;"cows in India are running loose"

Verb:

grant freedom to; free from confinement

turn loose or free from restraint;"let loose mines"
"Loose terrible plagues upon humanity"

make loose or looser;"loosen the tension on a rope"

become loose or looser or less tight;"The noose loosened"
"the rope relaxed"

中英词源

loose 松的

来自lose的形容词，松开的，松的。

loose: loose: [13] Loose is one of a large family of words that go back ultimately to Indo-European *lau-, *leu-, *lu-, which denoted ‘undoing’. It includes (via Greek) analyse and paralyse, (via Latin) dissolve and solution, and (via Germanic) lose and the suffix -less. Loose itself was borrowed from Old Norse laus, which was descended from a prehistoric Germanic *lausaz.
=> analyse, dissolve, lose, paralyse, solution
loose (adj.): early 13c., "not securely fixed;" c. 1300, "unbound," from Old Norse lauss "loose, free, vacant, dissolute," cognate with Old English leas "devoid of, false, feigned, incorrect," from Proto-Germanic *lausaz (cognates: Danish løs "loose, untied," Swedish lös "loose, movable, detached," Middle Dutch, German los "loose, free," Gothic laus "empty, vain"), from PIE *leu- "to loosen, divide, cut apart" (see lose). Meaning "not clinging, slack" is mid-15c. Meaning "not bundled" is late 15c. Sense of "unchaste, immoral" is recorded from late 15c. Meaning "at liberty, free from obligation" is 1550s. Sense of "rambling, disconnected" is from 1680s. Figurative sense of loose cannon was in use by 1896, probably from celebrated image in a popular story by Hugo:
You can reason with a bull dog, astonish a bull, fascinate a boa, frighten a tiger, soften a lion; no resource with such a monster as a loose cannon. You cannot kill it, it is dead; and at the same time it lives. It lives with a sinister life which comes from the infinite. It is moved by the ship, which is moved by the sea, which is moved by the wind. This exterminator is a plaything. [Victor Hugo, "Ninety Three"]
Loose end in reference to something unfinished, undecided, unguarded is from 1540s; to be at loose ends is from 1807. Phrase on the loose "free, unrestrained" is from 1749 (upon the loose).
loose (v.): early 13c, "to set free," from loose (adj.). Meaning "to undo, untie, unfasten" is 14c. Related: Loosed; loosing.

词态变化

第三人称单数 looses;
过去式 loosed;
过去分词 loosed;
现在分词 loosing;
名词 looseness;

权威造句

1. She unbound her hair and let it flow loose in the wind.: 她把头发解开，让它随风飘动。

2. She gathered loose soil and let it filter slowly through her fingers.: 她捧起疏松的泥土，任其缓缓地从指间漏下。

3. She was pretty and young, in a loose smocked sundress.: 她年轻貌美，一身宽松的刺绣太阳裙。

4. A man-eating lion is on the loose somewhere in England.: 英格兰有一头吃人的狮子跑出来了。

5. A gust of wind pried loose a section of sheet-metal roofing.: 一阵狂风把铺在屋顶上的一块金属片掀起来了。

近反义词

free

unfastened

untied

相似短语

on the loose adv.散漫,放荡

be on the loose 无拘束, 散漫, 逍遥法外, 放荡, 寻欢作乐

come loose v. 松掉

set loose v.出发,使爆炸,引起,(使)开始(做某事)

work loose v.松掉

loose barn 散放牛舍

loose blasting 松动爆破

loose box 单厩间

loose cement 松散水泥，散装水泥

loose colour 浮色

单词分析

这两个形容词均含“松驰的”之意。
loose常用，通俗。指人的精神或东西的松驰。
slack强调缺乏牢固性或稳固性，不坚定。

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