LoSSとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, Northern England, Wales, Canada) IPA: /lɒs/
• (Standard Southern British, Scotland, Australia) IPA: /lɔs/
• (米国発音)
  • (without the cot–caught merger) IPA: /lɔs/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA: /lɑs/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /lɒs/, [lɔ̟s] ~ [lɞ̠s]
• 韻: -ɒs, -ɔːs

名詞

loss (countable and uncountable, plural losses)

1. (countable) The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.

   Synonym: expense

   Antonym: gain

   loss of limb; weight loss; loss of cognitive functions; loss of appetite.

   People are less willing to take a risk to make a gain than to avoid a loss.

   In other areas, glacier loss creates serious risk of a dry period across the Third Pole, Wang said.

2. (uncountable) The destruction or ruin of an object.
3. (countable) Something that has been destroyed or ruined.

   It was a terrible crash; both cars were total losses.

4. (countable) Defeat; an instance of being defeated.

   Antonyms: win, victory

   The match ended in their first loss of the season.

5. (countable) The death of a person or animal.

   We mourn his loss.

   The battle was won, but losses were great.

6. (uncountable) The condition of grief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who has died.

   Her daughter's sense of loss eventually led to depression.

7. (financial, countable) The sum an entity loses on balance.

   Antonym: profit

   The sum of expenditures and taxes minus total income is a loss, when this difference is positive.

8. (engineering) Electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work.

   The inefficiency of many old-fashioned power plants exceeds 60% loss before the subsequent losses during transport over the grid.

使用する際の注意点

• When loss is used in a genitive/possessive construction to denote that a thing (X) is lost, this is often constructed as loss of (X) rather than (X)'s loss.
• loss is often the object of the verbs make or take. See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take

派生語

関連する語

• lose, losings

語源 2

Pronunciation spelling of lost, representing African-American Vernacular English.

動詞

loss

1. (colloquial) Alternative spelling of lost.

アナグラム

• SOLs, Sols, sols