loss
part of speech
noun (a loss, losses; loss — uncountable)
meaning for a pupil
1) Loss is when you lose something or someone, or have less of it. tree →
2) A loss is when a team does not win a game. tree →
3) In money, a loss is when you spend more than you get back. tree →
4) A loss is the death of someone, and the sadness that comes with it. tree →
5) To be at a loss means you do not know what to do or say. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths and money lessons a loss means you got less money back than you paid (profit is the opposite). In sport it is a defeat. In feelings lessons loss means grief. Phrases: «at a loss» (not knowing what to do), «weight loss», «hearing loss», «a loss of», «make a loss».
examples
- Our team had a loss last weekend. tree →
- The shop made a loss this year. tree →
- The loss of her pet made her very sad. tree →
- Loud music can cause hearing loss. tree →
- I was at a loss for words. tree →
- We are sorry for your loss. tree →
- The storm caused a loss of power. tree →
note
Countable or uncountable. Double s. Trap: «loss» (noun) vs «lose» (verb) vs «loose» (not tight). Maths: loss = cost price − selling price (buy for £10, sell for £7: loss of £3).
In the corpora
- Dams on rivers, roads, new buildings and the loss of resting places along the way all make migration harder today.
- Bees have disappeared from some places because of pesticides (sprays that kill insects), illness and the loss of flowers.
- Sadly, more than a quarter of parrot kinds are threatened, mainly by forest loss and by people catching them as pets.
- Banks and companies use dry, technical words so that debt and job losses sound like ordinary paperwork.
- Ask what the plain word would be: a fee, a bug, a loss, a tax, a lie.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «loss» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.