(v. t.) To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle.
(v. t.) To cease to have; to possess no longer; to suffer diminution of; as, to lose one's relish for anything; to lose one's health.
(v. t.) Not to employ; to employ ineffectually; to throw away; to waste; to squander; as, to lose a day; to lose the benefits of instruction.
(v. t.) To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to and; to go astray from; as, to lose one's way.
(v. t.) To ruin; to destroy; as destroy; as, the ship was lost on the ledge.
(v. t.) To be deprived of the view of; to cease to see or know the whereabouts of; as, he lost his companion in the crowd.
(v. t.) To fail to obtain or enjoy; to fail to gain or win; hence, to fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss; as, I lost a part of what he said.
(v. t.) To cause to part with; to deprive of.
(v. t.) To prevent from gaining or obtaining.
(v. i.) To suffer loss, disadvantage, or defeat; to be worse off, esp. as the result of any kind of contest.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(2) In fact, you might read it as a signal … that the president might well lose on this,” she said.
(3) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
(4) The effects of brain injury can be catastrophic and long-term so the impact of more research would be vast, but affected numbers are too small so it loses out.
(5) Larvae from fresh water eggs, cultured in fresh water and 'normal' laboratory cultures reached 50% infectivity in 3-5 days, losing potential infectivity in 11-15 days post-hatching.
(6) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
(7) • young clownfish will lose their ability to "smell" the anemone species that they shelter in.
(8) c-WRT-7 cells were found to differentiate into macrophage-like cells and to lose their growth capacity both in vitro and in vivo after incubation with LPS.
(9) By using these larger catheters, the surgeon will not lose the option of using isosmotic preparations.
(10) Winning and losing were predicted to be more significant in determining cardiovascular responses for Type A's than for Type B's.
(11) "I have to say that I have been a Chelsea player since 2004 and I have never had six minutes in my favour when I was losing.
(12) He would still lose some of his original cash, but it would be less.
(13) Moreover, respondents indicating initially relatively high levels of emotional eating who reported a reduction in that level were found to lose significantly (p less than 0.01) more reported weight and to be significantly (p less than 0.05) more successful at approaching target weight over the period of the study than respondents who continued to report high levels of emotional eating.
(14) In addition, we have shown that long-lived, presumably non-senescent, strains do not arise by suppressor mutation, but lose senescence plasmid DNA by another mechanism.
(15) We find that the labelled cell has a myelinated axon, but that the axon loses its myelin within 50 microns of the soma and has not yet been traced further.
(16) Duraphat-treated samples submerged in water after the exposure lost only about 50% of the deposited fluoride, whereas samples treated with 2% NaF are known to lose all their fluoride under similar circumstances, a condition which may be related to the favorable clinical effect of Duraphat.
(17) In the midst of all the newspaper headlines and vigils you can sometimes lose sight of the man who was on death row.
(18) Last month Walsall council announced it would close 15 of its 16 libraries, and residents told the Guardian they stood to lose vital community spaces as well as reading resources.
(19) Rayburn, who was also told by his jobcentre he would lose his benefits if he did not work without pay, said he spent almost two months stacking and cleaning shelves and sometimes doing night shifts.
(20) A growing educated middle class is losing touch with apartheid history and seeking alternatives.
Throw
Definition:
(v. t.) To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent.
(n.) Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.
(n.) Time; while; space of time; moment; trice.
(v. t.) To fling, cast, or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; -- distinguished from to toss, or to bowl.
(v. t.) To fling or cast in any manner; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine; to propel; to send; as, to throw stones or dust with the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of water to extinguish flames.
(v. t.) To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock.
(v. t.) To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river.
(v. t.) To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.
(v. t.) To cast, as dice; to venture at dice.
(v. t.) To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
(v. t.) To divest or strip one's self of; to put off.
(v. t.) To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.
(v. t.) To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; -- said especially of rabbits.
(v. t.) To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; -- sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.
(v. i.) To perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice.
(n.) The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast.
(n.) A stroke; a blow.
(n.) The distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw.
(n.) A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw.
(n.) An effort; a violent sally.
(n.) The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston.
(n.) A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a).
(n.) A turner's lathe; a throwe.
(n.) The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow.
Example Sentences:
(1) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
(2) The London Olympics delivered its undeniable panache by throwing a large amount of money at a small number of people who were set a simple goal.
(3) When you’ve got a man with a longer jab, you can’t throw single shots.
(4) It’s exhilarating – until you see someone throw a firework at a police horse.
(5) Marie Johansson, clinical lead at Oxford University's mindfulness centre , stressed the need for proper training of at least a year until health professionals can teach meditation, partly because on rare occasions it can throw up "extremely distressing experiences".
(6) Standing as he explains the book's take-home point, Miliband recalls the author Michael Lewis's research showing that a quarter-back is the most highly paid player, but because they throw with their right arm they can often be floored by an attacker from their blindside.
(7) Trichotomic classification of communities throws some light on the problem of causes of death of the rural and urban population.
(8) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
(9) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
(10) Masood’s car struck her, throwing her into the river.
(11) Schools should adopt whole-school approaches to building emotional resilience – everyone from the dinner ladies to the headteacher needs to understand how to help young people to cope with what the modern world throws at them.
(12) Climate change is also high on protesters’ and politicians’ agendas, and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, called for the industrial powers to throw their weight behind a longstanding pledge to seek $100bn (£65bn) to help poor countries tackle climate change, agreed in Copenhagen in 2009.
(13) In principle, the more turns and throws the stronger the knot.
(14) Ron Hogg, the PCC for Durham says that dwindling resources and a reluctance to throw people in jail over a plant (I paraphrase slightly) has led him to instruct his officers to leave pot smokers alone.
(15) But that Monday night, I went to bed and decided to throw my hat in the ring."
(16) This regulation not only guarantees the suppression of overproduction of RNA polymerase subunits but also throws light on the problem of how the syntheses of RNA polymerase and ribosome respond similarly to the shift of nutrients and temperature, but differently to the starvation for amino acids.
(17) It would also throw a light on the appalling conditions in which cheap migrant labour is employed to toil Europe's agriculturally rich southern land.
(18) Edu was tried out there in practice midweek... 2.18am GMT 6 mins Costa Rica get forward for the first time and have a throw deep in US territory.
(19) But whenever Garcia throws a left hook Matthysse really looks like he has no idea it's coming.
(20) And Myers is cautioned after a silly block 3.21am GMT 54 mins Besler with a long-throw for SKC but it's cleared.