Looseness

Definition

loose / lu:s / adj ( -r, -st ) ၁။ ေခ်ာင္ေသာ။ a loose tooth / thread / screw / floorboard ❍ Be careful with that saucepan — the handle’s loose. ❍ The hook had come / worked loose (from the wall). ၂။ ခ်ည္ေႏွာင္မထားေသာ။ လြတ္ေန ေသာ။ The cows had got out of the field and were (roaming) loose in the road. ❍ Don’t let that dog loose among the sheep. ၃။ အလြတ္။ loose change (ie coins carried eg in a pocket) ❍ loose papers ❍ nails sold loose by weight (ie not in a packet) ❍ hair hanging loose. ၄။ ေလ်ာ့ရိေလ်ာ့ရဲျဖစ္ေသာ။ political parties forming a loose alliance. ၅။ မတိက်ေသာ။ a loose translation/ interpretation ❍ loose thinking. ၆။ (က) ေလ်ာ့ရဲရဲရိွေသာ။ မတင္းမရင္း ျဖစ္ေသာ။ မခိုင္ေသာ။ loose skin ❍ have loose bowels (ie suffer from DIARRHOEA). (ခ) ေခ်ာင္ေသာ။ ပြေသာ။ loose clothing. Compare TIGHT ၁, ၂ ၇။ ပြေသာ။ cloth with a loose weave ❍ loose soil. ၈။ ( dated derog ) စာရိတၱပ်က္ေသာ။ lead a loose and dissolute life. ၉။ (ခရစ္ကက္တြင္) ေတာ္စြေလ်ာ္စြ(ပစ္ေပး)ေသာ။ some rather loose bowling. ၁၀။ ( sport ) လြတ္ေနေသာ (ေဘာလံုး)။ looseness n [U] v ၁။ ျဖဳတ္သည္။ လႊတ္ေပးသည္။ He loosed the brake. ❍ anarchy loosed upon the world. ၂။ ေလွ်ာ့သည္။ She loosed her belt. ၃။ ~ sth (off) (at sb/sth) ပစ္လႊတ္သည္။ He loosed off a shot at a rabbit. ❏ at a loose end ( US also at loose ends) [ IDM ] လုပ္စရာမရိွ။ အားသည္။ Come and see us if you’re at a loose end. See also LOOSE END ❏ break loose (from sb/sth) [ IDM ] လြတ္ထြက္သည္။ ခြဲထြက္သည္။ The dog had broken loose. ❍ break loose from tradition. ❏ cut loose from sb/sth [ IDM ] အဆက္ျဖတ္သည္။ He cut loose from his family. ❏ cut sth/sb/ oneself loose (from sth) [ IDM ] ခ်ည္ထားေသာ ႀကိဳးကိုျဖဳတ္သည္။ အဆက္ျဖတ္သည္။ ေက်ာ ခိုင္းသည္။ cut a boat loose ❍ cut oneself loose from the past. ❏ have a loose tongue [ IDM ] အာေခ်ာင္သည္။ ❏ let sb loose on sth [ IDM ] လႊတ္ထားသည္။ လႊတ္ေပးသည္။ Don’t let Bill loose on the garden — he’d pull up all the flowers. ❏ loose- (in compounds) ပြပြ။ ဖားဖား။ loose-fitting clothes. ❏ loose box n ျမင္းတစ္ေကာင္ လူးသာလြန္႔သာ ေနႏိုင္ေသာ ေဇာင္းတြင္း (သို႔) ယာဥ္ေပၚအကန္႔။ ❏ loose cover ( Brit ) ( US slip cover ) n (usu pl ) ကုလားထိုင္ဖံုး/စြပ္။ ❏ loose end n (usu pl ) လက္စမသတ္ရေသးေသာ အလုပ္။ လက္စသတ္စရာ။ tie up a few loose ends before leaving work ❍ The play has too many loose ends. ❏ loose-leaf adj တစ္ရြက္ခ်င္းတြဲထားေသာ (စာတြဲ)။ a loose-leaf file. ❏ loosely adv ေလ်ာ့ရဲရဲ။ မေရမရာ။ hands loosely clasped ❍ The play is loosely based on a local legend. looseness n [U] ❏ (be) on the loose [ IDM ] လြတ္ေနသည္။ prisoners on the loose.

Examples

1. Loose floorboards
2. A loose tooth
3. [work/come loose] : One of the screws had worked loose.
4. Her hair was loose and hung on her shoulders.
5. Loose soil/stones
6. A large dog was loose in the garden.
7. [break/shake/get loose (from someone/something)] : The woman managed to break loose from her attacker and run for help.
8. [turn/set/let someone loose] : The kidnappers had set him loose on a dark country lane.
9. Loose oranges are 60p each.
10. A loose cotton shirt
11. This is a loose translation of the letter.
12. A system in which political parties form a loose alliance
13. We’ve got a loose arrangement for looking after each other’s children.
14. [loose talk] : You’ve been warned about loose talk before.
15. Loose morals