Not fast or confined; not fastened; unattached; free from restraint or obligation; not bound to another or together; without bonds, ties, or attachments; at liberty: as, loose sheets of a book; loose tresses of hair; loose change in one's pocket; to break loose; to be set loose; to cut loose from bad habits.
Not tight or close; without close union or adjustment; slightly or slackly joined: as, a loose knot; loose garments; a loose league or confederation.
Not dense or compact; having interstices or intervals; open or expanded: as, cloth of loose texture; a loose order of battle.
Not concise or condensed; wanting precision or connection of parts; diffuse; rambling: as, a loose style of writing; loose reasoning; a loose array of facts.
Not exact in meaning; indefinite; vague; uncertain.
Lax; relaxed; slack; wanting retentiveness or power of restraint: as, loose bowels; loose ties; a loose bond of union.
Lax in character or quality; not strict or exact; careless; slovenly: as, a loose construction of the constitution; a loose mode of conducting business; loose morality.
Lax in principle or conduct; free from moral restraint; wanton; dissolute; unchaste: as, a loose woman; loose behavior.
Disengaged; free; independent: with from or of.
Seemingly communicative; frank; open; candid.
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Freedom from restraint; license.
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The act of letting go or letting fly; discharge; shot.
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A solution of a problem or explanation of a difficulty.
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The privilege of turning out cattle on commons.
In archery, to release (the bowstring) after the bow is drawn, thus discharging the arrow.
In chem., not combined with anything else: as, carbon dioxid loose in the blood. The word free is more commonly used in this sense.
In geology, incoherent, as unconsolidated sands.
In coal-mining, free at the ends or sides: applied to a working-place when the coal has been previously mined on both sides: as, loose at one end, loose at one side, etc.
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In Rugby foot-ball, that part of the play in which the ball travels freely from player to player, as distinguished from the scrimmage.
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In mining, the end of a shift. Also loosing-time. When the workmen leave, the pit is said to be ‘loosed out.’
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In archery: The act of releasing the bow-string and discharging the arrow.
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The mode of performing this act, which differs among different peoples.
To make loose or free; release from that which restrains, confines, or hampers; set at liberty; disengage; discharge from constraint, obligation, or penalty.
To disengage the hold of; undo; unfasten; untie.
To relax; loosen; make or let loose, partially or wholly: as, to loose sail; to loose one's hold or grasp.
To solve; explain.
Synonyms To unfasten, let go, detach, disconnect, absolve, acquit.
To perform the act of loosening; make or set loose something; let go a hold, unmoor a ship, shoot an arrow, or the like.