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anglais > français
loose
1. adj. Lâche, desserré, dénoué, détaché.
This wheelbarrow has a loose wheel.
The dog is loose again.
2. adj. Détaché, volant, en vrac.
You can buy apples in a pack, but they are cheaper loose.
A loose sheet of paper. — Une feuille volante.
3. adj. Ample, vaste
I wear loose clothes when it is hot.
4. adj. Graphie fautive de lose.
anglais > anglais
loose
1. v. To let loose, to free from restraints.
2. v. To unfasten, to loosen.
3. v. To make less tight, to loosen.
4. v. (intransitive) Of a grip or hold, to let go.
5. v. (archery) to shoot (an arrow)
6. v. (obsolete) To set sail.
7. v. (obsolete) To solve; to interpret.
8. adj. Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
This wheelbarrow has a loose wheel.
9. adj. Not held or packaged together.
You can buy apples in a pack, but they are cheaper loose.
10. adj. Not under control.
The dog is loose again.
11. adj. Not fitting closely
I wear loose clothes when it is hot.
12. adj. Not compact.
It is difficult walking on loose gravel.
a cloth of loose texture
13. adj. Relaxed.
She danced with a loose flowing movement.
14. adj. Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate.
a loose way of reasoning
15. adj. Indiscreet.
Loose talk costs lives.
16. adj. (dated) Free from moral restraint; immoral, unchaste.
17. adj. (not comparable, sports) Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.
He caught an elbow going after a loose ball.
The puck was momentarily loose right in front of the net.
18. adj. (dated) Not costive; having lax bowels.
19. n. (archery) The release of an arrow.
20. n. (obsolete) A state of laxity or indulgence; unrestrained freedom, abandonment.
21. n. (rugby) All play other than set pieces (scrums and line-outs).
22. n. Freedom from restraint.
23. n. A letting go; discharge.
24. interj. (archery) begin shooting; release your arrows
25. v. misspelling of lose
I'm going to loose this game.
français > anglais
lâche
1. adj. loose, slack
2. adj. cowardly, low
3. adj. (Quebec, French Canada) lazy
4. n. coward

Exemples de phrases

I don't like loose ends.      Je n'aime pas les détails. I don't understand why this keeps coming loose.      Je ne comprends pas pourquoi ceci se desserre toujours. That guy has a screw loose!      Il manque une case à ce gars ! He let the dog loose in the garden.      Il a lâché le chien dans le jardin. Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.      La poésie n'est pas un relâchement de l'émotion mais une évasion hors de l'émotion ; ce n'est pas l'expression de la personnalité mais une évasion hors de la personnalité.

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