Loosening vs Losing - What's the difference?
loosening | losing |
The act of making something looser.
* 2013 , Michael Scott, Religious Language (page 169)
That loses or lose, or has or have lost.
The act by which something is lost.
* 1842 , The United States Magazine and Democratic Review (page 339)
As verbs the difference between loosening and losing
is that loosening is present participle of lang=en while losing is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between loosening and losing
is that loosening is the act of making something looser while losing is the act by which something is lost.As an adjective losing is
that loses or lose, or has or have lost.loosening
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Turning to metaphor, the loosenings involved in metaphorical interpretation tend not to be pure but to involve a change that results in the extension of the loosened concept overlapping with but not including all of the denotations of the pre-loosened concept.
Anagrams
*losing
English
Adjective
(-)- Being on the losing team is disappointing.
Noun
(en noun)- We conceive that an alternation of such losings and regainings will continue to be presented in England, until the whole business is set on a new and more stable basis by a revolution which shall not be moral only.
