Looted vs Loosed - What's the difference?
looted | loosed |
(loot)
A kind of scoop or ladle, chiefly used to remove the scum from brine-pans in saltworks.
The act of plundering.
plunder, booty, especially from a ransacked city.
(colloquial, US) any prize or profit received for free, especially Christmas presents
*1956 "Free Loot for Children" (LIFE Magazine, 23 April 1956,
(video games) Items dropped from defeated enemies in video games and online games.
to steal, especially as part of war, riot or other group violence.
*1833 "Gunganarian, the leader of the Chooars, continues his system of looting and murder", The asiatic Journal and monthly register for British India and its Dependencies Black, Parbury & Allen,
(video games) to examine the corpse of a fallen enemy for loot.
(loose)
To let loose, to free from restraints.
* Bible, Matthew xxi. 2
To unfasten, to loosen.
To make less tight, to loosen.
Of a grip or hold, to let go.
(archery) to shoot (an arrow)
(obsolete) To set sail.
* 1611 :
(obsolete) To solve; to interpret.
Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
Not held or packaged together.
Not under control.
* Addison
Not fitting closely
Not compact.
* Milton
Relaxed.
Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate.
* Whewell
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(dated) Free from moral restraint; immoral, unchaste.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I:
* Spenser
* Sir Walter Scott
(not comparable, sports) Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.
* {{quote-news
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, date=September 28
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(dated) Not costive; having lax bowels.
(archery) The release of an arrow.
(obsolete) A state of laxity or indulgence; unrestrained freedom, abandonment.
(sports)
* 2011 , Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15210221.stm]
Freedom from restraint.
* Addison
A letting go; discharge.
As verbs the difference between looted and loosed
is that looted is (loot) while loosed is (loose).looted
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *loot
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) loet, loete .Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
Attested 1788, a loan from Hindustani . The verb is from 1842. Fallows (1885) records both the noun and the verb as "Recent. Anglo-Indian". In origin only applicable to plundering in warfare. A figurative meaning developed in American English in the 1920s, resulting in a generalized meaning by the 1950sNoun
(-)- the loot of an ancient city
p. 131)
Synonyms
* swagVerb
(en verb)p. 66.
Anagrams
* *References
*Samuel Fallows, The progressive dictionary of the English language: a supplementary wordbook to all leading dictionaries of the United States and Great Britain (1885). English terms derived from Hindi English terms derived from Urdu ----loosed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * *loose
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) , whence also (m), (m), via Ancient Greek.Verb
(loos)- Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them unto me.
- Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.
- (Spenser)
Synonyms
* (let loose) free, release * (unfasten) loosen, unbind, undo, unfasten, untie * (make less tight) loosen, relax, slacken * (of grip or hold) let go, release * (archery) fire, shootAntonyms
* (let loose) bind, constrain * (unfasten) bind, fasten, tie * (make less tight) tighten * (of grip or hold) tighten * (archery) fastAdjective
(er)- This wheelbarrow has a loose wheel.
- You can buy apples in a pack, but they are cheaper loose .
- The dog is loose again.
- Now I stand / Loose of my vow; but who knows Cato's thoughts?
- I wear loose clothes when it is hot.
- It is difficult walking on loose gravel.
- a cloth of loose texture
- with horse and chariots ranked in loose array
- She danced with a loose flowing movement.
- a loose way of reasoning
- The comparison employed must be considered rather as a loose analogy than as an exact scientific explanation.
- Loose talk costs lives.
- In all these he was much and deeply read; / But not a page of any thing that's loose , / Or hints continuation of the species, / Was ever suffer'd, lest he should grow vicious.
- loose ladies in delight
- the loose morality which he had learned
- He caught an elbow going after a loose ball.
- The puck was momentarily loose right in front of the net.
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- (John Locke)
Synonyms
* (not fixed in place tightly or firmly) * (not held or packaged together) separate, unpackaged * (not bound or tethered or leashed) free, untethered * (not fitting closely) baggy * (not compact) * (relaxed) loose-limbed, relaxed * (indiscreet) indiscreet * (promiscuous) polygamous, promiscuous, slutty, tarty, whorishAntonyms
* (not fixed in place tightly or firmly) * (not held or packaged together) packaged * (not bound or tethered or leashed) bound, leashed, tethered, tied, tied up * (not fitting closely) close-fitting, snug, tight * (not compact) compact, firm * (relaxed) tense, tensed * (indiscreet) discreet * (promiscuous) faithful, monogamousDerived terms
* break loose * cast loose * cut loose * hang loose * let loose * loosen * loose coupling * loose lip * on the loose * stay loose * turn looseNoun
(en noun)- The defeat will leave manager Martin Johnson under pressure after his gamble of pairing Jonny Wilkinson and Toby Flood at 10 and 12 failed to ignite the England back line, while his forwards were repeatedly second best at the set-piece and in the loose .
- (Prior)
- Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow.
- (Ben Jonson)
Derived terms
* give a looseAntonyms
* fastAnagrams
*Etymology 2
Verb
(head)- I'm going to loose this game.