Lose vs Failure - What's the difference?
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To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability due to unfortunate or unknown circumstances, events or reasons.
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, title= To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; to go astray from.
* Shakespeare
To have (an organ) removed from one's body, especially by accident.
To fail to win (a game, competition, trial, etc).
* Dryden
To shed (weight).
To experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend).
To be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer.
To cause (somebody) to be unable to follow or trace one any longer.
(informal) To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate.
Of a clock, to run slower than expected.
To cause (someone) the loss of something; to deprive of.
* Baxter
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 556:
To fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss.
(archaic) To cause to part with; to deprive of.
* Sir W. Temple
(obsolete) Fame, renown; praise.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.12:
State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
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, title= An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure or incapable of success.
Termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function, breakdown.
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As a verb lose
is .As a noun failure is
state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.lose
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) losen, from (etyl) .Verb
citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost , by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
Norwich 2-1 Nott'm Forest, passage=Forest, who lost striker Kris Boyd to injury seconds before half-time, produced little after the break, with a Tyson sliced shot from 12 yards their only opportunity of note.}}
- I lost my way in the forest.
- He hath lost his fellows.
- I fought the battle bravely which I lost , / And lost it but to Macedonians.
- O false heart! thou hadst almost betrayed me to eternal flames, and lost me this glory.
- This lost Catholicism any semblance of a claim to special status, and also highlighted the gains which other religious formations had derived from the Revolution.
- I lost a part of what he said.
- How should you go about to lose him a wife he loves with so much passion?
Usage notes
* Do not confuse lose with loose .Synonyms
* (sense, cause to cease to be in one's possession) leave behind, mislay * * drop, shed * * * ditch, drop, dump, get rid of, jettison * * (last)Antonyms
* (sense, cause to cease to be in one's possession) come across, discover, find, gain, acquire, procure, get, pick up, snag * win * gain, put on * * find * pick up * (fail to be the winner) come first, winDerived terms
* lose heart * lose it * lose one's cool * lose one's head * lose one's life * lose one's lunch * lose one's marbles * lose one's mind * lose one's patience * lose one's rag * lose one's temper * lose one's way * lose out * lose patience * lose time * no love lostEtymology 2
From (etyl) (los), (loos), from (etyl) .Noun
- That much he feared least reprochfull blame / With foule dishonour him mote blot therefore; / Besides the losse of so much loos and fame […].
failure
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(wikipedia failure)Noun
(en noun)Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool, passage=For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.}}
François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election, passage=Sarkozy's total will be seen as a personal failure . It is the first time an outgoing president has failed to win a first-round vote in the past 50 years and makes it harder for Sarkozy to regain momentum.}}
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}