Lose vs Hose - What's the difference?
lose | hose |
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:
(countable) A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.
(uncountable) A stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights.
(obsolete) Close-fitting trousers or breeches, reaching to the knee.
* Bible, Daniel iii. 21
* Shakespeare
To water or spray with a hose.
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To provide with hose (garment)
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, author=Pierce Pungent
, title=Men and Manners
, date=July to December
, volume=X
, page=416
, magazine=Fraser's magazine for town and country
Who dwell in towns where he pursued the chase;
The men degenerate shirted, cloaked, and hosed -
Nose and eyes only to the day exposed}} To attack and kill somebody, usually using a firearm.
* {{quote-book
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, author=John R. Bruning
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To trick or deceive.
* {{quote-book
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, author=Keath Fraser
, title=Popular anatomy
, publisher=The Porcupine's Quill
(computing) To break a computer so everything needs to be reinstalled; to wipe all files.
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, date=Spring 2006
, author=Joel Durham Jr.
, title=Pimp Out Win XP with TweakUI
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, issn=1522-4279
As a verb lose
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) losen, from (etyl) .Verb
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- 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 […].
hose
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(wikipedia hose)Noun
- These men were bound in their coats, their hosen , and their hats, and their other garments.
- His youthful hose , well saved, a world too wide / For his shrunk shank.
Usage notes
* (garment covering legs ) Formerly a male garment covering the lower body, with the upper body covered by a doublet. By the 16th century hose had separated into two garments, stocken and breeches. Since the 1920's, hose refers mostly to women's stockings or pantyhoseDerived terms
* hose clamp * hose clipVerb
(hos)citation, isbn=9780711209886 , page=83 , passage=Only days before the garden opens, the concrete is hosed down with a high-pressure jet and scrubbed.}}
citation, passage=The mighty mass of many a mingled race,
Who dwell in towns where he pursued the chase;
The men degenerate shirted, cloaked, and hosed -
Nose and eyes only to the day exposed}}
citation, isbn=9781574886948 , page=136 , passage=His guns hosed down the vessel's decks, sweeping them clear of sailors, blowing holes in the bulkheads, and smashing gun positions.}}
citation, isbn=9780889841499 , page=458 , passage=Bartlett elaborated on what had happened at the warehouse, saying he thought Chandar was supposed to have advised, not hosed him.}}
citation, passage=There aren't any tricky hexadecimal calculations to snare your brain, nor is there a need to worry about hosing the registry for all eternity.}}