Lose vs Spend - What's the difference?
lose | spend |
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:
To pay out (money).
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, title= To bestow; to employ; often with on'' or ''upon .
* (George Herbert) (1593-1633)
(label) To squander.
To exhaust, to wear out.
* (Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
To consume, to use up (time).
* 1661 , ,
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, title= To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
(label) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
To be diffused; to spread.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
(label) To break ground; to continue working.
Amount spent (during a period), expenditure
(pluralized) expenditures; money or pocket money.
* {{quote-news
, date = 2011-02-01
, first = Ami
, last = Sedghi
, title = Record breaking January transfers: find the spends by club
, newspaper = The Guardian
, url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/feb/01/january-transfer-spend-record-high-torres
, passage = Total January spends by year
}}
* {{quote-web
, year = 2011
, title = Council spending over £500
, site = Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council
, url = http://www.rochdale.gov.uk/business_and_employment/tenders_and_contracts/council_spending_over_£500.aspx
, accessdate = 2012-01-26
, passage = The spends have been made by our strategic partners ...
}}
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Vaginal discharge
As verbs the difference between lose and spend
is that lose is while spend is to pay out (money).As a noun spend is
amount spent (during a period), expenditure.lose
English
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 […].
spend
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Verb
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}
No hiding place, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}
- Iam never loath / To spend my judgment.
- their bodies spent with long labour and thirst
The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.}}
Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.}}
- The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air.
- The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes.
Derived terms
* spending money * spendthrift * spent forceNoun
(en noun)- I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.