Noun

(en noun)

A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.

In a two-horse race there is always one winner and one loser .

He was always a good loser .

Something of poor quality.

That dictionary is a loser !

A person who is frequently unsuccessful in life.

That guy is a born loser !

I’m a constant loser in love.

(derogatory) A contemptible or unfashionable person.

That person is a loser !

One who or that which loses something, such as extra weight, car keys, etc.

* 1999 , Larry Medsker, ?Lakhmi C. Jain, Recurrent Neural Networks: Design and Applications (ISBN 0849371813), page 192:

Another way to speed search (in general) is to order or bias the hypothesis space based on some heuristic. Suppose you are a habitual car key loser and that you keep track of where your keys turn up after each search.

* 2004 , Marianna S. Katona, Tales from the Berlin Wall: Recollections of Frequent Crossings (ISBN 3833404396):

But a West German reporting a lost passport in East Berlin during the years of the Wall was treated to a criminal investigation, with the passport loser as the potential criminal.

* 2005', Maggie Greenwood-Robinson, ''The Biggest '''Loser : The Weight Loss Program to Transform Your Body, Health and Life (ISBN 13: 978-1-59486-384-4)

* 2009 , Jane Bryant Quinn, Making the Most of Your Money Now

You're counting on this insurance company to pay you a check many years in the future. But for some companies, disability coverage has been a money loser .

* 2010 , Cutting Myself in Half: 150 Pounds Lost, One Byte at a Time (ISBN 0757313590), page 109:

You have to think of yourself as an already amazing person who's hiding behind extra weight—a superhero in a disguise. If you follow the program, change the message from “I'm a big loser” to “I'm a big weight loser .”

Noun

(en noun)

A circular device attached to a door, the rotation of which permits the unlatching of the door.

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, author=(Henry Petroski) , title=Opening Doors , volume=100, issue=2, page=112-3 , magazine= citation , passage=A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.}}