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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
loose
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a loose alliance (=not strong)
▪ A loose alliance of opposition groups formed in 1990.
a loose connection (also a tenuous connectionformal) (= one that is not strong, close, or obvious)
▪ There seemed to be only a loose connection between the questions and the answers.
a loose cough (=one that produces liquid)
loose dirt (=that you can brush off easily)
▪ Keep your pack clean by brushing off any loose dirt after use.
loose morals (=low standards of sexual behaviour – often used humorously)
▪ a young woman of loose morals
loose
▪ She tied the belt in a loose knot around her waist.
loose
▪ I had a loose tooth.
soft/loose curls (=gentle curves)
▪ long brown hair in soft curls
turned loose
▪ There are some criminals who cannot be turned loose onto the streets.
work (its way) loose
▪ One of the screws must have worked loose.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
too
▪ Both Hayman's suggestions were too loose and half-baked for a man of his devious cunning to consider seriously for a moment.
▪ Some feel that the school structure is too loose, allowing children too much freedom when choosing learning tasks.
▪ Her view of the West is that society's bonds are too loose there.
▪ The beds on Disturbed are all out of tune, too taut or too loose.
▪ So you must be relaxed to enable you to groove, but not so relaxed as to be too loose.
▪ They hung strangely, too loose, yet too short as well.
▪ They are usually coupled with pain but that correlation is too loose for reliability.
▪ However, inflation broke rank in the mid-1980s, when monetary policy was allowed to become too loose.
very
▪ The least sociable auk, breeding in very loose colonies, in crevices of cliffs and rocks.
▪ The colonial bonds between its constituents are very loose.
▪ M39 is very loose, but sufficiently condensed to make it obvious, particularly in view of the characteristic pattern of its leading stars.
▪ These distinctions are necessarily very loose and easily blurred when actual diagnosis is attempted.
▪ They have even been mistaken for a very loose cluster, though in fact they are not really associated with each other.
▪ The very loose cluster C 399 can be found by using Alpha and Beta Sagittæ as pointers.
▪ However, both arguments are spurious, for there is a very loose connection between tense and time.
▪ It doesn't have to be a close fit, initially you want a very loose fitting so there's a draught.
■ NOUN
alliance
▪ The Empire, a loose alliance of city-states and provinces owing allegiance to its Emperor, and the kingdom of Bretonnia.
▪ Some are loose alliances that use new technology to spread ideas and mobilise supporters.
ball
▪ The great satisfaction was that the aspects we concentrated on in training - defence and winning loose ball - worked out well.
▪ But Abdur-Rahim missed an off-balance shot and Jelani McCoy grabbed the loose ball.
▪ He went down on a loose ball and my boot landed on him.
▪ He lost the ball when he hit the turf but recovered the loose ball.
▪ Henderson scooped up the loose ball to score.
▪ The South-West's late try came when Clough was sent a hospital pass and Fallon booted the loose ball over the line.
▪ Three minutes later Sharp was denied by Chamberlain, but Milligan seized on the loose ball to score.
box
▪ Reminding himself that there was nothing to fear he set off, past the loose boxes with their heaps of shabby treasure.
▪ To his left was a long, shadowy, cobbled passage running beside what looked like barred loose boxes.
▪ The crammed loose boxes to his right seemed more menacing, as though the ugliest objects had been banished to this unvisited dungeon.
▪ The mule shook its head at Granny Weatherwax when they arrived at its loose box.
▪ The men slept ten to a box on stone floors and all companies were allotted loose boxes.
▪ William Springett also built a coach-house for two carriages and loose boxes under a crowning pediment.
cannon
▪ Of course the Palace can't afford to leave her as a loose cannon.
change
▪ Last night his hourly wage, about £8 in loose change was nicked from under his nose by scavenging ragamuffins.
▪ I fished around in my handbag, coming up with some loose change.
▪ A sharp eyed youngster should have no difficulty in spotting the loose change, that so often litter such areas.
▪ Arnold bought the club out of loose change.
▪ She would bring her loose change to Rachaela for translation into fifty-pence pieces and pounds.
▪ Bunny felt in his pocket, fiddling for loose change.
▪ Carry some loose change to make emergency public telephone calls.
▪ Pockets were emptied of loose change, parcels scanned as if for a malignant tumour and handbags rifled for evidence of evil intent.
earth
▪ Max leaned forward and gathered up a handful of loose earth and scattered it on the coffin.
▪ Walker Evans records a roughly piled grave of loose earth topped with the impermanent and unstable memorial of a dinner plate.
▪ Panic-stricken, he clutched at the loose earth at the sides of the pit and pulled himself to an upright position.
end
▪ They are all currently at a loose end, and loose ends are so easily snipped off.
▪ He was also at loose ends emotionally.
▪ There were still loose ends in her working week so her sister Sarah took it upon herself to tie them up.
▪ Rhoda had died a year or two ago, and we had heard that Ralph was at loose ends.
▪ One's best friend's cousin's daughter might well be at a loose end after leaving art college.
▪ He could not tell whether they were broken ends, or perhaps the loose ends from underwater knots that had come undone.
▪ Joey Bonanza doesn't like loose ends.
▪ The loose end was not splintered and cracked, but neatly finished.
federation
▪ A new constitution was adopted transforming a loose federation of affiliated organisations into a centralised national political party.
▪ They were something else, a loose federation of animals and plants united into an emergent superorganism exhibiting distinctive behavior.
▪ The Labour Party was ceasing to be a loose federation of political and industrial groups.
▪ This was a proposal for a loose federation of locally based groups.
fit
▪ In my own travels, I found a loose fit between learning that occurred at the workplace and in schools.
group
▪ Most other firms are also members of a looser group of some sort.
interpretation
▪ Car, she thought, was a loose interpretation.
▪ Here the somewhat looser interpretation of unity was used. with stress on the humanity side and moral choices.
soil
▪ The animal was attracted by the smell of the explosive and pawed at loose soil beneath a tree.
▪ Magnolias fare best in acidic, loose soil.
▪ The solid rocks have been weathered to form loose soil.
▪ Struggling out much later from the weight of corpses, crawling out of the loose soil.
▪ You should never wash roots before storing, but always gently rub off any loose soil.
▪ Remove any heavy loose soil by scraping.
▪ Use bulb-fibre, peat or a loose soil mixed with compost.
stone
▪ Boldly he kicked loose stones off the ledges and heard them clatter into the silence below.
▪ Then they were driving over rough ground, loose stones popping under the tyres.
▪ There aren't any loose stones.
▪ My brain feels like a loose stone in a dried leather pouch.
▪ I've been trying to find loose stones again.
▪ He moved lightly over the rough ground, dodging round bushes, avoiding every loose stone and broken twig.
▪ There is only one tall stone standing now and no white cross on the cairn-like mound of loose stones.
▪ Her left foot skittered on the loose stones, and she wobbled again, dangerously.
stool
▪ Sometimes parents had stopped the laxative because the stool withholding manoeuvres or screaming did not stop as soon as loose stools were induced.
▪ Warning: Consumers over the age of 16 are likely to experience severe indigestion, heartburn, regret and loose stools.
▪ It needs time to regain its normal elasticity and reduce in size so a period of loose stools is often desirable.
▪ Warning: Eaten in sufficient amounts, this product ensures bad breath, probable indigestion and pungent, loose stools.
▪ Parents may interpret this as very loose stools.
▪ Patients with active colitis had clinical symptoms of urgency, loose stools, abdominal pain, and blood in the stool.
woman
▪ The loosest woman is a stickler for etiquette and elocution.
▪ She said she was not a loose woman but that she had blood in her veins, not Sour milk.
▪ Here he encountered the bars and loose women and dance halls that would soon make him a famous artist.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
all hell broke loose
▪ Debbie told him to shut up, he slapped her, and then all hell broke loose.
▪ When a fan jumped onto the stage, all hell broke loose.
▪ A sparrow hawk appeared - and all hell broke loose!
▪ And then, all hell broke loose.
▪ But then all hell broke loose, geologically speaking, as increasing numbers of sources for the rock were discovered.
▪ Journalists woke him up in his bed with the news and, as I suspected, all hell broke loose.
▪ Not at all bad considering that all hell broke loose in September and the City was rocked by events outside its control.
▪ She started to strip off, all hell broke loose and he bolted while plain-clothes officers moved in to stage a cover-up.
▪ What actually happened was that I was as drunk as anybody in the barracks the night all hell broke loose.
▪ When the story was leaked to the press, all hell broke loose.
come open/undone/loose etc
▪ As she reached the doors they came open, the button pressed by two people outside.
▪ His heart felt it would come loose in his body, so wildly was it beating.
▪ Some ropes had come loose and were swinging wildly in the wind.
▪ Then she felt something on her arm and discovered her scarf had come undone.
▪ Then sprinkle on water and re-trowel in come loose-use an emulsion paint brush.
▪ Think of all the things that come loose around the house.
▪ When the Thayer principalship came open in the summer of 1981, Littky applied and reentered the educational world.
have a screw loose
▪ "Fernando can be really weird sometimes." "Yeah, he's got a screw loose, no question."
play fast and loose with sth
▪ And there is his willingness to play fast and loose with the facts.
▪ Besides, it is playing fast and loose with the statistics to take 1981 as the baseline for the Government's claims.
▪ In what follows, I shall play fast and loose with these words and the subtle distinctions between them.
▪ They probably see it as a place where government plays fast and loose with tax dollars.
▪ To say that the Wattersons had played fast and loose with their investors' capital was an understatement.
set sb free/loose
▪ After six years in prison, Louis was set free.
tear loose
▪ At what stage did her briefs tear loose?
▪ He had heard the pounding, too, and thought a storm shutter had torn loose.
▪ In recent months they have begun to tear loose from this platform.
▪ One error and he would have been torn loose and hurled overboard to be smothered by the driving spray.
▪ One of the clouds over Bald Hill tore loose and floated down the sky toward us.
▪ The great ice bridge had torn loose from its foundations and was starting to move downstream toward the Whirlpool.
▪ The piece of paper tore loose.
▪ Tightness throughout the abdomen making it impossible to cough or strain for fear that something will burst or will tear loose.
tie up loose ends
▪ His new movie will tie up some of the loose ends from the last one.
▪ There are still a few loose ends to tie up before we have an agreement.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a loose group of local organizations
▪ a loose interpretation of the law
▪ a loose screw
▪ a loose tooth
▪ a loose woman
▪ A looser interpretation of the law would lead to more convictions.
▪ In hot weather, loose cotton clothes are more comfortable.
▪ linen cloth with a loose weave
▪ My shoelaces are loose.
▪ One of Sean's front teeth is loose.
▪ One of the hinges on the box was coming loose.
▪ She wore a long, loose linen jacket.
▪ Some of the floorboards are loose and they creak when you walk on them.
▪ The garage claimed it was just a loose connection.
▪ The guitar strings were loose, but none were broken.
▪ The term "empire' is often loosely applied to a federation of states.
▪ The title is a loose translation of the Korean original.
▪ The top fitted me, but the shorts were a little loose round the waist.
▪ There must be a wire loose, because this light isn't working.
▪ This is only a loose translation of the original paper.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A sparrow hawk appeared - and all hell broke loose!
▪ He didn't bathe, his teeth got loose.
▪ It was as though she'd been let loose from shackles she hadn't even known she'd been wearing.
▪ Joey Bonanza doesn't like loose ends.
▪ Searching the cloaks turns up a few loose buttons and an Imperial silver shilling. 20.
▪ There are two classes of relationships; loose coupling and tight coupling.
▪ They saw themselves as having a consultative decision-making style, using relatively loose follow-up, and being very open to persuasion.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
cut
▪ To cut it loose now could be to see it sink.
▪ Using his one good hand, he inched down to Angerer and with his ice axe cut him loose.
let
▪ He seemed to have forgotten about only letting me loose on water.
▪ The last time the siren had been let loose was just two months before.
▪ And there was absolutely no reason why a single cancer cell should ever be let loose in any part of our body.
▪ He said as much when he finally let things loose.
▪ And it was Alec who let them loose.
▪ We are about to make machines as complex as grasshoppers and let them loose in the world.
▪ I let the girl loose and pushed her towards my wife.
▪ As if all that were not trouble enough, the landlord lets a goat loose in the flat.
turn
▪ It must be something serious to turn the students loose on it.
▪ With that he turns them loose to use the field manuals around the room to pick an animal to study.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
all hell broke loose
▪ Debbie told him to shut up, he slapped her, and then all hell broke loose.
▪ When a fan jumped onto the stage, all hell broke loose.
▪ A sparrow hawk appeared - and all hell broke loose!
▪ And then, all hell broke loose.
▪ But then all hell broke loose, geologically speaking, as increasing numbers of sources for the rock were discovered.
▪ Journalists woke him up in his bed with the news and, as I suspected, all hell broke loose.
▪ Not at all bad considering that all hell broke loose in September and the City was rocked by events outside its control.
▪ She started to strip off, all hell broke loose and he bolted while plain-clothes officers moved in to stage a cover-up.
▪ What actually happened was that I was as drunk as anybody in the barracks the night all hell broke loose.
▪ When the story was leaked to the press, all hell broke loose.
have a screw loose
▪ "Fernando can be really weird sometimes." "Yeah, he's got a screw loose, no question."
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Police fired tear gas and loosed police dogs.
▪ The recent court case has loosed a number of racist attacks.
▪ The tanker loosed 13,000 gallons of pesticide into the river.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He clambered forward, loosed the ropes, and threw his weight on the sail to bring it dawn.
▪ The internet has opened a Pandora's box of threats: its demons have been loosed on us all.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Loose

Loose \Loose\, n.

  1. Freedom from restraint. [Obs.]
    --Prior.

  2. A letting go; discharge.
    --B. Jonson.

    To give a loose, to give freedom.

    Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow.
    --Addison.

Loose

Loose \Loose\ (l[=oo]s), v. n. [imp. & p. p. Loosed (l[=oo]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Loosing.] [From Loose, a.]

  1. To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.

    Canst thou . . . loose the bands of Orion ?
    --Job. xxxviii. 31.

    Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them unto me.
    --Matt. xxi.

  2. 2. To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit.

    Art thou loosed from a wife ? seek not a wife.
    --1 Cor. vii. 27.

    Whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
    --Matt. xvi. 19.

  3. To relax; to loosen; to make less strict.

    The joints of his loins were loosed.
    --Dan. v. 6.

  4. To solve; to interpret. [Obs.]
    --Spenser.

Loose

Loose \Loose\ (l[=oo]s), a. [Compar. Looser (l[=oo]s"[~e]r); superl. Loosest.] [OE. loos, lous, laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. le['a]s false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. l["o]s, Goth. laus, and E. lose. [root]127. See Lose, and cf. Leasing falsehood.]

  1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.

    Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat.
    --Shak.

  2. Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc.; -- with from or of.

    Now I stand Loose of my vow; but who knows Cato's thoughts ?
    --Addison.

  3. Not tight or close; as, a loose garment.

  4. Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture.

    With horse and chariots ranked in loose array.
    --Milton.

  5. Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning.

    The comparison employed . . . must be considered rather as a loose analogy than as an exact scientific explanation.
    --Whewel.

  6. Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right.

    The loose morality which he had learned.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  7. Unconnected; rambling.

    Vario spends whole mornings in running over loose and unconnected pages.
    --I. Watts.

  8. Lax; not costive; having lax bowels.
    --Locke.

  9. Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman.

    Loose ladies in delight.
    --Spenser.

  10. Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle.
    --Dryden.

    At loose ends, not in order; in confusion; carelessly managed.

    Fast and loose. See under Fast.

    To break loose. See under Break.

    Loose pulley. (Mach.) See Fast and loose pulleys, under Fast.

    To let loose, to free from restraint or confinement; to set at liberty.

Loose

Loose \Loose\, v. i. To set sail. [Obs.]
--Acts xiii. 13.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
loose

early 13c, "to set free," from loose (adj.). Meaning "to undo, untie, unfasten" is 14c. Related: Loosed; loosing.

loose

early 13c., "not securely fixed;" c.1300, "unbound," from Old Norse lauss "loose, free, vacant, dissolute," cognate with Old English leas "devoid of, false, feigned, incorrect," from Proto-Germanic *lausaz (cognates: Danish løs "loose, untied," Swedish lös "loose, movable, detached," Middle Dutch, German los "loose, free," Gothic laus "empty, vain"), from PIE *leu- "to loosen, divide, cut apart" (see lose). Meaning "not clinging, slack" is mid-15c. Meaning "not bundled" is late 15c. Sense of "unchaste, immoral" is recorded from late 15c. Meaning "at liberty, free from obligation" is 1550s. Sense of "rambling, disconnected" is from 1680s. Figurative sense of loose cannon was in use by 1896, probably from celebrated image in a popular story by Hugo:\n\nYou can reason with a bull dog, astonish a bull, fascinate a boa, frighten a tiger, soften a lion; no resource with such a monster as a loose cannon. You cannot kill it, it is dead; and at the same time it lives. It lives with a sinister life which comes from the infinite. It is moved by the ship, which is moved by the sea, which is moved by the wind. This exterminator is a plaything.

[Victor Hugo, "Ninety Three"]

\nLoose end in reference to something unfinished, undecided, unguarded is from 1540s; to be at loose ends is from 1807. Phrase on the loose "free, unrestrained" is from 1749 (upon the loose).
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Wiktionary
loose

Etymology 1

  1. 1 Not fixed in place tightly or firmly. 2 Not held or packaged together. 3 Not under control. 4 Not fitting closely 5 Not compact. 6 relaxed. 7 Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate. 8 indiscreet#English. 9 (context dated English) Free from moral restraint; immoral, unchaste. 10 (context not comparable sports English) Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game. interj. (context archery English) begin shooting; release your arrows n. 1 (context archery English) The release of an arrow. 2 (context obsolete English) A state of laxity or indulgence; unrestrained freedom, abandonment. 3 (context sports English) (rfdef: English) 4 Freedom from restraint. 5 A letting go; discharge. v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To let loose, to free from restraints. 2 (context transitive English) To unfasten, to loosen. 3 (context transitive English) To make less tight, to loosen. 4 (context intransitive English) Of a grip or hold, to let go. 5 (context archery English) to shoot (an arrow) 6 (context obsolete English) To set sail. 7 (context obsolete English) To solve; to interpret. Etymology 2

    vb. (misspelling of lose English)

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WordNet
loose

adv. without restraint; "cows in India are running loose" [syn: free]

loose

  1. v. grant freedom to; free from confinement [syn: free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen] [ant: confine]

  2. turn loose or free from restraint; "let loose mines"; "Loose terrible plagues upon humanity" [syn: unleash, let loose]

  3. make loose or looser; "loosen the tension on a rope" [syn: loosen] [ant: stiffen]

  4. become loose or looser or less tight; "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed" [syn: loosen, relax] [ant: stiffen]

loose

  1. adj. not restrained or confined or attached; "a pocket full of loose bills"; "knocked the ball loose"; "got loose from his attacker"

  2. not compact or dense in structure or arrangement; "loose gravel" [ant: compact]

  3. (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player; "a loose ball"

  4. not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting; "loose clothing"; "the large shoes were very loose" [ant: tight]

  5. not officially recognized or controlled; "an informal agreement"; "a loose organization of the local farmers" [syn: informal]

  6. not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem" [syn: free, liberal]

  7. emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels" [syn: lax]

  8. not affixed; "the stamp came loose" [syn: unaffixed] [ant: affixed]

  9. not tense or taut; "the old man's skin hung loose and gray"; "slack and wrinkled skin"; "slack sails"; "a slack rope" [syn: slack]

  10. (of textures) full of small openings or gaps; "an open texture"; "a loose weave" [syn: open]

  11. not fixed firmly or tightly; "the bolts became loose over time"; "a loose chair leg"; "loose bricks"

  12. lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; "idle talk"; "a loose tongue" [syn: idle]

  13. not carefully arranged in a package; "a box of loose nails"

  14. freely producing mucus; "a loose phlegmy cough"

  15. having escaped, especially from confinement; "a convict still at large"; "searching for two escaped prisoners"; "dogs loose on the streets"; "criminals on the loose in the neighborhood" [syn: at large(p), at liberty(p), escaped, on the loose(p)]

  16. casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior" [syn: easy, light, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton]

  17. not bound or fastened or gathered together; "loose pages"; "loose papers"

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Wikipedia
Loose

Loose may refer to:

Loose (song)
Loose (B'z album)

Loose is the eighth studio album by Japanese rock band B'z. The album sold 1,336,150 copies in its first week, becoming the band's highest debut for a studio album. In total over 3,003,210 copies were sold, making it the band's highest selling studio album.

One of the album's standout tracks is a blues-flavored remake of "Bad Communication," as well as a more energetic version of the hit " Negai".

Loose (Therapy? song)

"Loose" is a song by Therapy? and a single released on 17 July 1995 on A&M Records. The song is featured on the Infernal Love album. The single reached number 25 on the UK Singles Chart, and number 23 on the Irish Singles Chart. A digipak single was released two weeks later on 31 July 1995, reaching number 141 on the UK Singles Chart.

The single was released on CD, CD Digipack, Green 7" Vinyl and Cassette.

Loose (Nelly Furtado album)

Loose is the third studio album by Canadian singer and songwriter Nelly Furtado, released on 6 June 2006 by Geffen Records and the Mosley Music Group. Following the release of Furtado's second album, Folklore (2003) through DreamWorks Records, it was announced that Universal Music Group would acquire DreamWorks Records, the later was folded into the Interscope Geffen A&M umbrella where Furtado would release any new music. Timbaland and his protégé Danja produced the bulk of the album, which incorporates influences of dance, R&B and hip hop. The album explores the theme of female sexuality and has been described as introspective or even sad in parts.

The album received criticism because of the sexual image Furtado adopted for the recording, as some critics felt it was a ploy to sell more records. Further controversy rose over accusations of plagiarism on Timbaland's part in the song " Do It" (which contained the melody from Finnish musician Janne Suni's song "Acidjazzed Evening" without proper authorization) when recordings were leaked onto YouTube. The record was seen generally as critically and commercially successful. It reached high positions on charts across the world, and according to an August 2009 press release, it had sold more than 12 million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling album of 2006–07 and the twenty-second best-selling album of the 2000s.

The album was heavily promoted, released in several editions and supported by the Get Loose Tour, which is the subject of the concert DVD Loose: The Concert. "Loose" debuted at number one, making it Furtado's first album to top the chart along with eight singles were released from the album, including the US number-one singles " Promiscuous" and " Say It Right", which received Grammy Award nominations for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, respectively. Other successful singles include the UK number-one single " Maneater" and the European number one single " All Good Things (Come to an End)".

Loose (Crazy Horse album)

Loose is a 1972 album by the rock band Crazy Horse, the follow-up to their self-titled debut.

Loose (surname)

Loose is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Emmy Loose (1914–1987), Austrian opera singer
  • Julian Loose (born 1985), German footballer
  • Ralf Loose (born 1963), German footballer and manager
  • Thomas Loose (born 1964), West-German slalom canoeist
  • William Loose (1910–1991), American composer
Loose (Victoria Williams album)

Loose, released in 1994 (see 1994 in music) is the third studio album by American singer/songwriter Victoria Williams.

Her previous album, 1990’s Swing the Statue!, won some critical praise but completely failed to attract commercial attention, and the collapse of Rough trade left her without a contract until Mammoth bought the rights to that album. Two years afterwards, Victoria was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and as a working musician, lacked health insurance or the money to pay her medical fees; however, a large number of musicians who admired the talent she had shown on her Geffen albums came into support her with 1993’s Sweet Relief: A Benefit for Victoria Williams tribute album recording her songs – including two unrecorded by Victoria herself.

Loose, in contrast to her first two albums, was recorded with a large crew including some high-profile contributors like R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, Sly Stone’s sister and bandmate Rose, husband-to-be Mark Olson and Soul Asylum’s Dave Pirner.

Containing a full hour of music, Loose saw Victoria Williams use a greater diversity of styles, notably the spiritual-influenced “You R Loved” and “Get Away”. Despite widespread critical praise, Loose could not break her commercially, failing to dent the Billboard Top 200, and Victoria moved with new husband Olson to Joshua Tree, California.

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Usage examples of "loose".

They were feeling loose and adrift, growing slowly mad, their minds degenerating.

An Indin burial place had been disturbed, the earth was bleeding from the massacre of birds and gators, and the Mikasukis was afeared that bad spirits of their old enemies might be set loose.

Third, and as a direct result of the second, we had an unbalanced afrit loose, too, causing additional mayhem.

I happen to remember because it was just two year before that a strain of human aftosa developed in a Bolivian lavatory got loose through the medium of a Chinchilla coat fixed an income tax case in Kansas City.

She was watched with delight even by the monks for in her black silk gown, ornamented by the brilliant tartan scarf, held together by the gold agraffe which was engraved with the arms of Scotland and Lorraine, her lovely hair loose about her shoulders, she was a charming sight.

His ague had caused him to swathe his throat and chin with a broad linen cravat, and he wore a loose damask powdering-gown secured by a cord round the waist.

Twain brought a dental unit with her and, in an astoundingly short time, initiated the growth of teeth to replace the ones Alacrity had knuckled loose.

Turning Alec loose, he sent him on his way with a resounding slap on the back.

Wrapping the reins more securely around his fist, Alec coaxed the nervous mare along with soothing words as her hooves struck loose stones.

Michael noted, as he turned to the Grand Dame Alpha with his hands loose and open.

They swung in wide left turns at a comfortable altitude and in loose formation to ease the pilots.

No one could ever dispute his claim to alumite for there would be no loose samples in existence, nor anyone alive to even tell the story.

Simon had pulled loose and passed down several tiles and made a hole in the roof large enough for him and Amity to climb through.

Sure, they know you were right about the amniotic fluid embolus, but a maniac on the loose is another thing altogether.

It is very amorous, and if it were loose it would go after the hens, and kill all the cocks on the country-side.