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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lost
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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a wasted/lost/missed opportunity (=one you do not use)
▪ Many people see the failed talks as a missed opportunity for peace.
be lost at seaformal (= be drowned in the sea)
▪ His father had been lost at sea three months before.
lost control of himself
▪ Davidson lost control of himself and started yelling.
lost control of
▪ The Democrats lost control of Congress in the last election.
lost her looks (=became less attractive)
▪ When she lost her looks she found it difficult to get work.
lost its savour
▪ Life seemed to have lost its savour for him.
lost productivity
▪ It cost the country $4 million in lost productivity.
lost property
▪ Thankfully, someone had handed my bag into Lost Property.
lost revenues
▪ Strikes have cost £20 million in lost revenues.
lost the thread (=was no longer able to understand it)
▪ His mind wandered, and he lost the thread of what she was saying .
lost touch with (=stopped writing or talking to)
▪ I lost touch with Julie after we moved.
lost...composure
▪ He has lost his composure under the pressure of the situation.
lost...touch (=lost his ability)
▪ King obviously hasn’t lost his touch – his latest book sold in the millions.
lost...track of time
▪ I just lost all track of time.
sth gets lost in the post
▪ I'm afraid the cheque must have got lost in the post.
sth has lost a button
▪ His favourite shirt had lost a button.
your lost youth (=the time long ago when you were young)
▪ He wept for his lost youth.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be/get lost in the shuffle
▪ And in our sandwich, the grated cheese, when melted, got lost in the shuffle of the other ingredients.
▪ The theory, however, broke down; both customers and employees got lost in the shuffle.
give sb up for dead/lost etc
▪ After much searching, the village people gave Kay up for dead.
▪ Gray had been missing for over a year, and his wife was ready to give him up for dead.
▪ It is as if he gave them up for dead when they left Shiloh.
▪ On the thirteenth day, Kasturbai knelt before a sacred plant and prayed; she had given him up for lost.
lost in the mists of time
▪ And, for some reason lost in the mists of time, we need to do that.
▪ What actually transpired upon the outbreak of the Civil War is lost in the mists of time it would seem.
make up for lost time
▪ He's girl crazy! He went to a boys' school and now he's making up for lost time.
▪ The bus driver was speeding to make up for lost time.
▪ After a century or so of political apathy, Hong Kong's young people were making up for lost time.
▪ He was eager to make up for lost time and published prolifically.
▪ Meanwhile Keith and Mae are settling down to married life, making up for lost time.
▪ None the less, we immediately started our other meetings to make up for lost time.
▪ Once I settled into my new life, I did everything I could to make up for lost time.
▪ Time to make up for lost time.
there is no love lost between sb and sb
▪ There's no love lost between Bart and Stephen.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Front forces, in particular, lost a very high percentage of their best men in 1968.
▪ He had lost blood profusely and had collapsed.
▪ I lost my faith when my parents died.
▪ Phil Gramm of Texas, who lost a presidential primary bid against Dole.
▪ Read in studio A man severely brain damaged in an operation more than twenty-five years ago, has lost his fight for compensation.
▪ Thus the would-be entrepreneur can keep drawing benefits, and, if the business fails, they haven't lost out.
II.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
long
▪ What did Billy Corkin do that Will Carling could never do, he asks long lost friends.
▪ Meanwhile, the young stylist must find her long lost sister before her wedding on Saturday and time is running out.
■ NOUN
business
▪ It's thought to have cost the Dickens and Jones department store £100,000 in lost business.
▪ Sandone said that there were other instances of lost business directly traceable to the suit.
▪ How much does all this cost you in lost production, lost business opportunities, inefficiency?
▪ At a recent meeting with bus company representatives councillors and officers were sceptical about the claims in lost business.
▪ For a large number of firms it also represents a substantial lost business opportunity.
cause
▪ My patron saint was Saint Jude, the patron of lost causes.
▪ A lost cause, the old woman reflected sadly.
▪ Stand by your principles but don't waste time on lost causes.
▪ All credit to Bann, though for not shutting-up-shop on an already lost cause as Mark Carson pegged it back.
▪ It's seems that their marriage is a lost cause in which possess the husband and wife not real affection for one another.
▪ But they are not completely lost causes.
▪ When he took his second 6 at the ninth after tangling with bushes, he looked a lost cause.
▪ In one sense, Mentmore was a lost cause even before we began.
child
▪ Which is why Caroline likes nursing him as if he were still a lost child.
▪ The Old Slann had fallen, leaving their lost children to battle the daemons alone.
earnings
▪ The lost earnings should be calculated tax year by tax year and the appropriate rates of tax adopted.
ground
▪ It marked a recovery of lost ground rather than any significant advance to new territory.
▪ Merchant bank Warburg also lost ground, down 45p to 479p after a 44% slump in half-year profits to £51m.
▪ Never mind, say market optimists: the first quarter of 1991 promises to make up much lost ground.
▪ The recent price recovery can not make up for that much lost ground.
▪ Hambros also lost ground, down 11p at 233p, after a 34% drop in interim figures.
▪ Fellow stores groups also lost ground as dealers decided the euphoria about the New Year sales had been overdone.
▪ However, such was A Smooth One's superiority that she quickly made up the lost ground to score by four lengths.
job
▪ If the stock level is consistently too low, lost sales may eventually lead to lost jobs.
▪ It was a great way to get revenge for various slights, lost jobs, bad reviews or even undeserved success.
life
▪ In it's place a memorial to their lost lives.
▪ Rather than recovering lost languages, John Friedman is recovering lost lives.
love
▪ Keifer Sutherland plays the boyfriend, and after three years he's still obsessed with the search for his lost love.
▪ Shelley felt the familiar pang of heartache and lost love as their eyes met.
▪ And oh Fergus, my dear, lost love, am I doing you so much harm?
▪ It had proved quite an exciting substitute for lost love, and a pacifier in that time of grave trouble.
▪ Assuming the form of the lost love, the spirit comes in a dream to sexually possess the abandoned one.
▪ But all the time he himself was carrying his own torch for a lost love.
money
▪ Norton did sell nearly 200 bikes in the year 1989-1990, but lost money on every one of them.
▪ The Obey bill also aimed to directly limit PACs and to create public finance in order to replace lost money.
▪ With both of these, you'd have lost money, but they are exceptions.
▪ Judge Keith Matthewman said it was a well-planned scheme and if it had worked thousands of people would have lost money.
▪ I had published several small books myself, but I always lost money.
▪ We continued to cut costs and still lost money.
▪ Grade had overstretched himself and lost money heavily on box office flops such as Raise the Titanic and biblical epics.
▪ Relying on these reports, Hedley Byrne incurred expenditure and lost money when its customer went into liquidation.
opportunity
▪ As a seasoned business traveller I am constantly amazed at all the lost opportunities to build customer loyalty.
▪ But he missed his chance, and spent the next seven years trying to catch up on his lost opportunity.
▪ One of these was the rule of lost opportunity or effective last chance.
▪ Taking things for granted or failing to seek new understanding indicates a lost opportunity for adding to the store of experience.
▪ Chaplin's non-appearance before the UnAmerican Activities Committee was one of the great lost opportunities of both their careers.
▪ And of course they will suffer consequences - at the very least those of wasted time and lost opportunities.
production
▪ By November 1984 the strike had cost 55.5 million tonnes of coal in lost production.
▪ Such closures could cost mine companies hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost production.
▪ Bird damage costs farmers millions of pounds a year in lost production.
▪ How much does all this cost you in lost production, lost business opportunities, inefficiency?
▪ People eat more chocolate in winter; and we've a fortnight's lost production to make up.
productivity
▪ Sickness absence is a big problem both in terms of lost productivity and cost and in terms of employees' wellbeing.
▪ The restrictions on job-placement tests may be costing billions of dollars annually in lost productivity.
▪ Alcohol abuse undoubtedly has a cost, through treatment, accidents and lost productivity.
property
▪ He looks like lost property now.
▪ Since plaintiffs naturally inclined to value their lost property exorbitantly, defendants did have reason to think seriously about restoring it.
▪ Basically the police will regard the child as lost property to be returned as soon as possible.
revenue
▪ Firms within enterprise zones would not pay rates for ten years, local government being reimbursed for lost revenue by the Treasury.
▪ The inducement to give is greater, but by the same token there is a cost to the Exchequer in lost revenue.
sale
▪ When Bogdanov refused, Mr Goddard said he intended to charge the company at least £1,650 to cover lost sales.
▪ It was estimated that the disruption cost retailers around £5m in lost sales.
▪ Damaged stock means lost sales, and lost sales mean less profit.
▪ If the stock level is consistently too low, lost sales may eventually lead to lost jobs.
sight
▪ Despite the injustice, he never lost sight of his love for football, winning two shields at inter-prison soccer matches.
▪ McCready had watched him enter the corridor between the two border posts, then lost sight of him.
▪ The glider pilot was dazzled for a moment and lost sight of the tug.
▪ And even in the very last analysis, those participant accounts must not be entirely lost sight of.
▪ This positive facilitating function should not be lost sight of in our study of the negative controlling function.
▪ You see, she never lost sight of her dream and everyone was welcome to share it.
▪ Despite his international acclaim, Prof Gibson never lost sight of his roots.
▪ Still, she never lost sight of the smaller details that made the operation run smoothly.
soul
▪ The howling wind outside sounded like the wailing of lost souls.
▪ Those lost souls are so impoverished that they shave their heads in order that they may rub alcohol into them.
▪ And Sam Spiro - he had been like a lost soul since his wife died.
▪ There were some poor lost souls last week at the Ordnance Survey office in Chester.
▪ They were the voices of lost souls, all taking their lead from the one voice that had spoken Cardiff's name.
▪ Yet somehow she was very much part of the group and her loudness underlined yet another lost soul.
▪ Imagine her delight when a lost soul returns, through her good offices, to the fold.
▪ A few lost souls wander aimlessly down to the front and stare up at Bono's frantic, manic animation, briefly bemused.
time
▪ Also, strikes are responsible for an almost negligible amount of lost time compared with total hours worked by the employed population.
▪ He was eager to make up for lost time and published prolifically.
▪ None the less, we immediately started our other meetings to make up for lost time.
▪ Contractor recordable and lost time accident rates were also a fraction of the industry average.
▪ After a century or so of political apathy, Hong Kong's young people were making up for lost time.
▪ Breakdowns were the major causes of lost time and extra work.
▪ Meanwhile Keith and Mae are settling down to married life, making up for lost time.
world
▪ The new novel usually starts from where one is, seldom from a vision of a lost world or future utopia.
▪ It's a lost world now - lost as Conan Doyle's!
▪ After what she had gone through she knew she could not reconstruct the universe, only recapture her own lost world.
▪ These latter writers were trying to re-enter the lost world of childhood after first discarding the traditional concept of the afterlife.
youth
▪ The whole house smelled of it, of lost youth shrivelled up into a kind of dust.
▪ It is for ourselves and our lost youth we weep.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Did you understand him?" "No, I'm completely lost."
▪ a lost dog
▪ a lost tourist
▪ Divers are searching for the plane's lost flight recorder.
▪ I've looked everywhere for the car keys. I think they must be lost.
▪ My keys are lost again.
▪ New computer systems could save us millions of dollars in lost time.
▪ Several good business opportunities have been lost.
▪ the lost dreams of her youth
▪ You haven't gotten my letter yet? It must have gotten lost in the mail.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Never mind, say market optimists: the first quarter of 1991 promises to make up much lost ground.
▪ Of course, you might live perfectly happily together but you might also hanker for your lost independence.
▪ Such closures could cost mine companies hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost production.
▪ The lost or damaged car will then belong to us.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lost

Lost \Lost\, a. [Prop. p. p. of OE. losien. See Lose, v. t.]

  1. Parted with unwillingly or unintentionally; not to be found; missing; as, a lost book or sheep.

  2. Parted with; no longer held or possessed; as, a lost limb; lost honor.

  3. Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered; as, a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit.

    5. Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way; bewildered; perplexed; as, a child lost in the woods; a stranger lost in London.

    6. Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope; as, a ship lost at sea; a woman lost to virtue; a lost soul.

    7. Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor.

    8. Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible; as, an island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd.

    9. Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as to be insensible of external things; as, to be lost in thought.

    Lost motion (Mach.), the difference between the motion of a driver and that of a follower, due to the yielding of parts or looseness of joints.

Lost

Lose \Lose\ (l[=oo]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lost (l[o^]st; 115) p. pr. & vb. n. Losing (l[=oo]z"[i^]ng).] [OE. losien to loose, be lost, lose, AS. losian to become loose; akin to OE. leosen to lose, p. p. loren, lorn, AS. le['o]san, p. p. loren (in comp.), D. verliezen, G. verlieren, Dan. forlise, Sw. f["o]rlisa, f["o]rlora, Goth. fraliusan, also to E. loose, a & v., L. luere to loose, Gr. ly`ein, Skr. l[=u] to cut. [root]127. Cf. Analysis, Palsy, Solve, Forlorn, Leasing, Loose, Loss.]

  1. To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle.

    Fair Venus wept the sad disaster Of having lost her favorite dove.
    --Prior.

  2. To cease to have; to possess no longer; to suffer diminution of; as, to lose one's relish for anything; to lose one's health.

    If the salt hath lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted?
    --Matt. v. 1

  3. 3. Not to employ; to employ ineffectually; to throw away; to waste; to squander; as, to lose a day; to lose the benefits of instruction.

    The unhappy have but hours, and these they lose.
    --Dryden.

  4. To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to and; to go astray from; as, to lose one's way.

    He hath lost his fellows.
    --Shak

  5. To ruin; to destroy; as destroy; as, the ship was lost on the ledge.

    The woman that deliberates is lost.
    --Addison.

  6. To be deprived of the view of; to cease to see or know the whereabouts of; as, he lost his companion in the crowd.

    Like following life thro' creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
    --Pope.

  7. To fail to obtain or enjoy; to fail to gain or win; hence, to fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss; as, I lost a part of what he said.

    He shall in no wise lose his reward.
    --Matt. x. 42.

    I fought the battle bravely which I lost, And lost it but to Macedonians.
    --Dryden.

  8. To cause to part with; to deprive of. [R.]

    How should you go about to lose him a wife he loves with so much passion?
    --Sir W. Temple.

  9. To prevent from gaining or obtaining. O false heart! thou hadst almost betrayed me to eternal flames, and lost me this glory. --Baxter. To lose ground, to fall behind; to suffer gradual loss or disadvantage. To lose heart, to lose courage; to become timid. ``The mutineers lost heart.'' --Macaulay. To lose one's head, to be thrown off one's balance; to lose the use of one's good sense or judgment, through fear, anger, or other emotion. In the excitement of such a discovery, many scholars lost their heads. --Whitney. To lose one's self.

    1. To forget or mistake the bearing of surrounding objects; as, to lose one's self in a great city.

    2. To have the perceptive and rational power temporarily suspended; as, we lose ourselves in sleep. To lose sight of.

      1. To cease to see; as, to lose sight of the land.

      2. To overlook; to forget; to fail to perceive; as, he lost sight of the issue.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lost

"defeated," c.1300; "wasted, spent in vain," c.1500; also "no longer to be found" (1520s), from past participle of lose. Lost Cause in reference to the Southern U.S. bid for independence is from the title of E.A. Pollard's history of the CSA and the rebellion (1866). Lost Generation in reference to the period 1914-18 first attested 1926 in Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises," where he credits it to Gertrude Stein. Lost-and-found as the name of a department where misplaced articles are brought or sought is by 1907.

Wiktionary
lost

  1. 1 Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way. 2 In an unknown location; unable to be found. 3 Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible. 4 Parted with; no longer held or possessed. 5 Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered. 6 Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope. 7 Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible. 8 Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as not to notice external things. v

  2. (en-past of: lose)

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WordNet
lost

n. people who are destined to die soon; "the agony of the doomed was in his voice" [syn: doomed]

lost

See lose

lose

  1. v. fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense; "She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat" [ant: keep]

  2. fail to win; "We lost the battle but we won the war" [ant: win]

  3. suffer the loss of a person through death or removal; "She lost her husband in the war"; "The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her"

  4. place (something) where one cannot find it again; "I misplaced my eyeglasses" [syn: misplace, mislay]

  5. miss from one's possessions; lose sight of; "I've lost my glasses again!" [ant: find]

  6. allow to go out of sight; "The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light"

  7. fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit; "I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!"; "The company turned a loss after the first year" [syn: turn a loss] [ant: profit, break even]

  8. fail to get or obtain; "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad" [ant: acquire]

  9. retreat [syn: fall back, drop off, fall behind, recede] [ant: gain]

  10. fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind; "I missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost part of what he said" [syn: miss]

  11. be set at a disadvantage; "This author really suffers in translation" [syn: suffer]

  12. [also: lost]

lost

  1. adj. no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered; "a lost child"; "lost friends"; "his lost book"; "lost opportunities" [ant: found]

  2. having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity; "I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subway"; "the anesthetic left her completely disoriented" [syn: confused, disoriented]

  3. spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed; "lost souls"; "a lost generation"; "a lost ship"; "the lost platoon" [ant: saved]

  4. not gained or won; "a lost battle"; "a lost prize" [ant: won]

  5. incapable of being recovered or regained; "his lost honor"

  6. not caught with the senses or the mind; "words lost in the din" [syn: missed]

  7. deeply absorbed in thought; "as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class"; "lost in thought"; "a preoccupied frown" [syn: bemused, deep in thought(p), lost(p), preoccupied]

  8. no longer known; irretrievable; "a forgotten art"; "a lost art"; "lost civilizations" [syn: forgotten]

  9. perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment; "obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt lost on the first day of school" [syn: baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, mazed, mixed-up, at sea]

  10. unable to function; without help [syn: helpless]

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Lost

Lost may refer to:

Lost (game show)

Lost is a reality television show screened in the United States and United Kingdom in late 2001. It was a game show in a race format where teams raced around the world with few or no resources.

Lost (Maguire novel)

Lost is a 2001 novel by American author Gregory Maguire. Unlike many of Maguire's other adult novels, Lost is set in the real world. The novel's concept is that the protagonist is a distant relation of the man who inspired Charles Dickens' character of Ebenezer Scrooge.

Lost (season 1)

The first season of the television series Lost commenced airing in the United States and Canada on September 22, 2004, concluded on May 25, 2005, and contained 25 episodes. It introduces the 48 survivors of a plane that broke apart in mid-air, scattering them on a remote island somewhere in the South Pacific. Forced to work together to survive, they come to realize it is no ordinary island.

The first season aired Wednesdays at 8:00 pm in the United States. In addition to the 25 regular episodes, a special, "Lost: The Journey", was aired on April 27, 2005, between the 20th and 21st episodes of the season. The season was released on DVD as a seven disc boxed set under the title of Lost: The Complete First Season on September 6, 2005 by Buena Vista Home Entertainment.

Lost (season 2)

The second season of the American serial drama television series Lost commenced airing in the United States and Canada on September 21, 2005 and concluded on May 24, 2006. The second season continues the stories of a group of over forty people who have been stranded on a remote island in the south Pacific, after their airplane crashed forty-four days prior to the beginning of the season. The producers have stated that as the first season is about introducing the survivors, the second season is about a 1970s scientific Dharma Initiative research station which the survivors discovered on the island and refer to as "the hatch". The second season aired Wednesdays at 9:00 pm in the United States. In addition to the regular twenty-four episodes (with a run time around 42 minutes each), three clip-shows recapped previous events on the show. "Destination Lost" aired before the premiere, "Lost: Revelation" aired before the tenth episode and "Lost: Reckoning" aired before the twentieth episode. The season was released on DVD as a seven disc boxed set under the title of Lost: The Complete Second Season – The Extended Experience on September 5, 2006 by Buena Vista Home Entertainment.

Lost (8Ball album)

Lost is the debut solo studio album by American rapper Eightball. It is a double album. The album was released on May 19, 1998, by Draper Inc. Records. 8Ball had already released three albums as a part of the group 8Ball & MJG, but after 1995's On Top of the World the group decided to make solo albums before reuniting as a group. This was the second of the group's solo albums, being released after MJG's No More Glory.

Lost (1956 film)

Lost (also called Tears for Simon) is a 1956 British thriller film directed by Guy Green. It is set in 1950s London, and revolves around the apparent kidnapping of a young American couple's baby.

Lost (2004 film)

Lost is a 2004 American thriller film starring Dean Cain. It was written and directed by first-time filmmaker, Darren Lemke.

Lost (season 3)

The third season of the American serial drama television series Lost commenced airing in the United States and Canada on October 4, 2006 and concluded on May 23, 2007. The third season continues the stories of a group of over 40 people who have been stranded on a remote island in the South Pacific, after their airplane crashed 68 days prior to the beginning of the season. In the Lost universe, the season takes place from November 28 to December 21, 2004. The producers have stated that as the first season is about introducing the survivors and the second season is about the hatch, the third season is about the Others, a group of mysterious island inhabitants.

In response to fan complaints about scheduling in the previous seasons, ABC decided to air the episodes without reruns, albeit in two separate blocks. In the United States, the first block consisted of six episodes aired on Wednesdays at 9:00 pm and after a twelve-week break, the season continued with the remaining 16 episodes at 10:00 pm. In addition, three clip-shows recapped previous events on the show. "Lost: A Tale of Survival" aired a week before the season premiere, "Lost Survivor Guide" aired before the seventh episode and "Lost: The Answers" aired before the season finale Buena Vista Home Entertainment released the season under the title Lost: The Complete Third Season – The Unexplored Experience on December 11, 2007 in Region 1 on DVD and Blu-ray Disc.

Lost (RTZ album)

Lost is the second album by American rock band RTZ. It was released in 1999 by Renaissance Records and Avalon Japan. It was reissued in 2000 with a bonus track, and again in 2005 under the title Lost in America.

Lost (Cool Calm Pete album)

Lost is the first solo album by American hip hop artist Cool Calm Pete. Originally released in the United States via Embedded Records in 2005, it was re-released with additional bonus tracks in Europe via Definitive Jux in 2006.

Lost (season 4)

The fourth season of the American serial drama television series Lost commenced airing on the American Broadcasting Company Network in the United States, and on CTV in Canada on January 31, 2008, and concluded on May 29, 2008. The season continues the stories of a group of over 40 people who have been stranded on a remote island in the South Pacific, after their airplane crashed there more than 90 days prior to the beginning of the season. According to Lost executive producers/writers/ showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, there are two main themes in the fourth season: "the castaways' relationship to the freighter folk" and "who gets off the island and the fact that they need to get back". Lost came under scrutiny from critics in its third season, but the fourth season was acclaimed for its flash-forwards, pace and new characters.

The season was originally planned to contain 16 episodes; eight were filmed before the start of the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. Following the strike's resolution, it was announced that only five more episodes would be produced to complete the season; however, the season finale's script was so long that network executives approved the production of a 14th episode as part of a three-hour season finale split over two nights. The fourth season aired Thursdays at 9:00 pm from January 31 to March 20, 2008, and at 10:00 pm from April 24 to May 15, 2008. The two-hour finale aired at 9:00 pm on May 29, 2008. Buena Vista Home Entertainment released the season on DVD and Blu-ray Disc under the title Lost: The Complete Fourth Season – The Expanded Experience on December 9, 2008, in Region 1; however, it was released earlier—on October 20, 2008—in Region 2.

Lost (season 5)

The fifth season of the American serial drama television series Lost commenced airing on the ABC network in the United States and on A in Canada in January 2009, and concluded with a two-hour season finale on May 13, 2009. The season continues the stories of the survivors of the fictional crash of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815, after some of them are rescued and those still stranded seemingly disappear to an unknown location and time with the island that they inhabit.

According to Lost co-creator/executive producer/writer/ show runner Damon Lindelof, the season "is about why [the people who have left the island] need to get back". Lost returned on January 21, 2009, on ABC with a three-hour premiere consisting of a clip-show and two back-to-back new episodes. The remainder of the season aired on Wednesdays at 9:00 pm EST. The season began in the UK and Ireland on January 25, 2009, on Sky1 and RTÉ Two, respectively. The season was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc under the title Lost: The Complete Fifth Season – The Journey Back, Expanded Edition on December 8, 2009.

Lost (album)
Lost (Michael Bublé song)

"Lost" is a song by Canadian crooner Michael Bublé, released as third single from his third major label studio album, Call Me Irresponsible. The song was inspired by the breakup with his former fiancée Debbie Timuss. The song was released as a single on November 12, 2007.

Lost (Menudo song)

"Lost" (also released in spanish as "Perdido Sin Ti") is a song by the Puerto Rican boy band, Menudo. It was released as a digital single with virtually no album support in June 2008. While it failed to enter the Billboard Hot 100, it instead charted on the Pop Songs chart at number 36.

Lost (Robotham novel)

Lost, also known as The Drowning Man, is a 2005 Ned Kelly Award-winning novel by the Australian author Michael Robotham, and is the second of his novels to feature the protagonists Dr Joseph O'Loughlin and DI Vincent Ruiz.

Lost (season 6)

The sixth and final season of the American serial drama television series Lost commenced airing in the United States and Canada on February 2, 2010. The sixth-season premiere was the first to climb in the ratings year-over-year since the second season, drawing 12.1 million viewers. The season aired Tuesdays at 9:00 pm from February 2 to May 18. The series finale aired on Sunday, May 23, 2010. The finale ran two-and-a-half hours starting at 9:00 pm; pushing the local news back a half-hour, followed by the previously announced post-finale special, Jimmy Kimmel Live: Aloha to Lost, at 12:05 am. The season continues the stories of the survivors of the fictional September 22, 2004 crash of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 on a mysterious island in the South Pacific. The survivors must deal with two outcomes of the detonation of a nuclear bomb on the island in the 1970s. While the on-island story continues, "flash sideways" show a second timeline, in which Flight 815 never crashes. The season was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 24, 2010 alongside a complete series boxset. Included in the special features was " The New Man in Charge," a previously unaired shortened episode that serves as an epilogue following the events of the finale.

Lost (Faith Hill song)

"Lost" is a song written by Mitch Allan and Kara DioGuardi and was recorded by American country music singer Faith Hill. It was released in June 2007 as the first single from her compilation album The Hits.

The week after its release, it made the highest debut of the week at #61 on the US Hot 100 Singles Chart. Despite this, the song struggled on the country charts being unable to reach the top 30, in part because " I Need You", a top-10 duet with Tim McGraw from McGraw's Let It Go, was concurrently active on the charts. Even though without a music video, the song peaked at #32 on that chart. Released to AC radio, it has been a moderate hit reaching #11 and spending 21 weeks on chart. It also reached #40 on the 2008 Billboard Year End Hot Adult Contemporary Songs chart.

Lost (TV series)

Lost is an American television drama series that originally aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) from September 22, 2004, to May 23, 2010, over six seasons, comprising a total of 121 episodes. Lost is a drama series containing elements of science fiction and the supernatural. It follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet, flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island somewhere in the South Pacific Ocean. The story is told in a heavily serialized manner. Episodes typically feature a primary storyline set on the island, augmented by flashback or flashforward sequences which provide additional insight into the involved character(s).

Lost was created by Jeffrey Lieber, J. J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof, who share story-writing credits for the pilot episode, which Abrams directed. Throughout the show's run, Lindelof and Carlton Cuse served as showrunners and head writers, working together with a large number of other executive producers and writers. Due to its large ensemble cast and the cost of filming primarily on location in Oahu, Hawaii, the series was one of the most expensive on television, with the pilot alone costing over $14 million. The fictional universe and mythology of Lost are expanded upon by a number of related media, most importantly, a series of short mini-episodes called Missing Pieces, and a 12-minute epilogue titled " The New Man in Charge."

Having achieved both wide acclaim and commercial success throughout its original run, Lost has been consistently ranked by critics as one of the greatest television dramas of all time. The first season garnered an estimated average of 16 million viewers per episode on ABC. During its sixth and final season, the show averaged over 11 million U.S. viewers per episode. Lost was the recipient of hundreds of industry award nominations throughout its run and won numerous of these awards, including the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in 2005, Best American Import at the British Academy Television Awards in 2005, the Golden Globe Award for Best Drama in 2006, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series. Lost was declared the highest-rated show for the first ten years of IMDb.com Pro (2002–2012).

Lost (band)

Lost is an Italian pop band consisting of four boys from Vicenza and Thiene, in Northern Italy.

Lost (Gorilla Zoe song)

"Lost" is a song by American hip hop recording artist Gorilla Zoe, released October 28, 2008 as the lead single from his second studio album Don't Feed Da Animals. The song leaked in May 2007 entitled "Losin' My Mind", featuring a verse from fellow American rapper Lil Wayne. It is notable that, specifically with the version of "Lost" featuring Lil Wayne, both songs use the auto-tune effect.

Lost (Roger Sanchez song)

"Lost" is a single by Grammy Award winning Dominican-American progressive house DJ Roger Sanchez, featuring Lisa Pure and Katherine Ellis. The song was featured in Sanchez's album Come with Me which was released in 2006. The song's melody is described as reminiscent of the 1980s, but with a tincture of a new romantic shading to the synth. The Song is a remix of a previous 2000 release by a group called Box Office featuring Stacey King on vocals, called "Just Leave me". Sanchez did 2 remixes of that song back in 2000

Lost (Stargate Universe)

"Lost" is the fifteenth episode of military science fiction television series Stargate Universe. The episode originally aired on April 30, 2010 on Syfy in the United States, and on SPACE in Canada. The episode was directed by, Rohn Schmidt who previously acted as the director of photography in Air. It was written by Martin Gero, a co-executive producer of Stargate Atlantis.

In this episode, the off-world team continues its search for a way out of the tunnels. However a collapse traps Sgt. Greer under the rubble. Fearing his death the team leaves him behind trying to catch up to the Destiny, which is close to leaving the galaxy. In his solitude Greer relives memories of his abusive father.

Lost (Lasgo song)

"Lost" is the third single released by the Belgian dance group Lasgo after the addition of Jelle Van Dael as vocals. The video was shot in Blackpool (UK). It started immediately to climb the national charts.

Lost (Carpark North album)

Lost is the first internationally released album by Danish electronic rock band Carpark North.

In 2009 Carpark North was contacted by Swedish label "Mr. Radar" who wanted to sign the band through Sony Music worldwide. The band re-recorded songs from their three studio albums, Carpark North (2003), All Things to All People (2005) and Grateful (2008), which resulted in creation of the super album "Lost".

The album was released on 27 August 2010 in the United Kingdom and Germany, on 1 September 2010 in Europe, and on 14 September 2010 in North America.

The song "Save Me from Myself" was covered by Brazilian Christian rock band Oficina G3 and Christian musician Michael W. Smith.

Lost (Elegy album)

Lost, released in 1995, is the third album by Dutch power metal band Elegy.

Lost (Frank Ocean song)

"Lost" is a song by American recording artist Frank Ocean. It was released as the fourth single from his debut studio album Channel Orange (2012). The song was written by Ocean, Micah Otano and Malay; production was handled by the latter. The single has also been covered by American production trio Major Lazer featuring vocals from Danish recording artist MØ.

Lost (1983 film)

Lost is a 1983 low-budget movie directed by Al Adamson. It stars Sandra Dee, Gary Kent and Jack Elam. This was Dee's last film role.

Lost (Cold Chisel song)

"Lost" was a 2015 single from Australian rock band Cold Chisel. The single was released weeks before the album, The Perfect Crime, that it featured on. A mid-tempo ballad, it reached number 92 in the Australian charts.

Lost (Died Pretty album)

Lost is the second album by Australian rock band Died Pretty. It was released in 1988.

The album, produced by former Radio Birdman vocalist Rob Younger, became the second biggest-selling alternative album for 1988, behind Ed Kuepper's Everybody's Got To and ahead of The Church's Starfish. It yielded three singles, including "Winterland," the fourth best-selling alternative single for 1987.

The album's release was delayed for 18 months by protracted negotiations with Festival Records over a distribution deal. An expanded version, featuring the 1989 single "Everybody Moves," as well as B-sides and alternative versions, was released in 2013 by Sandman Records.

Lost (1950 film)

Lost (Spanish: Perdida) is a 1950 Mexican drama film directed by Fernando A. Rivero and starring Ninón Sevilla, Agustín Lara and Domingo Soler.

The film's art direction was by José Rodríguez Granada.

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Usage examples of "lost".

But his thought stayed not there, but carried him into the days when he was abiding in desire of the love that he won at last, and lost so speedily.

Far aboon, ommost lost to mi view, Aw lang for a pair ov his wings, To fly wi him, an sing like him, too.

If he wept at the sight of an old tapestry which represented the crime and punishment of the son of Chosroes, if his days were abridged by grief and remorse, we may allow some pity to a parricide, who exclaimed, in the bitterness of death, that he had lost both this world and the world to come.

Already a bit bewildered by their flurry of Classical references and Latin maxims, he was lost when Acer and George exchanged a few lines in French, watching out of the corner of their eyes to see if he had understood.

Another moment she could see, as if through a dirtied window, some place she knew, but had lost, and her old bones ached with wanting to be there.

She ached for the return of her husband, for the love she had apparently lost.

If Priam were to ally himself with Axis and his ungodly hordes, then the Forbidden could invade Achar and all would be lost.

Nevertheless, he concluded that the moral life is a consequence of civilisation, not the natural state and that in achieving morality and civilisation men and woman have lost their innocence.

I lost my trouble and my time, for I did not become acquainted with the shore till the octave of Christmas, and with the small door six months afterwards.

It possesses an acrid, biting taste, somewhat like that of the Peppermint, which resides in the glandular dots sprinkled about its surface, and which is lost in drying.

But the strongest argument in their favour was that adduced by Lord Althorp, which was to the effect, that, if his motion were lost, it would upset the ministry.

He arose from the oaken bench on which he was seated in the chapel, and wished, as the priest had done, to go and bid a last adieu to the double grave which contained his two lost friends.

Centaur, and I have lost my Napoli, and I cannot imagine a better description of cut moorings and being adrift than that.

These ancient Martians had been a highly cultivated and literary race, but during the vicissitudes of those trying centuries of readjustment to new conditions, not only did their advancement and production cease entirely, but practically all their archives, records, and literature were lost.

The reason for this is that a repetition of the adverbial form down a page or two quickly attracts attention to itself, and the reader will have lost the sense of imagined experience through a mannerism of style.