loss
/lɔs/ nom B1En français : perte, défaite
- The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement. · loss of limb; weight loss; loss of cognitive functions; loss of appetite.· People are less willing to take a risk to make a gain than to avoid a loss.
- The destruction or ruin of an object.
- Something that has been destroyed or ruined. · It was a terrible crash; both cars were total losses.
- Defeat; an instance of being defeated. · The match ended in their first loss of the season.
- The death of a person or animal. · We mourn his loss.· The battle was won, but losses were great.
- The condition of grief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who has died. · Her daughter's sense of loss eventually led to depression.
- The sum an entity loses on balance. · The sum of expenditures and taxes minus total income is a loss, when this difference is positive.
- Electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work. · The inefficiency of many old-fashioned power plants exceeds 60% loss before the subsequent losses during transport over the grid.
Pluriel losses
Dans la bibliothèque
Anne had gone home in the wonderful, white-frosted winter morning, heavy eyed from loss of sleep, but still talking unweariedly to Matthew as they crossed the long white field and walked under the glittering fairy arch of the Lover’s Lane maples.
Marilla loved the girl as much as she had loved the child, but she was conscious of a queer sorrowful sense of loss.
Two days afterwards they carried Matthew Cuthbert over his homestead threshold and away from the fields he had tilled and the orchards he had loved and the trees he had planted; and then Avonlea settled back to its usual placidity and even at Green Gables affairs slipped into their old groove and work was done and duties fulfilled with regularity as before, although always with the aching sense of “loss in all familiar things.” Anne, new to grief, thought it almost sad that it could be so--that they _could_ go on in the old way without Matthew.
“That is an uncommon advantage, and uncommon I hope it will continue, for it would be a great loss to _me_ to have many such acquaintance.
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