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Results for: "loose"

Translating from English to Czech

Translations:

loose — not fixed tightly
→ volný m
→ uvolněný

More translations:

loose
→ volný
loose
→ uvolněný
loose
→ volně vypuštěný
loose
→ volně ložený

Additional Definitions (WordNet):


VERB (4)

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

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

3. make loose or looser;
- Example: "loosen the tension on a rope"
[syn: loosen, loose]

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


ADJECTIVE (13)

1. not compact or dense in structure or arrangement;
- Example: "loose gravel"

2. (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player;
- Example: "a loose ball"

3. not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting;
- Example: "loose clothing"
- Example: "the large shoes were very loose"

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

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

6. emptying easily or excessively;
- Example: "loose bowels"
[syn: lax, loose]

7. not affixed;
- Example: "the stamp came loose"
[syn: unaffixed, loose]

8. not tense or taut;
- Example: "the old man's skin hung loose and grey"
- Example: "slack and wrinkled skin"
- Example: "slack sails"
- Example: "a slack rope"
[syn: loose, slack]

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

10. lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility;
- Example: "idle talk"
- Example: "a loose tongue"
[syn: idle, loose]

11. not carefully arranged in a package;
- Example: "a box of loose nails"

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

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


ADVERB (1)

1. without restraint;
- Example: "cows in India are running loose"
[syn: loose, free]