| loss | the act of losing someone or something, everyone expected him to win so his loss was a shock |
| partial breach | a breach that does not destroy the value of the contract but can give rise to a claim for damages |
incomplete abortion
partial abortion | termination of pregnancy without expulsion of all of the products of conception |
| partial verdict | (criminal law) a finding that the defendant is guilty of some charges but innocent of others |
drawing card
loss leader
leader | a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers |
| partial denture | a denture replacing one or more teeth in a dental arch |
loss
deprivation | the disadvantage that results from losing something, his loss of credibility led to his resignation, losing him is no great deprivation |
amnesia
memory loss
blackout | partial or total loss of memory, he has a total blackout for events of the evening |
overtone
partial partial tone | a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency |
Dalton's law
Dalton's law of partial pressures
law of partial pressures | (chemistry and physics) law stating that the pressure exerted by a mixture of gases equals the sum of the partial pressures of the gases in the mixture, the pressure of a gas in a mixture equals the pressure it would exert if it occupied the same volume alone at the same temperature |
partial derivative
partial | the derivative of a function of two or more variables with respect to a single variable while the other variables are considered to be constant |
| partial correlation | a correlation between two variables when the effects of one or more related variables are removed |
| Kendall partial rank correlation | a nonparametric measure of partial correlation |
stop order
stop-loss order | an order to a broker to sell (buy) when the price of a security falls (rises) to a designated level |
| partial differential equation | a differential equation involving a functions of more than one variable |
| loss | the experience of losing a loved one, he sympathized on the loss of their grandfather |
passing
loss departure
exit
expiration
going
release | euphemistic expressions for death, thousands mourned his passing |
personnel casualty
loss | military personnel lost by death or capture |
| partial eclipse | an eclipse in which the eclipsed body is only partially obscured |
| loss of consciousness | the occurrence of a loss of the ability to perceive and respond |
| partial veil | membrane of the young sporophore of various mushrooms extending from the margin of the cap to the stem and is ruptured by growth, represented in mature mushroom by an annulus around the stem and sometimes a cortina on the margin of the cap |
| paper loss | an unrealized loss on an investment calculated by subtracting the current market price from the investor's cost |
| capital loss | the amount by which the purchase price of an asset exceeds the selling price, the loss is realized when the asset is sold |
loss
red ink
red | the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue, the company operated at a loss last year, the company operated in the red last year |
| loss | something that is lost, the car was a total loss, loss of livestock left the rancher bankrupt |
| financial loss | loss of money or decrease in financial value |
income statement
earnings report
operating statement
profit-and-loss statement | a financial statement that gives operating results for a specific period |
profit and loss
profit and loss account | an account compiled at the end of an accounting period to show gross and net profit or loss |
| loss | gradual decline in amount or activity, weight loss, a serious loss of business |
| loss ratio | the ratio of the annual claims paid by an insurance company to the premiums received |
deafness
hearing loss | partial or complete loss of hearing |
conductive hearing loss
conduction deafness
middle-ear deafness | hearing loss due to problems with the bones of the middle ear |
sensorineural hearing loss
nerve deafness | hearing loss due to failure of the auditory nerve |
| lose turn a loss | 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 |
| partial | being or affecting only a part, not total, a partial description of the suspect, partial collapse, a partial eclipse, a partial monopoly, partial immunity |
fond(p)
partial(p) | (followed by `of' or `to') having a strong preference or liking for, fond of chocolate, partial to horror movies |
| partial | showing favoritism |
at a loss(p)
nonplused
nonplussed
puzzled | filled with bewilderment, at a loss to understand those remarks, puzzled that she left without saying goodbye |
| at a loss | below cost, sold the car at a loss |