| steam fitting | care (installation and maintenance) of equipment for ventilating or heating or refrigerating |
loose end
unfinished business | work that is left incomplete |
fitting
try-on
trying on | putting clothes on to see whether they fit |
appointment
fitting | (usually plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel) |
| fitting | a small and often standardized accessory to a larger system |
| gas fitting | the fitting (pipes or valves or meters) that convey gas from the gas main to the gas fixtures of a building |
pipefitting
pipe fitting | fitting consisting of threaded pieces of pipe for joining pipes together |
| loose sentence | a complex sentence in which the main clause comes first and the subordinate clause follows |
adjustment
accommodation
fitting | making or becoming suitable, adjusting to circumstances |
leaf lettuce
loose-leaf lettuce | lettuce with loosely curled leaves that do not form a compact head |
adulteress
fornicatress
hussy
jade
loose woman
slut
strumpet
trollop | a woman adulterer |
| loose cannon | a person who is expected to perform a particular task but who is out of control and dangerous |
| loose smut | a smut fungus of the genus Ustilago causing a smut disease of grains in which the entire head is transformed into a dusty mass of spores |
| loose smut | disease of grains, the entire head is a dusty mass of spores |
explode burst forth
break loose | be unleashed, emerge with violence or noise, His anger exploded |
loosen
relax loose | become loose or looser or less tight, The noose loosened, the rope relaxed |
| loosen loose | make loose or looser, loosen the tension on a rope |
utter emit
let out let loose | express audibly, utter sounds (not necessarily words), She let out a big heavy sigh, He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand |
loose off
let fly
let drive | fire as from a gun, The soldiers let drive their bullets |
unleash let loose
loose | turn loose or free from restraint, let loose mines, Loose terrible plagues upon humanity |
escape
get away
break loose | run away from confinement, The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison |
free
liberate release
unloose
unloosen
loose | grant freedom to, free from confinement |
unaffixed
loose | not affixed, the stamp came loose |
easy
light
loose
promiscuous
sluttish
wanton | casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior, her easy virtue, he was told to avoid loose (or light) women, wanton behavior |
| ill-fitting | not the right size or shape |
| loose | not compact or dense in structure or arrangement, loose gravel |
| loose | (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player, a loose ball |
lax
loose | emptying easily or excessively, loose bowels |
free
loose
liberal | not literal, a loose interpretation of what she had been told, a free translation of the poem |
double-chinned
jowly
loose-jowled | having sagging folds of flesh beneath the chin or lower jaw |
at large(p)
escaped
loose on the loose(p) | 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 |
fitting
meet | being precisely fitting and right, it is only meet that she should be seated first |
| loose | not tight, not closely constrained or constricted or constricting, loose clothing, the large shoes were very loose |
baggy
loose-fitting
sloppy | not fitting closely, hanging loosely, baggy trousers, a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather |
close
snug
close-fitting | fitting closely but comfortably, a close fit |
tight-fitting
tightfitting
tight fitting
tightly fitting
skinny | fitting snugly, a tightly-fitting cover, tight-fitting clothes |
informal
loose | not officially recognized or controlled, an informal agreement, a loose organization of the local farmers |
| loose | not carefully arranged in a package, a box of loose nails |
| fitting | in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion, We have come to dedicate a portion of that field...It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this |
idle
loose | lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility, idle talk, a loose tongue |
screw-loose
screwy | not behaving normally |
loose
open | (of textures) full of small openings or gaps, an open texture, a loose weave |
loose
slack | not tense or taut, the old man's skin hung loose and grey, slack and wrinkled skin, slack sails, a slack rope |
| loose-jointed | loosely articulated or constructed, a loose-jointed paragraph |
loose
free | without restraint, cows in India are running loose |