lost cause | a defeated cause or a cause for which defeat is inevitable |
lost-and-found | repository in a public building where lost articles can be kept until their owners reclaim them |
property prop | any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie, before every scene he ran down his checklist of props |
property | a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class, a study of the physical properties of atomic particles |
tactile property feel | a property perceived by touch |
visual property | an attribute of vision |
color property | an attribute of color |
olfactory property smell aroma odor odour scent | any property detected by the olfactory system |
sound property | an attribute of sound |
taste property | a property appreciated via the sense of taste |
bodily property | an attribute of the body |
physiological property | a property having to do with the functioning of the body |
physical property | any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions |
chemical property | a property used to characterize materials in reactions that change their identity |
temporal property | a property relating to time |
spatial property spatiality | any property relating to or occupying space |
property attribute dimension | a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished, selfonfidence is not an endearing property |
won-lost record | (sports) a record of win versus losses |
property settlement | (matrimonial law) the division of property owned or acquired by marriage partners during their marriage |
doomed lost | people who are destined to die soon, the agony of the doomed was in his voice |
Lost Tribes | the ten Tribes of Israel that were deported into captivity in Assyria aroundBC (leaving only the tribes of Judah and Benjamin) |
place property | any area set aside for a particular purpose, who owns this place?, the president was concerned about the property across from the White House |
property line | the boundary line between two pieces of property |
landowner landholder property owner | a holder or proprietor of land |
property man propman property master | member of the stage crew in charge of properties |
property right | the legal right of ownership |
property belongings holding | something owned, any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone, that hat is my property, he is a man of property, |
intellectual property | intangible property that is the result of creativity (such as patents or trademarks or copyrights) |
community property | property and income belonging jointly to a married couple |
personal property personal estate personalty private property | movable property (as distinguished from real estate) |
real property real estate realty immovable | property consisting of houses and land |
spiritualty spirituality church property | property or income owned by a church |
public property | property owned by a government |
transferred property transferred possession | a possession whose ownership changes or lapses |
stolen property | property that has been stolen |
property tax land tax | a capital tax on property imposed by municipalities, based on the estimated value of the property |
propertied property-owning | owning land or securities as a principal source of revenue |
lost missed | not caught with the senses or the mind, words lost in the din |
helpless lost | unable to function, without help |
lost | no longer in your possession or control, unable to be found or recovered, a lost child, lost friends, his lost book, lost opportunities |
lost | spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed, lost souls, a lost generation, a lost ship, the lost platoon |
lost | not gained or won, a lost battle, a lost prize |
confused disoriented lost | 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 |
a baffled befuddled bemused bewildered confounded confused lost mazed mixed-up at sea | 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 |
lost | incapable of being recovered or regained, his lost honor |
bemused deep in thought(p) lost(p) preoccupied | 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 |