Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Loose, slang antonym for anxious ("uptight"), as in "loosen up" Loose woman, a promiscuous female Loose morals, especially sexual morals, not much concerned with prevailing ethics; Loose steering, vehicle oversteering "Loose lips sink ships", an American English idiom meaning "beware of unguarded talk"
The "shaka" sign. The shaka sign, sometimes known as "hang loose" is a gesture with friendly intent often associated with Hawaii and surf culture.It consists of extending the thumb and smallest finger while holding the three middle fingers curled, and gesturing in salutation while presenting the front or back of the hand; the wrist may be rotated back and forth for emphasis.
loose (practice) – The act of shooting an arrow from a bow (a.k.a. release) laminated bow (equipment) – A bow with different materials laminated together to make a single bow; limbs (equipment) – The upper and lower arms of a bow; longrod (equipment) – Rod attached to the bow to dampen vibrations
A loose sentence (also called a cumulative sentence) is a type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) is elaborated by the successive addition of modifying clauses or phrases. Construction
A social network is defined as either "loose" or "tight" depending on how connected its members are with each other, as measured by factors like density and multiplexity. [1] This measure of tightness is essential to the study of socially motivated language change because the tightness of a social network correlates with lack of innovation in ...
In psychiatry, derailment (aka loosening of association, asyndesis, asyndetic thinking, knight's move thinking, entgleisen, disorganised thinking [1]) categorises any speech comprising sequences of unrelated or barely related ideas; the topic often changes from one sentence to another.
We hear all the time about how we should not be living beyond our means. You want to have a good credit score, not live paycheck to paycheck and be able to save.
Loose coupling occurs when the dependent class contains a pointer only to an interface, which can then be implemented by one or many concrete classes. This is known as dependency inversion . The dependent class's dependency is to a "contract" specified by the interface; a defined list of methods and/or properties that implementing classes must ...