loose

• adj.ルーズな; ルーズグージーな; 不健全な; 不正確な
• vt.放つ；帆走する；砲を放つ
• vi. ゆるめる；発射する
• adv. ゆるく
• n. 放つ；放つ；発射する
• n. （チェコ語、スウェーデン語）ルーズ；（英語）ルーズ；（ドイツ語）ルーザー

ゆるく、ゆるく、ゆるくからの形容詞。

loose

loose: [13] Loose is one of a large family of words that go back ultimately to Indo-European *lau-, *leu-, *lu-, which denoted ‘undoing’. It includes (via Greek) analyse and paralyse, (via Latin) dissolve and solution, and (via Germanic) lose and the suffix -less. Loose itself was borrowed from Old Norse laus, which was descended from a prehistoric Germanic *lausaz.
=> analyse, dissolve, lose, paralyse, solution

loose (adj.)

early 13c., "not securely fixed;" c. 1300, "unbound," from Old Norse lauss "loose, free, vacant, dissolute," cognate with Old English leas "devoid of, false, feigned, incorrect," from Proto-Germanic *lausaz (cognates: Danish l?s "loose, untied," Swedish l?s "loose, movable, detached," Middle Dutch, German los "loose, free," Gothic laus "empty, vain"), from PIE *leu- "to loosen, divide, cut apart" (see lose). Meaning "not clinging, slack" is mid-15c. Meaning "not bundled" is late 15c. Sense of "unchaste, immoral" is recorded from late 15c. Meaning "at liberty, free from obligation" is 1550s. Sense of "rambling, disconnected" is from 1680s. Figurative sense of loose cannon was in use by 1896, probably from celebrated image in a popular story by Hugo:

You can reason with a bull dog, astonish a bull, fascinate a boa, frighten a tiger, soften a lion; no resource with such a monster as a loose cannon. You cannot kill it, it is dead; and at the same time it lives. It lives with a sinister life which comes from the infinite. It is moved by the ship, which is moved by the sea, which is moved by the wind. This exterminator is a plaything. [Victor Hugo, "Ninety Three"]

Loose end in reference to something unfinished, undecided, unguarded is from 1540s; to be at loose ends is from 1807. Phrase on the loose "free, unrestrained" is from 1749 (upon the loose).

loose (v.)

early 13c, "to set free," from loose (adj.). Meaning "to undo, untie, unfasten" is 14c. Related: Loosed; loosing.

1. She unbound her hair and let it flow loose in the wind.

彼女は髪をほどいて、風になびかせた。

2.She gathered loose soil and let it filter slowly through her fingers.

彼女はゆるい土を持ち上げ、指の間からゆっくりと漏れるようにした。

3.She was pretty and young,in a loose smocked sundress.

彼女は若くて美しく、ゆったりとした刺繍の太陽のスカートを着ている。

4.A man-eating lion is on the loose somewhere in England.

イングランドから人を食べるライオンが飛び出してきた。

5.A gust of wind pried loose a section of sheet-metal roofing.

激しい風が屋根に敷かれた金属片を巻き上げた。