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TradIsGood
Happy and Healthy climber
the Gunks end of the country
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May 21, 2007 - 09:46pm PT
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Melissa "loose" is what your clothes get when you lose pounds.
(As an adjective, it of course can describe other things. Of course, you can loose the dogs, or lose your dogs, but that is two different things as well.)
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kuan
Sport climber
CA
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May 22, 2007 - 02:50am PT
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TradisGood,
You are not using "loose" as an adjective in your first example, but rather as a verb. You can LET LOOSE your dogs or LOOSEN your dogs. The latter would be rather difficult, and it would probably be more feasible to LOOSEN your dogs' collars, for example.
But you can't LOOSE your dogs.
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TradIsGood
Happy and Healthy climber
the Gunks end of the country
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May 22, 2007 - 06:16am PT
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kuan, from Oxford English Dictionary.
loose, v.
1. a. trans. To let loose, set free; to release (a person,
an animal, or their limbs) from bonds or physical restraint.
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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May 22, 2007 - 09:26am PT
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Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war,
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.
 William Shakespeare "Julius Caesar"
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nature
climber
Flagstaff, AZ
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Topic Author's Reply - May 22, 2007 - 12:43pm PT
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Rick, one contest you didn't win - the one where you change your location when ever you post!
Well... my scale was a bit nicer to me this fine morning. Down Five pounds in a day! Not sure what's going on there - I was probably more hydrated today than yesterday. I didn't eat hardly at all yesterday and went for a run. Still... I feel rotund (sp?)
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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May 22, 2007 - 12:52pm PT
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I'll start spell checking my Supertopo posts when I start giving a sh#t about making them error-free.
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