lost and found
1200 I
have got lost in the post. AilAfto
3 [usually
before noun] that cannot be obtained; that cannot be found or created again ft;
3\
ft ; , ft : The strike cost them
thousands of
pounds in lost business. 7 & ft £
Mo ,0 She’s trying to recapture her lost youth. il. 0i$r A ft W # o o He regretted the lost (= wasted) opportunity
to
apologize to her. ftk/o tiRaM T ift Milft ft^/L^o 4 [not
before noun] unable to deal successfully with a particular situation A #r fa ; We
would be lost without your help. f^lX&^#ft^ft«fc£- — o I felt
so lost after my mother died.
o
o He’s a
lost
soul (= a person who does not seem to know what
to do, and seems unhappy). ftfeMAilffift Ao 5 [not before noun] unable to
understand sth because it is too complicated # A IS; B : They spoke so quickly I
just got lost. iMJ iii 0 Hang on a minute— I’m lost. # — T<» M $fc#f 6. o — see also lose v.(7) limn all is not lost there is still some
hope of making a bad situation better be lost for 'words
to
be so surprised, confused, etc. that you do not know what to say ( tHiU,
BJS^ffl ) A^fliftfF A A£F be 'lost in sth to be giving all your
attention to sth so that you do not notice what is happening around you 1% fi; iff MX: to be lost in thought pgAiffiS be 'lost on sb to be not understood
or noticed by sb A3.1#
( ) : His jokes were completely lost on most of
the students. jffei#ft^i$be lost to the 'world to be giving all your
attention to sth so that you do not notice what is happening around you ( ) A&fcfflHft^Mt get 'lost
(,informal)
a rude way of telling sb to go away, or of refusing sth ( ikA£XftA*L$ftiM;;)
®?f, S'JAMHc give sb up for 'lost {formal) to stop expecting to
find sb alive iAA3£AMA££Eft Rlli; iAff-^AS^E make up for lost 'time to do sth quickly or
very often because you wish you had started doing it sooner (
\ck ) ^hAAftBtlB] — more at love n.
.lost
and 'found noun [u] {NAmE) = lostproperty(2) .lost 'cause noun something that has
failed or that cannot succeed Af&ft¥1f; iW#Mft¥1t .lost 'property noun [U] {BrE) 1
items that have been found in public places and are waiting to be collected by
the people who lost them ( -j-'-ff A. A fk % Jiff
ft ) A $}: a
lost-property office 2 (NAmE .lost and
'found) the place where items that have been found are kept
until they are collected lot On /lot; NAmElait/ pron., det., adv., noun m pron. a lot (also informal lots) ~ (to do) a large number or
amount AM; : ‘How many do you need?’ ‘A lot.’ “ Ffc flS ic ^ 'P ? ” “ FS „ ” 0 Have some more cake.
There’s lots left. U Hfc $ & HU d 2E M A ft £ %„ o She still has an awful lot {= a very large amount) to learn. Mlc^fti'E^it'Mo 0 He has invited nearly a
hundred people but a lot aren’t able to come. HA^-'lf
A, AfRAATo o note at many, much
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det. a lot of (also informal lots of) a large number or
amount
of sb/sth AM; : What a lot of presents!
Xcm
JCAPH! 0 A lot of people are coming to the meeting. A® A AiFA#j]niAAAiA o black coffee with lots of
sugar
Xin^^,#C$tftl!M 0 I saw a lot of her (= I saw her often) last summer. AXHAfSIr:#
jSJ'JfttL note at MANY, MUCH
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adv. {informal) 1 a lot (also informal lots) used with adjectives
and adverbs to mean ‘much’ (
)
fit, ##: I’m
feeling a lot better today. o I eat
lots less than I used to.
% A £ T o 2 a lot used with verbs to
mean ‘a great amount’ ( -fej ft is] ffj ) # :
I care
a lot about you.
o
Thanks
a lot for your help. ft ft <, 0 I play tennis quite a lot (= often) in the summer. JC A o note at much
mnoun
► WHOLE AMOUNT/NUMBER 1 the lot , the whole
lot [sing.+sing./pl. v.] (informal) the whole
number or amount of people or things £ ^ §[S; if: He’s
bought a new PC, colour printer, scanner—the lot. fik A
7Sf*htAfc*L
m&nmn, asm, ocet
out of my house, the lot of you! ifiifi
ffri!
o That’s the lot! (= that includes everything) XfPitliJLTo o That’s
your lot! (= that’s all you’re getting) FftftSSfXILMAIULTr
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GROUP/SET f 2 [C+sing./pl. v.) (especially BrE) a group or set of
people or things ( • • ). M., fiX ttt, Sh The first
o
f have
several lots of essays to mark this weekend. iAMl A S A IL loCf f
[W o 0 (informal)
What do you lot want? ||lfA« m?
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ITEMS TO BE SOLD fTH^Jnn 3 [C] an item or a
number of items to be sold, especially at an auction f# H (A nn ;
(
Aft’) WiM p°p :
A
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AREA OF LAND 4 [C]
an area of land used for a
particular
purpose ( fi^#ff];$sft )-XAUfe, %jMi: a parking lot 0 a vacant lot (— one available to
be
built
on or used for sth) • $ Itfe 0 (especially NAmE)
We’re going to build a house on this lot.
ffe tilia O
note at land
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LUCK/SITUATION jg A ; Jt U 5 [sing.] a person’s
luck or situation in life ^ lg; A fit ^!A #1 Ei7TI destiny : She was feeling dissatisfied with her lot. g Bft'np’lg^i'J
rm all 'over the lot {NAmE) = all over the place at place n. a bad 'lot {old-fashioned, BrE) a person who is
dishonest Ail^ft A; A by 'lot using a method of choosing sb to do sth in
which each person takes a piece of paper, etc. from a container and the one
whose paper has a special mark is chosen ^; M N draw/cast lots (for sth/to do sth) to choose sb/sth by
lot ) ; MW ( ) : They drew lots for the
right to go first. fall to sb’s 'lot
(to
do sth) {formal) to become sb’s task
or responsibility $A&Aftte# ( ) ; »J£AiPi
k throw
in
your
lot with sb to
decide to join sb and share their successes and problems —more at
best n.
,lo-‘tech
adj. = low-tech
loth
=
LOATH
Loth-ario
/la'Beariau;
la'Gairiao; NAmE la'Beriou; l0'9a:riou/ noun {pi. -os) a man who has sex with
a lot of women jg AA : He has a reputation as the office Lothario, fife# A & S M SIM
M & 7£ fto MiTCTTl From the name of a character in an 18 th
century play by Nicholas Rowe. M ft 18 *jSt»r • ^Mftt
M<JAtr/#rs*o
lo
tion fldufn;
NAmE ’loujn/
noun [C, U] a liquid used
for cleaning, protecting or treating the skin
nk IL: (a)
body/hand lotion 0
suntan lotion pjjBgiH
lotta
/'lota;
NAmE 'laita/ (also lotsa /'lDtsa; NAmE ’laitsa/) {informal, non-standard) a written form of
‘lot of ’ or ‘lots of’ that shows how it sounds in informal speech : We’re gonna have a lotta
fun. f|j
^ Ijl # # JF 0 liT3lJ You should not write
this form unless you are copying somebody’s speech. Aid^MiSo lot-tery /'lntari; NAmE 'la:t-/ noun {pi. -ies) 1 [C] a way of raising
money for a government, charity, etc. by selling tickets that have different
numbers on them that people have chosen. Numbers are then chosen by chance and
the people who have those numbers on their tickets win prizes. (
^H$fft
) the national/state lottery
j£
H
ft / j'lj ft ^ IS M % o a lottery ticket BM — compare draw n.(3), raffle /?. 2 [sing.] (often disapproving) a situation whose
success or result is based on luck rather than on effort or careful
organization Ft Is R ft ♦ ES771 gamble : Some people think that marriage is a lottery. M
IS A U jj'm
H ft M is H«, — see also postcode
LOTTERY
lotto
/'lDtau;
NAmE 'laitoo/ noun {pi. lottos) 1 [U] a game of
chance similar to bingo but with
the numbers drawn from a container by the players instead of being called out « 2 [C] a lottery BM