What is the meaning of loose?

verb

• Grant freedom to; free from confinement.
  • synonyms: free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen
• Turn loose or free from restraint.
  • usage: "let loose mines"; "Loose terrible plagues upon humanity"
  • synonyms: unleash, let loose
• Make loose or looser.
  • usage: "loosen the tension on a rope"
  • synonyms: loosen
• Become loose or looser or less tight.
  • usage: "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed"
  • synonyms: loosen, relax

adjective

• Not compact or dense in structure or arrangement.
  • usage: "loose gravel"
• Of a ball in sport. ( not in the possession or control of any player)
  • usage: "a loose ball"
• Not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting.
  • usage: "loose clothing"; "the large shoes were very loose"
• Not officially recognized or controlled.
  • usage: "an informal agreement"; "a loose organization of the local farmers"
  • synonyms: informal
• Not literal.
  • usage: "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem"
  • synonyms: free, liberal
• Emptying easily or excessively.
  • usage: "loose bowels"
  • synonyms: lax
• Not affixed.
  • usage: "the stamp came loose"
  • synonyms: unaffixed
• Not tense or taut.
  • usage: "the old man's skin hung loose and grey"; "slack and wrinkled skin"; "slack sails"; "a slack rope"
  • synonyms: slack
• Of textures. ( full of small openings or gaps)
  • usage: "an open texture"; "a loose weave"
  • synonyms: open
• Lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility.
  • usage: "idle talk"; "a loose tongue"
  • synonyms: idle
• Not carefully arranged in a package.
  • usage: "a box of loose nails"
• Having escaped, especially from confinement.
  • usage: "a convict still at large"; "searching for two escaped prisoners"; "dogs loose on the streets"; "criminals on the loose in the neighborhood"
  • synonyms: at large, escaped, on the loose
• Casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior.
  • usage: "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior"
  • synonyms: easy, light, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton

adverb

• Without restraint.
  • usage: "cows in India are running loose"
  • synonyms: free