loose connection

collocation in English

meaningsoflooseandconnection

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loose
adjective
uk
/luːs/us
/luːs/
not firmly held or fastened ...
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connection
noun
uk
/kəˈnek.ʃən/us
/kəˈnek.ʃən/
the state of being related to someone or ...
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(Definition oflooseandconnectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofloose connection

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I have alooseconnectionwith the matter.
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There seems to be an electrical fault of some sort in the microphone system, or alooseconnectionsomewhere.
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They represent a heterogeneous collection of proposals, but it is very difficult to discern a common thread other than alooseconnectionwith the cultural sector.
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Alooseconnectionbetween the bell stay and the bell is thought key to a resonant bell, and thus a better sackbut sound.
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However, several successful large-scale businesses, and, were founded in and operate from the village, keeping it from becoming alooseconnectionof farms.
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Another distinguishing feature of urocordylids is thelooseconnectionbetween the bones of the skull.
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There is only a verylooseconnectionbetween the bols and their technique.
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This series maintains only an occasional andlooseconnectionto the continuity of the two previous series.
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Although many of these references share only the name and alooseconnectionwith supernatural and or evil with the source.
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This is made possible by alooseconnectionbetween the quadrate and its neighboring bones.
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Underlying the mucous membrane in the mouth is a thin layer of smooth muscle tissue and thelooseconnectionto the membrane gives it its great elasticity.
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These aspects, along with others, are fully exploited in speech play, including loose connections among the three types of signs: symbols, icons, and indexes.
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That having been said, it is also true that unemphatic and loose connections between terror and memory disturbance are noted in medical case histories as early as the 1830s.
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Rather, one observes pockets of dense connections (direct interactions) among small subsets of components, but only loose connections between these densely connected subsets.
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All of this resulted in overheated and loose connections, and this in turn resulted in some fires.
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Aluminum and steel both expand and contract at different rates under thermal load, so a connection can become loose, and loose connections get progressively worse over time.
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