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Lost Cause

Definition: Lost Cause

Lost Cause

Noun

1. A defeated cause or a cause for which defeat is inevitable.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Lost Cause

English words defined with "lost cause": disorient, disorientate. (references)
Specialty definitions using "lost cause": bang pathFUEL-OIL CLERK. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Lost Cause

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)


Lost Cause

Lost Cause is an album by Jandek (1992). Corwood Industries release #0759.

Track Listing:

  1. Babe I Love You
  2. Cellar
  3. Crack a Smile
  4. God Came Between Us
  5. Green and Yellow
  6. How Many Places
  7. I Love You Now It's True
  8. The Electric End

Album Cover Description

Color snapshot of head and shoulders of Boy Jandek, looking about 17 although it's hard to tell, wearing a plaid shirt and standing in front of a curtain (apparently Jandek's liking for drawn curtains is of long standing). His hair is cut conservatively short, the only such photo of him (although he looks a little older than the Follow Your Footsteps cover guitarist, who clearly hadn't had a haircut in quite some time). -- Seth Tisue

Reviews

Side one has 7 non-datable tracks of depressed blues-destroying ramble... Early optimism on the opening tracks transmutes into full desolation by the closing hack-gulps at the end... “The Electric End” is a nineteen-plus minute excursion into frothful extremes. Piercing electro-search guitar, revolutionary ultra-primitive drumming, lost-mind vocalism of real cracked creation and some sort of high end squeal (a penny whistle?) combine in an incredibly wasted fashion.

-- Jimmy Johnson Forced Exposure #18

Outside Links

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Commercial Usage: Lost Cause

DomainTitle

Books

  • Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920 (reference)

  • Jubal: The Life and Times of General Jubal A. Early, Csa, Defender of the Lost Cause (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Lost Cause

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The lost cause. Credit: Library of Congress.

Six advertising labels for "Lost Cause" Pearline, manufactured by Barnum & Starbird, Louisville, K.Y., showing head-and-shoulders portrait photographs of G.T. Beauregard, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, John H. Morgan, Joseph Eggleston Johnston, and Stone. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Spoken Usage: Lost Cause

SpeakerPhrase(s)

John Hartmann

Look, David, I know you're counting on me to play a key role in your hollow charade, but I'm afraid it's a lost cause.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lost Cause

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

lost cause

46
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Lost Cause

Language Translations for "lost cause"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hebrew 

  

ע ין אבו" (hopeless case). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ostlay ausecay

   

Romanian

  

cauzã pierdutã. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

безнадежное дело (forlorn hope). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kaybedilmiş sayılan iş, ümitsiz iş. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự nghiệp chắc chắn thất bại. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Lost Cause

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cassoulet, osculates.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-o-s-s-t-u"

-1 letter: coatless, cutlases, lacteous, lactoses, locustae, osculate, outclass, seascout.

-2 letters: acetous, caestus, caseous, castles, clauses, closest, closets, coteaus, cuestas, cutlass, lactose, locates, locusta, locusts, lotuses, oscules, salutes, solaces, solates, solutes, sulcate, talcose, talcous, taluses, tousles.

-3 letters: acutes, ascots, castes, castle, caules, causes, cestas, cestos, cestus, clasts, clause, cleats, closes, closet, clouts, coasts, coleus, cosets.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-o-s-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: cassoulets, consulates, outclassed, outclasses.

 

+2 letters: inosculates, leucoplasts, sansculotte, speculators.

 

+3 letters: emasculators, postulancies, sansculottes, speculations.

 

+4 letters: autocatalyses, cleistogamous, consultancies, counterblasts, emasculations, gesticulators, nucleotidases, proconsulates, subadolescent, vesiculations.

 

+5 letters: claustrophobes, conceptualises, conceptualisms, conceptualists, constabularies, counterassault, documentalists, encapsulations, gesticulations, overspeculates, subadolescents, subcutaneously.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Lost Cause


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 6F 73 74      43 61 75 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01101111 01110011 01110100 00100000 01000011 01100001 01110101 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#111 &#115 &#116 &#32 &#67 &#97 &#117 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 006F 0073 0074      0043 0061 0075 0073 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4681858623767878571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Spoken
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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