loe
Americannoun
Usage
What does loe mean? Loe is a Scottish, or Scots, term meaning love. Loe, pronounced “loo,” can mean a tender, passionate affection for a person. It can be used as an affectionate name for a loved one. For example, your parents might call you loe or you might call a close friend loe. Loe can also mean to have profound affection for, as in “Ae loe yie,” meaning “I love you.”Example: Yae folk have nae idea hou much Ae loe yie.
Example Sentences
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“That would put us out about the period of time, depending on what happens with the LOE, to be in a situation that we have that at the time that we lose exclusivity,” Davis says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 13, 2026
Scientists at LOE focus on conductive plastics, also known as conjugated polymers, to advance fields such as renewable energy and medical technology.
From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2025
"The transmission of terahertz waves in a broad frequency range could be regulated between around 13 % and 91 %, which is a very large modulation range," says Chaoyang Kuang, postdoc at LOE.
From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023
LOE STRACHEY,—ÆTAT 16 From a photograph done at Cannes, about 1876.
From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by Strachey, John St. Loe
LOE STRACHEY, Editor of The Spectator, having gallantly volunteered under the National Service Scheme, had had allotted to him, by one of the DIRECTOR-GENERAL'S subordinates, a post of national importance at Messrs. Bassopp's Brewery.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 14, 1917 by Various
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