"loose end" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "loose ends",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "loose end (plural loose ends)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "92 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "at a loose end"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "at loose ends"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "tie up loose ends"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The end of a rope that has not been fastened."
      ],
      "id": "en-loose_end-en-noun-EG8FsXRL",
      "links": [
        [
          "rope",
          "rope"
        ],
        [
          "fasten",
          "fasten"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "A small job that needs to be done, or minor problem that needs to be resolved, before a task can be considered complete."
      ],
      "id": "en-loose_end-en-noun-bLLLuZoY",
      "links": [
        [
          "job",
          "job"
        ],
        [
          "problem",
          "problem"
        ],
        [
          "task",
          "task"
        ],
        [
          "complete",
          "complete"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, by extension, chiefly in the plural) A small job that needs to be done, or minor problem that needs to be resolved, before a task can be considered complete."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "idiomatic",
        "in-plural"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "a small job that needs to be done, or minor problem that needs to be resolved",
          "word": "elvarratlan szál"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "a small job that needs to be done, or minor problem that needs to be resolved",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ponta solta"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "audio": "En-au-loose end.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/En-au-loose_end.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "loose end"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with audio links"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "at a loose end"
    },
    {
      "word": "at loose ends"
    },
    {
      "word": "tie up loose ends"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "loose ends",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "loose end (plural loose ends)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The end of a rope that has not been fastened."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rope",
          "rope"
        ],
        [
          "fasten",
          "fasten"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small job that needs to be done, or minor problem that needs to be resolved, before a task can be considered complete."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "job",
          "job"
        ],
        [
          "problem",
          "problem"
        ],
        [
          "task",
          "task"
        ],
        [
          "complete",
          "complete"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, by extension, chiefly in the plural) A small job that needs to be done, or minor problem that needs to be resolved, before a task can be considered complete."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "idiomatic",
        "in-plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-loose end.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1b/En-au-loose_end.ogg/En-au-loose_end.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/En-au-loose_end.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a small job that needs to be done, or minor problem that needs to be resolved",
      "word": "elvarratlan szál"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a small job that needs to be done, or minor problem that needs to be resolved",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ponta solta"
    }
  ],
  "word": "loose end"
}