Just Curious Survey: What is the meaning of Love?

as it pertains to tennis.





We don't understand the scoring.





For example, the other day we heard "15, Love".





What on moon does that mean?








FYI Survey results (sic) will be used strictly for marketing research purposes. Mostly.








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Just Curious Survey: What is the meaning of Love?
1. a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.


2. a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend.


3. sexual passion or desire.


4. a person toward whom love is felt; beloved person; sweetheart.


5. (used in direct address as a term of endearment, affection, or the like): Would you like to see a movie, love?


6. a love affair; an intensely amorous incident; amour.


7. sexual intercourse; copulation.


8. (initial capital letter) a personification of sexual affection, as Eros or Cupid.


9. affectionate concern for the well-being of others: the love of one's neighbor.


10. strong predilection, enthusiasm, or liking for anything: her love of books.


11. the object or thing so liked: The theater was her great love.


12. the benevolent affection of God for His creatures, or the reverent affection due from them to God.


13. Chiefly Tennis. a score of zero; nothing.


14. a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter L.


–verb (used with object) 15. to have love or affection for: All her pupils love her.


16. to have a profoundly tender, passionate affection for (another person).


17. to have a strong liking for; take great pleasure in: to love music.


18. to need or require; benefit greatly from: Plants love sunlight.


19. to embrace and kiss (someone), as a lover.


20. to have sexual intercourse with.








But here in planet Laundry Room we like to say the word means "Bumpin' Uglies"
Reply:"Love" comes from the French "l'oeuf" for egg, since that is what a zero is shaped like.
Reply:i think it means 0
Reply:Figures!!





Men found a way to screw us again.


When they say they love us...does that mean nothing?


ZERO!!!!





LOL
Reply:That is an English term for zero. I guess some brainiac high brow paid someone to find another word for "zero."
Reply:It seems to have been adapted from the phrase 'to play for love (of the game)' (that is, to play for nothing). Although the theory is often heard that it represents the French word l'oeuf an 'egg'. The term "love" can also be said to come from the English phrase "neither for love nor for money", however, more recent theories seem to think this is unlikely.