Live
[lɪv]
Definition
(verb.) lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style; 'we had to live frugally after the war'.
(verb.) pursue a positive and satisfying existence; 'You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live'.
(adj.) exerting force or containing energy; 'live coals'; 'tossed a live cigarette out the window'; 'got a shock from a live wire'; 'live ore is unmined ore'; 'a live bomb'; 'a live ball is one in play' .
(adj.) of current relevance; 'a live issue'; 'still a live option' .
(adj.) in current use or ready for use; 'live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread' .
(adj.) abounding with life and energy; 'the club members are a really live bunch' .
(adj.) actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing; 'a live television program'; 'brought to you live from Lincoln Center'; 'live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience' .
(adj.) charged with an explosive; 'live ammunition'; 'a live bomb' .
(adj.) highly reverberant; 'a live concert hall' .
(adv.) not recorded; 'the opera was broadcast live'.
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Definition
(v. i.) To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation for a continuance of existence; as, animals and plants that live to a great age are long in reaching maturity.
(v. i.) To pass one's time; to pass life or time in a certain manner, as to habits, conduct, or circumstances; as, to live in ease or affluence; to live happily or usefully.
(v. i.) To make one's abiding place or home; to abide; to dwell; to reside.
(v. i.) To be or continue in existence; to exist; to remain; to be permanent; to last; -- said of inanimate objects, ideas, etc.
(v. i.) To enjoy or make the most of life; to be in a state of happiness.
(v. i.) To feed; to subsist; to be nourished or supported; -- with on; as, horses live on grass and grain.
(v. i.) To have a spiritual existence; to be quickened, nourished, and actuated by divine influence or faith.
(v. i.) To be maintained in life; to acquire a livelihood; to subsist; -- with on or by; as, to live on spoils.
(v. i.) To outlast danger; to float; -- said of a ship, boat, etc.; as, no ship could live in such a storm.
(v. t.) To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually; as, to live an idle or a useful life.
(v. t.) To act habitually in conformity with; to practice.
(a.) Having life; alive; living; not dead.
(a.) Being in a state of ignition; burning; having active properties; as, a live coal; live embers.
(a.) Full of earnestness; active; wide awake; glowing; as, a live man, or orator.
(a.) Vivid; bright.
(a.) Imparting power; having motion; as, the live spindle of a lathe.
(n.) Life.
Typed by Ethan
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Exist, breathe, have being, have life, be alive, keep soul and body together.[2]. Remain, continue, endure, be permanent.[3]. Dwell, abide, reside, have lodgings, have one's quarters, be quartered.[4]. Feed, subsist, be nourished, be supported, obtain a livelihood.[5]. Enjoy life, be happy.
a. Living, alive, not dead.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Animate
ANT:Inanimate, defunct
SYN:Vegetate, grow, survive, continue, abide, dwell, last, subsist, behave, act,breathe, exist
ANT:Die, perish, wither, demise, migrate, vanish, fade, fail, languish, depart,drop, decease
Checker: Sheena
Definition
adj. having life: alive not dead: active: containing fire: burning: vivid.—Lived (līvd) used in compounds as long-lived.—ns. Live′-axle driving-axle; Live′-bait a living worm or minnow used in fishing: Live′-cir′cuit a circuit through which an electric current is flowing.—n.pl. Live′-feath′ers those plucked from the living fowl.—n. Live′-lē′ver that one of a pair of brake-levers to which the power is first applied:—opp. to Dead-lever.—adj. Live′-long that lives or lasts long.—ns. Live′-oak an American oak with durable wood; Live′-shell a shell loaded and fused for firing or fired and not yet exploded; Live′-stock domestic animals esp. horses cattle sheep and pigs; Live′-well the well in a fishing-boat where fish are kept alive.
v.i. to have or continue in life temporal or spiritual: to last subsist: to enjoy life: to direct one's course of life: to be nourished or supported: to dwell.—v.t. to spend: to act in conformity to:—pr.p. liv′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. lived.—adj. Liv′able capable of being lived: habitable.—n. Liv′er.—Live down live so as to cause a slander a grief &c. to be forgotten by one's self or others; Live out to continue alive until the end of anything: (U.S.) to be from home in domestic service; Live under to be tenant to; Live up to to rule one's life according to some standard.
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Examples
- Live the American Garibaldi, said Rinaldi. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Yes, he said, I think that he would rather suffer anything than entertain these false notions and live in this miserable manner. Plato. The Republic.
- His father could not live the week out. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It is I who have been in fault: I ought to have seen that I could not afford to live in this way. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Oh, all he longed, all he prayed for, was that I might live with him! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I continued to live at the Cross of Gold. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- This is what it is to live; he cried, now I enjoy existence! Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- You know, I'm a stranger here, so perhaps I'm not so quick at understanding what you mean as if I'd lived all my life at Milton. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But how has she lived through all these years? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- She has lived for countless ages. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Yet they all had lived and died unconscious of the different fates awaiting their relics. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Whilst his father lived Gerald was not responsible for the world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Houston lived some distance from the town and generally went home late at night, having to pass through a dark cypress swamp over a corduroy road. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He scarcely ever took a meal in the house; he lived in the counting-house. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- By all which acquirements, I should be a living treasure of knowledge and wisdom, and certainly become the oracle of the nation. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Heaven was cloudless, and grand with the quiver of its living fires. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- This growth and dying and reproduction of living things leads to some very wonderful consequences. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the way of getting credit, and living well,' said Mr Lammle. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There seems to be a _limit of growth_ for every kind of living thing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Says Compeyson: 'Why, you fool, don't you know she's got a living body? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- How a living animal obtains its quantity of this fluid, called fire, is a curious question. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I believe that he would have come all the way had it not been that Dr. Ferrier, who lives near me, was going down by that very train. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- A Greek girl, called Helena, who lives in the Island of Fantasy. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He touched his hat politely to the ladies, and remarked that he supposed they had never seen so many live Yankees before in their lives. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- No, John Carter, it is useless, she cried, hopelessly, I may never be yours while Sab Than lives. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Are we to be exposed to this unnatural conduct every moment of our lives? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- You will ruin no more lives as you have ruined mine. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Your officer, Captain Dufranne, is one of them, and the forest man who has saved the lives of every member of my father's party is the other. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
Checker: Velma