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What's The Definition Of Live?
[adv] not recorded; "the opera was broadcast live"
[adj] having life; "a live canary"; "hit a live nerve"; "famous living painters"; "living tissue"; "living plants and animals" [adj] showing characteristics of life; exerting force or containing energy; "live coals"; "tossd 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] (electricity) charged or energized with electricity; "a hot wire"; "a live wire" [adj] of current relevance; "a live issue"; "still a live option" [adj] (printing) in current use or ready for use; "live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread" [adj] (informal) abounding with life and energy; "the club members are a really live bunch" [adj] rebounds readily; "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively tennis ball"; "as resiliant as seasoned hickory"; "springy turf" [adj] actually being performed (or--for the audience--present) at the time of 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" [v] have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces" [v] have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war" [v] lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style; "we had to live frugally after the war" [v] pursue a positive and satisfying existence; "You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live" [v] support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day" [v] continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The racecar driver lived through several very serious accidents" [v] make one's home or live in; "There are only 250,000 people in Iceland"; "I live in a 200-year old house"; "These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted"; "The plains are sparsely populated" Synonyms | Synonyms for Live: alive(p) | be | bouncy | charged | current | domicile | domiciliate | dwell | elastic | experience | glowing(a) | hot | in play(p) | inhabit | know | lively | living | living(a) | loaded | people | populate | reside | resilient | shack | smoldering | smouldering | springy | subsist | unfilmed | unrecorded | untaped | whippy Related Terms | Find terms related to Live: abide | ablaze | aboveground | active | activist | activistic | actual | afire | aflame | aflicker | aglow | alight | alive | alive and kicking | among the living | animate | animated | ardent | Be | be alive | be animate | be extant | be found | be in existence | be met with | be present | be somebody | be something | be the case | be there | berth | bide | blazing | bouncing | bouncy | breathe | breathing | breezy | brisk | bubbly | bunk | burning | busy | candent | candescent | capable of life | carry on | charged | chipper | cohabit | comburent | combustible | complete | conclude | conflagrant | conscious | contemporary | continue | continue to be | current | cut a dash | cut a figure | defeat time | defy time | dig | domicile | domiciliate | doss down | draw breath | dwell | dynamic | ebullient | effective | effectual | effervescent | efficacious | efficient | electrified | end | endowed with life | endure | energetic | enlivened | exist | existent | explosive | extend | fare | fetch breath | figure | finish | flagrant | flaming | flaring | flickering | flourish | frisky | full of go | full of life | full of pep | fuming | function | functioning | get along | gleam | glitter | glow | glowing | go on | guttering | hang out | happen to be | have being | have life | have place | high-tension | hold | hold on | hold out | hot | ignescent | ignited | in a blaze | in a glow | in flames | in the flesh | incandescent | inflamed | inhabit | inspirited | instinct with life | keep | keep on | kindled | last | last long | last out | live and breathe | live on | live through | lively | living | loaded | lodge | long-lived | maintain | make a figure | make a splash | material | mercurial | militant | move | nest | obtain | occupy | occur | on fire | operative | palpable | peppy | perch | perdure | perennate | perky | persevere | persist | pert | physical | prevail | quick | quicksilver | real | red-hot | reeking | remain | reside | respire | room | roost | run | run on | running | scintillant | scintillating | shine | smacking | smoking | smoldering | snappy | spanking | sparking | spend | spirited | sprightly | spry | squat | stand | stay | stay on | subsist | survive | sustain | tangible | tarry | tenacious of life | tenant | tide over | unextinguished | unquenched | very much alive | viable | vigorous | vital | vivacious | vivified | walk the earth | wear | wear well | white-hot | working | zingy | zoetic See Also | bach | bachelor | bivouac | board | breathe | buccaneer | bushwhack | camp | camp out | cohabit | dissipate | drift | eke out | encamp | exist | freewheel | go through | hold water | indwell | live down | live in | live out | live over | lodge | lodge in | move | neighbor | neighbour | occupy | overpopulate | perennate | pig | pig it | relive | room | rusticate | see | shack up | sleep in | sleep out | stand up | swing | tent | undergo | unlive | vegetate | wanton Live In Webster's Dictionary \Live\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lived}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Living}.] [OE. liven, livien, AS. libban, lifian; akin to
OS. libbian, D. leven, G. leben, OHG. leb[=e]n, Dan. leve,
Sw. lefva, Icel. lifa to live, to be left, to remain, Goth.
liban to live; akin to E. leave to forsake, and life, Gr.
liparei^n to persist, liparo`s oily, shining, sleek, li`pos
fat, lard, Skr. lip to anoint, smear; -- the first sense
prob. was, to cleave to, stick to; hence, to remain, stay;
and hence, to live.]
1. 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.
Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I
will . . . lay sinews upon you, and will bring up
flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put
breath in you, and ye shall live. --Ezek.
xxxvii. 5, 6.
2. 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.
O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a
man that liveth at rest in his possessions!
--Ecclus. xli.
1.
3. To make one's abiding place or home; to abide; to dwell;
to reside.
Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years.
--Gen. xlvii.
28.
4. To be or continue in existence; to exist; to remain; to be
permanent; to last; -- said of inanimate objects, ideas,
etc.
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We
write in water. --Shak.
5. To enjoy or make the most of life; to be in a state of
happiness.
What greater curse could envious fortune give Than
just to die when I began to live? --Dryden.
6. To feed; to subsist; to be nourished or supported; -- with
on; as, horses live on grass and grain.
7. To have a spiritual existence; to be quickened, nourished,
and actuated by divine influence or faith.
The just shall live by faith. --Gal. iii.
ll.
8. To be maintained in life; to acquire a livelihood; to
subsist; -- with on or by; as, to live on spoils.
Those who live by labor. --Sir W.
Temple.
9. To outlast danger; to float; -- said of a ship, boat,
etc.; as, no ship could live in such a storm.
A strong mast that lived upon the sea. --Shak.
{To live out}, to be at service; to live away from home as a
servant. [U. S.]
{To live with}.
(a) To dwell or to be a lodger with.
(b) To cohabit with; to have intercourse with, as male
with female.
\Live\, v. t. 1. 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. 2. To act habitually in conformity with; to practice. To live the Gospel. --Foxe. {To live down}, to live so as to subdue or refute; as, to live down slander. \Live\, a. [Abbreviated from alive. See {Alive}, {Life}.] 1. Having life; alive; living; not dead. If one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it. --Ex. xxi. 35. 2. Being in a state of ignition; burning; having active properties; as, a live coal; live embers. `` The live ether.'' --Thomson. 3. Full of earnestness; active; wide awake; glowing; as, a live man, or orator. 4. Vivid; bright. `` The live carnation.'' --Thomson. 5. (Engin.) Imparting power; having motion; as, the live spindle of a lathe. {Live birth}, the condition of being born in such a state that acts of life are manifested after the extrusion of the whole body. --Dunglison. {Live box}, a cell for holding living objects under microscopical examination. --P. H. Gosse. {Live feathers}, feathers which have been plucked from the living bird, and are therefore stronger and more elastic. {Live gang}. (Sawing) See under {Gang}. {Live grass} (Bot.), a grass of the genus {Eragrostis}. {Live load} (Engin.), a suddenly applied load; a varying load; a moving load; as a moving train of cars on a bridge, or wind pressure on a roof. {Live oak} (Bot.), a species of oak ({Quercus virens}), growing in the Southern States, of great durability, and highly esteemed for ship timber. In California the {Q. chrysolepis} and some other species are also called live oaks. {Live ring} (Engin.), a circular train of rollers upon which a swing bridge, or turntable, rests, and which travels around a circular track when the bridge or table turns. {Live steam}, steam direct from the boiler, used for any purpose, in distinction from {exhaust steam}. {Live stock}, horses, cattle, and other domestic animals kept on a farm. whole body. \Live\, n. Life. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {On live}, in life; alive. [Obs.] See {Alive}. --Chaucer. |
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