What's the difference between alive and exist?

Alive


Definition:

  • (a.) Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.
  • (a.) In a state of action; in force or operation; unextinguished; unexpired; existent; as, to keep the fire alive; to keep the affections alive.
  • (a.) Exhibiting the activity and motion of many living beings; swarming; thronged.
  • (a.) Sprightly; lively; brisk.
  • (a.) Having susceptibility; easily impressed; having lively feelings, as opposed to apathy; sensitive.
  • (a.) Of all living (by way of emphasis).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As of November, 1988 after a median observation period of 34 months, 174 of the 256 patients (68%) were alive, 11 (4%) dead and 71 (28%) lost to follow-up.
  • (2) He was burnt alive along with three customers as flames from the car set his carpet shop ablaze.
  • (3) Seven patients have not shown evidence of dissemination, and five are alive 1--15 years (median 9 years) after diagnosis.
  • (4) Nine of these patients are dead; four are alive, with three of these having progressive disease.
  • (5) In two patients with extensive marrow necrosis, the diagnosis of marrow necrosis was established by morphologic and radioisotopic studies, and the extent of involvement was accurately assessed by marrow scanning with technetium Tc 99m sulfur colloid while the patients were still alive.
  • (6) Sharif Mobley, 30, whose lawyers consider him to be disappeared, managed to call his wife in Philadelphia on Thursday, the first time they had spoken since February and a rare independent proof he is alive since a brief phone call with his mother in July.
  • (7) Approximately 16,000 people were diagnosed with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in 2012 but were not given the treatment they needed to stay alive and prevent the spread of the disease, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.
  • (8) To this day, 10 patients (31%) are alive with a functioning kidney transplant, 16 (50%) are still treated by CPD awaiting a transplant, 5 have died (16%) and one went back to hemodialysis (3%).
  • (9) Six patients (30%) were alive without evidence of recurrent disease at follow-up ranging from 1 to 12 years.
  • (10) Only 13 patients were operable and only four are presently alive.
  • (11) Of the 5985 infants born alive under sole care of a midwife, 3.8% were admitted to hospital.
  • (12) Lion cubs fathered by Cecil, the celebrated lion shot dead in Zimbabwe , may already have been killed by a rival male lion and even if they were still alive there was nothing conservationists could do to protect them, a conservation charity has warned.
  • (13) In classical psychosomatics dualism in medicine is kept alive by considering only so-called "psychosomatic diseases".
  • (14) And if the fathers of Europe, Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman , were alive today, they would see that their aim, to get Europe to move to a proper union through a series of crises, has moved a step closer.
  • (15) At 5 years postoperatively, 122 patients (34.7%) were alive with a better New York Heart Association functional classification than preoperatively.
  • (16) Landrace sows lost less weight during lactation (P less than .05) when fed diet F than when fed diet N. The total number of pigs born, born alive, and alive at 21 d and at weaning were higher (P less than .01) for S-line Duroc sows, and litter size at 21 d and at weaning was higher (P less than .01) for S-line Landrace sows than for C-line litters within each breed.
  • (17) On December 14, 1990, the gastrostomy tube which had kept Nancy alive since the accident was removed and she died 11 days later.
  • (18) So why did the police officers not even leave one of them alive to ask him this question?” Why was he killed?
  • (19) All 15 patients were alive and asymptomatic at the time of writing.
  • (20) Of the 52 patients, 31 survived to leave hospital and all patients known to be alive are leading active and useful lives.

Exist


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.
  • (v. i.) To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.
  • (v. i.) To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist water, nor fishes on land.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
  • (2) The only other evidence of Kopachi's existence is the primary school near the memorial.
  • (3) Subsequently, the study of bundle branch block and A-V block cases revealed that no explicit correlation existed between histopathological changes and functional disturbances nor between disturbances in conduction (i.e.
  • (4) It has recently been suggested that procaine penicillin existed in solution in vitro and in vivo as a "procaine - penicillin" complex rather than as dissociated ions.
  • (5) The data suggest that major differences may exist between ruminants and non-ruminants in the response of liver metabolism both to lactation per se and to the effects of growth hormone and insulin.
  • (6) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
  • (7) These results are discussed in relation to the possible existence of enzyme-bound intermediates of nitrogen fixation.
  • (8) Psychiatry unlike philosophy (with its problem of solipsism) recognizes the existence of other minds from the nonverbal communication between doctor and patient.
  • (9) Over the past decade the use of monoclonal antibodies has greatly advanced our knowledge of the biological properties and heterogeneity that exist within human tumours, and in particular in lung cancer.
  • (10) This suggests that a physiological mechanism exists which can increase the barrier pressure to gastrooesophageal reflux during periods of active secretion of the stomach, as occurs in digestion.
  • (11) After four years of existence, many evaluations were able to show the qualities of this system regarding root canal penetration, cleaning and shaping.
  • (12) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
  • (13) Elongation of existing RNA primers by the human polymerase-primase was semi-processive; following primer binding the DNA polymerase continuously incorporated 20 to 50 nucleotides, then it dissociated from the template DNA.
  • (14) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
  • (15) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
  • (16) Participants were selected from existing classes forming a weight training, aerobic exercise and activity control group.
  • (17) Neurotensin (NT) is an endogenous brain tridecapeptide for which high affinity binding sites exist in the central nervous system.
  • (18) These results are interpreted in terms of the accessory binding site theory of Ariëns, and suggest the existence of different accessory binding sites on the Ascaris GABA receptor.
  • (19) Achilles tendon overuse injuries exist as a spectrum of diseases ranging from inflammation of the paratendinous tissue (paratenonitis), to structural degeneration of the tendon (tendinosis), and finally tendon rupture.
  • (20) Little difference exists between the proportion of programs that offer training in first-trimester techniques and the proportion that train in second-trimester techniques.