What's the difference between dead and live?

Dead


Definition:

  • (a.) Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man.
  • (a.) Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.
  • (a.) Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.
  • (a.) Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight.
  • (a.) So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor.
  • (a.) Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade.
  • (a.) Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.
  • (a.) Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead wall.
  • (a.) Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty.
  • (a.) Bringing death; deadly.
  • (a.) Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith; dead works.
  • (a.) Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect.
  • (a.) Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson.
  • (a.) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.
  • (a.) Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle.
  • (adv.) To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly.
  • (n.) The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter.
  • (n.) One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively.
  • (v. t.) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor.
  • (v. i.) To die; to lose life or force.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The number of dead from the bombing has been put at up to 1,654.
  • (2) 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.
  • (3) Comparisons of ICR locations were made between flexion and extension, between left and right limbs, and between living and dead dogs, using analysis of variance.
  • (4) Transient intermediates were distinguished from dead-end metabolites by the rapid formation and disappearance of the former.
  • (5) A further 23 Syrian Kurds , among them women and children, were shot dead in the nearby village of Barkh Butan, the group said.
  • (6) Pathologic examination demonstrates calcifications in the dead collagen that makes up catgut suture.
  • (7) The results of the study suggest that perhaps tobramycin of cefotaxime-impregnated PMMA beads would produce local levels of antibiotic high enough to sterilize a given dead space for a period of 28 days.
  • (8) One of the most recent was in June last year, when a boatload of anglers came across a dead 23ft squid off Port Salerno on the state's Atlantic coast.
  • (9) The move was confirmed by a Lib Dem aide, who said Tory claims to be green were "already a lame duck and are now dead in the water".
  • (10) No names of the dead or injured have been published.
  • (11) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
  • (12) It was found that the increase of AMI patients admitted to our hospital was due to an increase in the hospitalization rate of AMI patients and the establishment of the coronary care unit (CCU) which allowed the admittance of patients who might have been declared dead out-of-hospital in the past.
  • (13) He was fighting to breathe.” The decision on her father’s case came just 10 days after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, found there was not enough evidence to indict a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager called Michael Brown.
  • (14) Nine of these patients are dead; four are alive, with three of these having progressive disease.
  • (15) In 2009, a US army major shot 13 dead in Fort Hood, Texas .
  • (16) Among the dead were two young young officers, Major Mujahid Ali and Captain Usman, whose life stories the media seized upon, helped by the military's public relations machine.
  • (17) The Nigerian government has been heavily criticised for failing to protect civilians in an increasingly violent conflict that left about 10,000 dead last year.
  • (18) Twenty-two per cent of all deaths (10 children who died outside hospital and six who were certified dead on admission) occurred before specialist care was reached.
  • (19) necrobiotic and dead cells, cell debris and phagosomes appear electively fluorescent.
  • (20) Byrom had been scheduled to die by lethal injection last week for hiring a man to shoot dead her abusive husband, Edward, at their home in Iuka in June 1999.

Live


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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
  • (2) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
  • (3) It afflicted 312,000 people and claimed 3200 lives.
  • (4) "As the investigation remains live and in order to preserve the integrity of that investigation, it would not be appropriate to offer further comment."
  • (5) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
  • (6) An “out” vote would severely disrupt our lives, in an economic sense and a private sense.
  • (7) This time is approximately six months for the neuroleptics given orally, one month for antidepressants, and five and a half half-lives for benzodiazepines.
  • (8) Since 1987, it has become possible to obtain immature ova from the living animal and to let them mature, fertilize and develop into embryos capable of transplantation outside the body.
  • (9) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
  • (10) Issues such as healthcare and the NHS, food banks, energy and the general cost of living were conspicuous by their absence.
  • (11) Q In radioactive decay, different materials decay at different rates, giving different half lives.
  • (12) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
  • (13) Several interpretations of the results are examined including the possibility that the effects of Valium use were short-lived rather than long-term and that Valium may have been taken in anticipation of anxiety rather than after its occurrence.
  • (14) Perelman is currently unemployed and lives a frugal life with his mother in St Petersburg.
  • (15) What we’re doing is designed to improve people’s lives.” "I don't see race, colour or creed, and neither do my children," he added.
  • (16) "We do not yet live in a society where the police or any other officers of the law are entitled to detain people without reasonable justification and demand their papers," Gardiner wrote.
  • (17) However, he has also insisted that North Korea live up to its own commitments, adhere to its international obligations and deal peacefully with its neighbours.
  • (18) Hemoglobin British Columbia was found in an East Indian living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  • (19) It became just like a soap opera: "When Brookside started it was about Scousers living next to each other and in five years' time there were bombs going off and three people buried under the patio."
  • (20) The Coalition promises to add more misery to their lives.

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