(n.) The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that state of an animal or plant in which all or any of its organs are capable of performing all or any of their functions; -- used of all animal and vegetable organisms.
(n.) Of human beings: The union of the soul and body; also, the duration of their union; sometimes, the deathless quality or existence of the soul; as, man is a creature having an immortal life.
(n.) The potential principle, or force, by which the organs of animals and plants are started and continued in the performance of their several and cooperative functions; the vital force, whether regarded as physical or spiritual.
(n.) Figuratively: The potential or animating principle, also, the period of duration, of anything that is conceived of as resembling a natural organism in structure or functions; as, the life of a state, a machine, or a book; authority is the life of government.
(n.) A certain way or manner of living with respect to conditions, circumstances, character, conduct, occupation, etc.; hence, human affairs; also, lives, considered collectively, as a distinct class or type; as, low life; a good or evil life; the life of Indians, or of miners.
(n.) Animation; spirit; vivacity; vigor; energy.
(n.) That which imparts or excites spirit or vigor; that upon which enjoyment or success depends; as, he was the life of the company, or of the enterprise.
(n.) The living or actual form, person, thing, or state; as, a picture or a description from the life.
(n.) A person; a living being, usually a human being; as, many lives were sacrificed.
(n.) The system of animal nature; animals in general, or considered collectively.
(n.) An essential constituent of life, esp. the blood.
(n.) A history of the acts and events of a life; a biography; as, Johnson wrote the life of Milton.
(n.) Enjoyment in the right use of the powers; especially, a spiritual existence; happiness in the favor of God; heavenly felicity.
(n.) Something dear to one as one's existence; a darling; -- used as a term of endearment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The significance of minor increases in the serum creatinine level must be recognized, so that modifications of drug therapy can be made and correction of possibly life-threatening electrolyte imbalances can be undertaken.
(2) This study compares the mortality of U.S. white males with that of Swedish males who have had the highest reported male life expectancies in the world since the early 1960s.
(3) Oculomotor paresis with cyclic spasms is a rare syndrome, usually noticeable at birth or developing during the first year of life.
(4) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(5) The half-life of 45Ca in the various calcium fractions of both types of bone was 72 hours in both the control and malnourished groups except the calcium complex portion of the long bone of the control group, which was about 100 hours.
(6) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
(7) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(8) Graft life is even more prolonged with patch angioplasty at venous outflow stenoses or by adding a new segment of PTFE to bypass areas of venous stenosis.
(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) The present findings indicate that the deafferented [or isolated] hypothalamus remains neuronally isolated from the environment if the operation is carried out later than the end of the first week of life.
(11) Periodontal diseases are a collection of disorders that may affect patients throughout life.
(12) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
(13) The west Africa Ebola epidemic “Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage,” he said.
(14) We have evaluated the life-span of B lymphocytes by measuring the functional reactivity of normal B cells upon transfer into xid mice, which do not respond to anti-mu, fluoresceinated-Ficoll (FL-Ficoll) and 2,4,6-trinitrophenyl aminoethylcarbamylmethyl Ficoll (TNP-Ficoll).
(15) The half-life of the enzyme at 85 degrees C was 40 min.
(16) The half-life was very variable between subjects [2-8 hours], but less variable within subjects and it was unaffected by the formulation.
(17) Median effect analysis was applied for the evaluation of in vitro effect by the growth inhibition, and the in vivo effect by comparison of the increase of life span (ILS) in a combined group with the sum of ILS's in 2 single agent groups.
(18) In addition to the 89 cases of sudden and unexpected death before the age of 50 (preceded by some modification of the patient's life style in 29 cases), 11 cases were symptomatic and 5 were transplanted with a good result.
(19) Perelman is currently unemployed and lives a frugal life with his mother in St Petersburg.
(20) If Bennett were sentenced today under the new law, he likely would not receive a life sentence.
Lifeboat
Definition:
(n.) A strong, buoyant boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people.
Example Sentences:
(1) Earlier today Liz Sandeman, a marine mammal medic who went out in a lifeboat to examine the whale, said: "It looks quite healthy and quite relaxed.
(2) Titanic's trailer is two minutes 37 seconds of lifeboat-related stampeding intercut with women swishing about in big hats doing seasick Dowager Countess expressions.
(3) An uncle of one of the crew members from the El Faro says the ship was equipped with modern lifeboats.
(4) A rope is visible between the two vessels, and an inflatable boat and what appears to be an Australian warship are flanking the lifeboat.
(5) The government is buying 16 large hard-hulled lifeboats, similar to those found on oil tankers and cruise ships, to be used to send asylum seekers back towards Indonesia if their own vessel is unseaworthy, according to Fairfax Media reports published on Wednesday .
(6) Apart from when they were advised of the plan to dump them in orange lifeboats somewhere off the coast of India, they had no idea where they were and no idea where our government was going to send them.
(7) The development appears to be confirmation that Australian border protection authorities have begun using lifeboats to return asylum seekers to Indonesia, after the commander of Operation Sovereign Borders confirmed on Wednesday that a number of such vessels had been acquired.
(8) In the case of Landon Donovan, it was more of a lifeboat.
(9) Among those on board the large, fully encapsulted lifeboat are at least one woman and one child as well as a number of men.
(10) The Indonesian foreign minister, Marty Natalegawa, said sending asylum seekers back in lifeboats was the start of a slippery slope.
(11) This is what happened with the first lifeboat used by the Ocean Protector.
(12) If we arrive at the place where we hope to arrive, there will be no requirement for [industry lifeboat] the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) [to step in],” he said.
(13) Last month it was alleged that three asylum seekers died whilst crossing a jungle river following a lifeboat turnback.
(14) Lawyers for the asylum seekers, who were held in windowless rooms for 21 hours a day, say the detained group were instructed on how to use lifeboats to return to India.
(15) It will be a big job, a task summarised by one Scottish blogger, who reckons Fred the Shred should be ranked alongside Bruce Ismay - the managing director of the White Star Line who grabbed a place on one of the Titanic's lifeboats, leaving his staff and customers to drown.
(16) These operations begin with an order from one of the command centres involved in Operation Sovereign Borders to deploy a lifeboat for the return of a group of asylum seekers.
(17) All that is left of the lifeboat station at Hemsby, Norfolk, after the storm.
(18) An announcement could be made as early as next week, but the deal depends on a major restructuring of the British Steel Pension Scheme that has been criticised by the Pension Protection Fund (PPF), the government-backed pensions lifeboat.
(19) There are times in life when the sea is more attractive than the lifeboat.
(20) Flood rescue teams from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and North Wales Fire and Rescue Service are now conducting street by street searches to ensure no one is left behind in the bungalows under water in Rhyl, north Wales.