(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.
Menagerie
Definition:
(n.) A piace where animals are kept and trained.
(n.) A collection of wild or exotic animals, kept for exhibition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alcor has a reputation for celebrity clients, while KrioRus offers budget service, probably due to its communal approach to storage, with bodies sharing tanks with a menagerie of 20 or so pets (cats, dogs, birds) that owners have paid to preserve.
(2) Kids have to populate a zoo with colourful animals by folding them (virtually) together following on-screen prompts, then keep the menagerie occupied with items.
(3) Carroll takes on two fellow Britons in the best director category – Michael Grandage for The Cripple of Inishmaan and John Tiffany for The Glass Menagerie.
(4) Six dogs, six cats, rabbits and white rats make up a menagerie of slobbering, purring affection, punctuated by squawks from the geese as they flee the Rottweiler.
(5) It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.
(6) Twelfth Night leads the field in the drama categories alongside John Tiffany's The Glass Menagerie, which also has seven.
(7) Start a menagerie What else would you want to do in your own garden but create your own zoo?
(8) Our previous visits to these vents with remotely operated vehicles have already yielded a menagerie of new deep-sea species.
(9) But its wild menagerie should be enough to ensure a colourful, controversial edition of the world's oldest film festival.
(10) (“Gosh,” murmurs Roy, as he gazes at a menagerie of living puppets and dolls, “you’ve really got nice toys here.”) It’s as children that we perhaps learn to warm to them, for all their chilling potentiality for violence.
(11) All she wanted was a home for herself and her husband, and her growing menagerie of rescue animals.
(12) Life During Wartime revisits this menagerie 10 years on.
(13) James, who kept a menagerie of exotic animals here and put his need to build huge towers down to “pure megalomania”, never completed his tropical shrine to surrealism but his fantasy realm remains a joy to explore.
(14) If that payroll shrinks, fears will grow that the building could symbolise the first of many white elephants in a new menagerie.
(15) The campaign reportedly involved a menagerie of contractors: Booz Allen Hamilton, a billion-dollar intelligence industry player and Snowden's former employer; Palantir , a PayPal-inspired and -funded outfit that sells "data-mining and analysis software that maps out human social networks for counterintelligence purposes"; and HBGary Federal , an aspirant consultancy in the intelligence sector.
(16) There, you will find not only a fascinating video of Big Dog in action, but also confirmation that its maker has a menagerie of mechanical beasts, some of them humanoid in form, others resembling predatory animals.
(17) The others on the shortlist were Carol Birch for her much-admired Jamrach's Menagerie , a historical high seas adventure; two Canadian writers - Patrick deWitt for The Sisters Brothers , a picaresque western, and Esi Edugyan for Half Blood Blues , which mixes the raw beauty of jazz and the terror of Nazism; and two debut novels – Stephen Kelman for Pigeon English , which tells the story of a Ghanaian boy who turns detective on a south London housing estate; and AD Miller for Snowdrops , a Moscow-set tale of corruption and moral decline.
(18) Over only a few decades of bioscience, our "new normal" could be closer to that menagerie of mutants and cyborgs that you see in the average Star Trek street scene than it might be to the muttonchopped visitors to the Crystal Palace.
(19) Even accepting that culling animals is routine in modern zookeeping, given the conflict between cage size and the commercial requirement for replacement babies, the existence of Gill’s menagerie, with its deprivation and mortality, is hard to square with, say, British donkey sanctuaries.
(20) But surely there could be nothing more apt: a mythical beast to join the capital's long lost menageries – like the medieval Barbary lions of the Tower of London, or the elephants and zebras of the Exeter Exchange on the Strand in the 18th century.