(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.
Unlive
Definition:
(v. t.) To //ve in a contrary manner, as a life; to live in a manner contrary to.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are looking to make sure the international community can assist in the resettlement exercise and rebuilding some of the communities.” Climate change is likely to be a massive driver of forced migration over the next century, as densely populated, low-lying areas become unliveable because of rising sea levels, inundation, and salinity.
(2) His agonising efforts to appease his dying father and establish a relationship with his sister, Glory, are so finely grained, so trembling with a sense of life unlived, and without the neat, redemptive ending of the previous novel, that it is a much stronger and more radical piece.
(3) It is a mark of a life unlived, of a childish world view retained.
(4) Kielbasa alleged that renovations created “a situation where the buildings were practically unlivable”.
(5) It’s become unliveable.” Additional reporting: Manu Abdo and Abdel Fatah Mohamed
(6) The real threat posed by robots isn’t that they will become evil and kill us all, which is what keeps Elon Musk up at night – it’s that they will amplify economic disparities to such an extreme that life will become, quite literally, unlivable for the vast majority.
(7) Climate change is real, it is accelerating, we are on a trajectory for four degrees of warming which is an unlivable planet and we won’t stand for it.
(8) So the real trick, the only hope, really, is to allow the terror of an unlivable future to be balanced and soothed by the prospect of building something much better than many of us have previously dared hope.
(9) Such characteristic phenomena were found which are unusual if one compares them to the viscotic hysteresis of the unliving material.
(10) They have failed us by trying to preserve pristine pockets of the world while refusing to take on the powerful interests that are making the entire world unliveable for everyone."
(11) But the council leaves them to rot and deteriorate through weather damage, so they are in a bad enough way for the council to say they are in an unliveable condition.
(12) If climate change renders small island states unliveable, the international community will sooner or later have to learn to accept and support environmental refugees.
(13) This article shows that case history cannot exclude that widely overlooked element of the past called "unlived life", which causes undoubted effects on the present state and on judgement of the future.
(14) In a letter to Alison McGovern, the Labour MP for Wirral South, Magenta says one such block of flats will be "emptied with a view to subsequent demolition" because of the inability to let them out, sell them or keep up with the costs of keeping them unlived in.
(15) The room still feels a bit unlived-in, like a university bedsit at the start of term, but Leslie is keen to show that he is cracking on with the homework Labour needs to do to win back the public’s confidence.
(16) Parallels to the communication theory of D. Wyss, and the possibility to get down to the "unlived life" of a patient by using the TAT and the "Würzburg questionnaire" are shown.
(17) Comparatively little research has been done into the possible impacts of climate change in Africa and there are deep uncertainties about timing and severity in individual countries, but the scientific consensus – from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – is that a rise in temperatures of just 2C would guarantee more intense droughts, heatwaves, floods, stronger storms, sea level rises, crop losses and unliveable cities, and a rise of 4-5C would be calamitous across much of the continent.
(18) They queue for burgers, eat at concept diners and Instagram the results – perhaps it makes an unliveable settlement bearable for a while.
(19) The real threat ... is that they will amplify economic disparities to such an extreme that life will become unlivable So far, however, this phenomenon hasn’t produced extreme unemployment.
(20) Man separates each moment "unlived life" from lived historical reality by renouncing, rejecting, missing and letting slip.