(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.
Won
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Win
() imp. & p. p. of Win.
(v. i.) To dwell or abide.
(n.) Dwelling; wone.
Example Sentences:
(1) City badly missed Yaya Touré, on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations, and have not won a league match since last April when he has been missing.
(2) "We have a good reputation, so this won't affect us at all.
(3) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
(4) They had learned through hard experience what Frederick Douglass once taught -- that freedom is not given, it must be won, through struggle and discipline, persistence and faith.
(5) The impact of ending 500 years of shipbuilding in Portsmouth won't be seen in the data for a while.
(6) Another Guardian podcast, Days in the Life, won silver in the same category.
(7) Hollywood legend has it that, at the first Academy awards in 1929, Rin Tin Tin the dog won most votes for best actor.
(8) Our campaign has been going for some time and each step in our progress has been hard won, by campaigners paid and volunteer alike.
(9) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
(10) We repeat our call for them to do so at the earliest opportunity, and to share those findings so that we can take any appropriate actions.” In the BBC programme the 29-year-old Rupp, who won 10,000m silver at the London 2012 Olympics behind Farah, was accused of having taken testosterone and being a regular user of the asthma drug prednisone, which is banned in competition.
(11) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
(12) It just means there won't be any money when another child is in need.
(13) When the election comes, we won’t be campaigning for a coalition... ...we will be fighting heart and soul for a majority Conservative Government – because that is what our country needs.
(14) "We won't cancel any of our agreements," a senior Israeli diplomatic official told reporters.
(15) The dispute is rooted in the recent erosion of many of the freedoms Egyptians won when they rose up against Mubarak in a stunning, 18-day uprising.
(16) Nwakali, an attacking midfielder, was the player of the Under-17 World Cup in Chile last year, which Nigeria won, and at which his team-mate Chukwueze, a winger, also impressed.
(17) If you’ve escaped the impact of cuts so far , consider yourself lucky, but don’t think that you won’t be affected after the next tranche hits.
(18) He won the Labour candidacy for the Scottish seat of Kilmarnock and Loudon in 1997, within weeks of polling day, after the sitting Labour MP, Willie McKelvey, decided to stand down when he suffered a stroke.
(19) It won't be worth putting away his travel bags after returning from Perth as the G20 summit in Cannes, France, beckons.
(20) As cryptographer Matthew Green told the New York Times, 'If we could get $500,000 kicked back to OpenSSL and teams like it, maybe this kind of thing won't happen again."