What's the difference between living and thriving?

Living


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Live
  • (n.) The state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life; existence.
  • (n.) Manner of life; as, riotous living; penurious living; earnest living.
  • (n.) Means of subsistence; sustenance; estate.
  • (n.) Power of continuing life; the act of living, or living comfortably.
  • (n.) The benefice of a clergyman; an ecclesiastical charge which a minister receives.

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.

Thriving


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thrive

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Most children became symptomatic before the age of 6 months and presenting features seen in over 70% of cases included lymphadenopathy, failure to thrive and hepatomegaly.
  • (2) Children with ventricular septal defect (VSD) often demonstrate failure to thrive (FTT).
  • (3) The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of two interventions, Calorie Management and Socioemotional Growth Fostering, on (a) the weight of children aged 1 to 3 years with nonorganic failure to thrive and (b) the interaction behaviors of 10 mother-child dyads.
  • (4) Two girls with hypokalemic and hypochloremic metabolic alkalosis and failure to thrive were found to have Bartter syndrome at ages 9 and 6 months.
  • (5) Two of our four patients had evidence of failure to thrive.
  • (6) Chronic intussusception is a rare but completely correctable cause of failure to thrive in infants and children.
  • (7) Even in their final days, they thrive on friendship and community.
  • (8) His credentials are second to none and I’m positive the club will thrive under his leadership over the coming years.
  • (9) In Gove's groves of academe, high achievers will be more clearly set apart, laurels for the winners in his regime of fact and rote, 1950s grammar schools reprised, rewarding those who already thrive under any system.
  • (10) "The Lib Dems are either cosmically ill-informed or seeking to pull the wool over the eyes of many thousands whose jobs depend on a thriving shipyard," he said.
  • (11) Rural health care can thrive if innovative tactics are used.
  • (12) "The [Inupiat] people who have thrived off the Arctic waters for thousands of years and those who treasure the Arctic's unique wildlife will continue to demand that the Obama administration not allow Shell to move forward."
  • (13) The triad of generalized seborrheic dermatitis, failure to thrive, and diarrhea in an infant should bring to mind Leiner disease or severe combined immunodeficiency disease.
  • (14) Copious fistulae output led to extensive wound breakdown, dehydration, and failure to thrive.
  • (15) After their disappointment, the Millerites grew and thrived.
  • (16) In terms of lifelong participation, if we build the momentum up to the age of 11 and then it all disappears it’s really hard to re-engage again later.” Olympic legacy failure: sporting numbers plummet amid confusion and blame Read more It is a view shared by David Ellis, the headteacher at York high school, another establishment where sport is thriving.
  • (17) Maybe Prince should visit Bloodroot , one of the first feminist restaurants to open in the US, which has been thriving for 33 years.
  • (18) But it began to decline in the second half of the 20th century as wildflower-rich grassland, which the bees needed to forage and thrive, was lost to intensively farmed land.
  • (19) A boy with Lowe syndrome who manifested renal Fanconi syndrome by severe hypophosphatemic rickets, failure to thrive, and metabolic acidosis failed to improve with conventional bolus therapy of phosphate and bicarbonate.
  • (20) Implications of the results were discussed regarding programmes dealing with failure-to-thrive children and mothers.