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Live   /laɪv/  /lɪv/   Listen
verb
Live  v. t.  
1.
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.
2.
To act habitually in conformity with; to practice. "To live the Gospel."
To live down, to live so as to subdue or refute; as, to live down slander.


Live  v. i.  (past & past part. lived; pres. part. living)  
1.
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. "Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will... lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live."
2.
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. "O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions!"
3.
To make one's abiding place or home; to abide; to dwell; to reside; as, to live in a cottage by the sea. "Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years."
4.
To be or continue in existence; to exist; to remain; to be permanent; to last; said of inanimate objects, ideas, etc. "Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water."
5.
To enjoy or make the most of life; to be in a state of happiness; as, people want not just to exist, but to live. "What greater curse could envious fortune give Than just to die when I began to live?"
6.
To feed; to subsist; to be nourished or supported; with on; as, horses live on grass and grain.
7.
To have a spiritual existence; to be quickened, nourished, and actuated by divine influence or faith. "The just shall live by faith."
8.
To be maintained in life; to acquire a livelihood; to subsist; with on or by; as, to live on spoils. "Those who live by labor."
9.
To outlast danger; to float; said of a ship, boat, etc.; as, no ship could live in such a storm. "A strong mast that lived upon the sea."
To live out, to be at service; to live away from home as a servant. (U. S.)
To live with.
(a)
To dwell or to be a lodger with.
(b)
To cohabit with; to have intercourse with, as male with female.


adjective
Live  adj.  
1.
Having life; alive; living; not dead. "If one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it."
2.
Being in a state of ignition; burning; having active properties; as, a live coal; live embers. " The live ether."
3.
Full of earnestness; active; wide awake; glowing; as, a live man, or orator.
4.
Vivid; bright. " The live carnation."
5.
(Engin.) Imparting power; having motion; as, the live spindle of a lathe; live steam.
6.
(Elec.) Connected to a voltage source; as, a live wire.
7.
(Broadcasting) Being transmitted instantaneously, as events occur, in contrast to recorded.
8.
(Sport) Still in active play; of a ball being used in a game; as, a live ball.
9.
Pertaining to an entertainment event which was performed (and possibly recorded) in front of an audience; contrasted to performances recorded in a studio without an audience.
Live birth, the condition of being born in such a state that acts of life are manifested after the extrusion of the whole body.
Live box, a cell for holding living objects under microscopical examination.
Live feathers, feathers which have been plucked from the living bird, and are therefore stronger and more elastic.
Live gang. (Sawing) See under Gang.
Live grass (Bot.), a grass of the genus Eragrostis.
Live load (Engin.), a suddenly applied load; a varying load; a moving load; as a moving train of cars on a bridge, or wind pressure on a roof.
Live oak (Bot.), a species of oak (Quercus virens), growing in the Southern States, of great durability, and highly esteemed for ship timber. In California the Quercus chrysolepis and some other species are also called live oaks.
Live ring (Engin.), a circular train of rollers upon which a swing bridge, or turntable, rests, and which travels around a circular track when the bridge or table turns.
Live steam, steam direct from the boiler, used for any purpose, in distinction from exhaust steam.
Live stock, horses, cattle, and other domestic animals kept on a farm. whole body.
live wire
(a)
(Elec.) a wire connected to a power source, having a voltage potential; used esp. of a power line with a high potential relative to ground, capable of harming a person who touches it.
(b)
(Fig.) a person who is unusually active, alert, or aggressive.


noun
Live  n.  Life. (Obs.)
On live, in life; alive. (Obs.) See Alive.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Live" Quotes from Famous Books



... we are placed; but I truly, dearly love the sweet girl and earnestly desire to be given the right to protect, provide for and cherish her as my dearest earthly treasure so long as we both shall live." ...
— Grandmother Elsie • Martha Finley
... and the methods of attachment of which are singularly various and beautiful. The fungi differs from the lichens and algae in deriving their nourishment from the substances on which they grow, instead of from the media in which they live. They contain a larger quantity of nitrogen in their constitution than vegetables generally do, and the substance called 'fungine' has a near resemblance to animal matter. Their spores are inconceivably numerous and minute, and are ...
— Forty Centuries of Ink • David N. Carvalho
... egg or embryo (the future child) begins to grow, and it remains in the womb for two hundred and eighty days from the day when the male and female egg met. It is quite natural for an intelligent girl to ask her mother to explain, "How a baby can live in there for such a long time," or "What makes it grow if it does not get anything to eat ...
— The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • W. Grant Hague
... indeed," Madame Christophor repeated. "Do you not understand what I mean when I tell you that she is dying of it? Very likely she will not live a week—perhaps not a day. She lies there alone in the garden of the hospital and she is afraid. There are none who knew her, whom she cares for, to take her into their arms and to bid her have no fear. Is it not your place to do this? You have held her in your arms in life. ...
— The Mischief Maker • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... is the longest. Another boasted that he had fairly taken his shortest, and that doing so he first compassed his design. Thus, Carpalin, meeting once Epistemon looking upon a wall with his fiddle-diddle, or live urinal, in his hand, to make a little maid's water, cried that he did not wonder now how the other came to be still the first at Pantagruel's levee, since he held his shortest and ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais


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