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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.





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"Live" Quotes from Famous Books



... you you'd need help, Barkley," he said. "They've got ways of their own. You can't come in here and take that whole town without reckoning with the people that live there. Now suppose we get Anderson to himself and talk things over with him a little? We may not have another chance ...
— Heart's Desire • Emerson Hough
... upon Mr. B——, of a consumptive family, and himself in the last stage of a phthisis; after he was so ill as to be confined to his chamber, his breathing became so extremely difficult and distressing, that he wished rather to die than to live, and urged me warmly to devise some mode to relieve him. Suspecting serous effusion to be the cause of this symptom, and he being a man of sense and resolution, I fully explained my ideas to him, and told ...
— An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses - With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases • William Withering
... refused license through his chaplains, and could not be ignored as Milton had ignored the little Presbyterian Popes; Geneva in his person must repair to Lambeth. Chaplain Tomkyns, who took cognisance of "Paradise Lost," was fortunately a broad-minded man, disposed to live and let live, though scrupling somewhat when he found "perplexity" and "fear of change" imputed to "monarchs." His objections were overcome, and on August 20, 1667—three weeks after the death of Cowley, and eight days after Pepys ...
— Life of John Milton • Richard Garnett
... heart—the sacred domestic affection that must not here be named—the eloquence which, like the song of Orpheus, will fade from living memory into a doubtful tale—the surrender of ambition, the consecration of a life hidden with God in sympathy with man—these, all these, will live among your immortal traditions, heroic even in ...
— The Evolution of Expression Vol. I • Charles Wesley Emerson
... attachment or pretence of feeling were necessary. She had indeed no theories in her mind about being a good wife; but she would not be a bad one. She would keep her part of the compact; there should be nothing to complain of, nothing to object to. She would do her best to amuse the man she had to live with and make his life agreeable to him, which is a thing not always taken into consideration in marriage-contracts much more ideal in character. He should not be allowed to be dull, that was one thing certain. Regarding the matter in this reasonable ...
— Sir Tom • Mrs. Oliphant


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