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Definition: Live |
LiveAdjective1. Actually being performed (or--for the audience--present) at the time of viewing; "a live television program"; "brought to you live from Lincoln Center"; "live entertainment" involves performers actually in the physical presence of a "live audience". 2. Having life; "a live canary"; "hit a live nerve"; "famous living painters"; "living tissue"; "living plants and animals". 3. Showing characteristics of life; exerting force or containing energy; "live coals"; "tossd a live cigarette out the window"; "got a shock from a live wire"; "live ore is unmined ore"; "a live bomb"; "a live ball is one in play". 4. Highly reverberant; "a live concert hall". 5. Charged with an explosive; "live ammunition"; "a live bomb". 6. Rebounds readily; "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively tennis ball"; "as resiliant as seasoned hickory"; "springy turf". 7. (informal) abounding with life and energy; "the club members are a really live bunch". 8. (printing) in current use or ready for use; "live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread". 9. Of current relevance; "a live issue"; "still a live option". 10. : (electricity) charged or energized with electricity; "a hot wire"; "a live wire". 11. : capable of erupting; "a live volcano"; "the volcano is very much alive". Adverb1. Not recorded; "the opera was broadcast live". Verb1. Make one's home or live in; "There are only 250,000 people in Iceland"; "I live in a 200-year old house"; "These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted"; "The plains are sparsely populated". 2. Lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style; "we had to live frugally after the war". 3. Continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "The legend of Elvis lives on"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The racecar driver lived through several very serious accidents". 4. Support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day". 5. Have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war". 6. Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations; "I know the feeling!" "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces". 7. Pursue a positive and satisfying existence; "You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "live" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Live /li:v/ adj.,adv. [common] Opposite of `test'. Refers to actual real-world data or a program working with it. For example, the response to "I think the record deleter is finished" might be "Is it live yet?" or "Have you tried it out on live data?" This usage usually carries the connotation that live data is more fragile and must not be corrupted, or bad things will happen. So a more appropriate response might be: "Well, make sure it works perfectly before we throw live data at it." The implication here is that record deletion is something pretty significant, and a haywire record-deleter running amok live would probably cause great harm. Source: Jargon File. |
Electrical Engineering | Applying to a device or circuit to indicate that a voltage is applied. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Said of something which is still carrying electrical current. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Live He lived like a knave, and died like a fool. Said by Bishop Warburton of Henry Rich, first Earl of Holland, the turncoat. He went to the scaffold dressed in white satin, trimmed with silver. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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simple:LifeLife is a primarily biological concept with no simple definition.
- Alternate meanings: Conway's Game of Life, Hasbro's Game of Life, personal life, Life magazine, Life imprisonment
Attempts to define the concept of life
The conventional definition
An entity is usually considered to be alive if it exhibits the following phenomena at least once during its existence:
Controversially, according to this definition,
- Growth
- Metabolism, consuming, transforming and storing energy; growing by absorbing and reorganizing mass; excreting waste
- Motion, either moving itself, or having internal motion
- Reproduction, the ability to create roughly exact copies of itself
- Stimulus response, the ability to measure properties of its surrounding environment, and act on certain conditions
- fire is alive. (This could be remedied by adding the requirement of locality, where there is an obvious feature that delineates the spatial extension of the living being (such as a cell membrane).)
- a mule is not alive. (It cannot reproduce and produce a mule.)
- virii are not alive. (They cannot grow or evince behavior.)
Other definitions
Other definitions include:
- Lynn Margulis's definition of life as an autopoietic (self-producing), water based, lipid-protein bound, carbon metabolic, nucleic acid replicated, protein readout system
- "a system of inferior negative feedbacks subordinated to a superior positive feedback" (J. theor Biol. 2001)
- "functional organization for sustaining self and kind, involving active use of energy and information replication (respectively)" (Human Knowledge: Foundations and Limits, which classifies about twenty-five categories of replicating or self-sustaining phenomena)
- Tom Kinch's definition of life as a highly organized auto-cannibalizing system naturally emerging from conditions common on planetary bodies, and consisting of a population of replicators capable of mutation, around each set of which a homeostatic metabolizing organism, which actively helps reproduce and/or protect the replicator(s), has evolved
- Stuart Kauffman's definition of life as an autonomous agent or autonomous agents capable of reproducing itself or themselves, and of completing at least one thermodynamic work cycle
Descent with modification: a "useful" characteristic
A useful characteristic upon which to base a definition of life is that of descent with modification: the ability of a life form to produce offspring that are like it, but that also have the possibility of random variations. This characteristic alone is sufficient to allow evolution, assuming the variations in the offspring allow for differential survivability. The study of this form of heritability is called genetics, and in all known life forms, with the exception of prions, the genetic material is primarily DNA, or the related molecule, RNA. Another exception might be the software code of certain forms of virii and programs created through genetic programming, but whether computer programs can be alive even by this definition is still a matter of some contention.
Exceptions to the common definiton
Note that many individual organisms are incapable of reproduction and yet are still generally considered to be "alive;" see mules and ants for examples. However, these exceptions can be accounted for by applying the definition of life on the level of entire species or of individual genes. (For example, see kin selection for information about one way by which non-reproducing individuals can still enhance the spread of their genes and the survival of their species.)
Virii reproduce, flames grow, some software programs mutate and evolve, future software programs will probably evince (even high-order) behavior, machines move, and proto-life, consisting of metabolizing cells without reproduction apparatus, can have existed. Still, some would not call these entities alive. Generally, all six characteristics are required for a population to be considered alive.
The possibility of extraterrestrial life
As of 2003, Earth is the only planet in the universe known by humans to support life. The question of whether life exists elsewhere in the universe remains an open question, although the probability that Earth is the only location in the universe, or even the galaxy, that harbors life, is extremely low. There have been a number of false alarms of life elsewhere in the universe, but none of these apparent discoveries have so far survived scientific scrutiny.
Currently, the closest that scientists have come to finding extraterrestrial life is fossil evidence of possible bacterial life on Mars. There also may be simple life forms on Jupiter's moons.
Other facts
All life on Earth is based on the chemistry of carbon compounds. Some assert that this must be the case for all possible forms of life throughout the universe; others describe this position as 'carbon chauvinism'.
The most successful animal of the earth, in terms of biomass, is the Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, with a biomass of probably over 500 million tonnes.
Lifespan is the length of life in each species. Death is the termination of life in a living system, or in part thereof. Some people think that life was created by God or gods.
Related articles
- Meaning of life
- Vitalism
- Materialism
- Artificial life
- Value of life
- Afterlife
Reference
- Kauffman, Stuart. The Adjacent Possible: A Talk with Stuart Kauffman. Retrieved Nov. 30, 2003 from [http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/kauffman03/kauffman_index.html]" class="external">[1]
External link
- "The Adjacent Possible: A Talk with Stuart Kauffman"
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Life."
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Live is a colloquialism for alive, describing a living thing. In jargon, it refers to an object that is under voltage, intentionally or otherwise.
Live is also a slang term for music observed or heard in a concert performance rather than as a recording. It may also refer to radio or television programss that are broadcast in real time, rather than being recorded and broadcast some time later.
Live is also the name of a rock and roll band from York, Pennsylvania.
The band Live is comprised of Chad Taylor (guitar), Patrick Dalheimer (bass), Chad Gracey (drums) and Ed Kowalczyk (singer). The original name of the band was First Aid, formed in the early 1980s. Several name changes followed and the group settled on Public Affection and put out The Death of a Dictionary (1989).
After a series of unsuccessful attempts at cracking the music business, the group recruited Jerry Harrison (The Talking Heads) to produce Mental Jewelry, an album based on the writings of Jiddu Krishnamurti, an Indian philosopher. Live established a following and returned in with Throwing Copper which was also popular, pushed by the success of singles Selling the Drama, I Alone and Lightning Crashes. After that, the band released four albums to limited critical and popular success, Secret Samadhi, The Distance to Here, V / Ecstatic Fanatic, and most recently Birds of Pray.
Discography
- The Death of a Dictionary (as Public Affection) (1989 in music)
- Four Songs (1990 in music)
- Mental Jewelry (1991 in music)
- Throwing Copper (1994 in music)
- Secret Samadhi (1997 in music)
- The Distance to Here (1999 in music)
- V / Ecstatic Fanatic (2001 in music)
- Birds of Pray (2003 in music)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Live."
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Live is a touring live album by Zebra in 1990 in 3-years after disbanding in 1987 and 2-years before the live album was recorded live on November 25 and 26, 1989.
Tracks
- Said Before
- She's Waiting For You
- Last Time
- Wait Until the Summer's Gone
- One More Chance
- Take Your Fingers From My Hair
- Bears
- Better Not Call
- The La La Song
- Time
- Who's Behind the Door
- Making You the Fool
- Tell Me What You Want
- The Ocean
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Live (Zebra album)."
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A live axle is a type of transmission to a set of wheels in which the drive components (shafts, gears, etc) are part of the suspension and move with it. Until the 1980s it was the most common form of driving axle found in the average rear-wheel drive car.A typical live axle consists of a solid tube with a central casing containing the differential, with the wheels mounted on each end of the tube. The drive shafts run inside the tubes. The whole assembly is connected to the vehicle body or chassis by links and springs. Because the axle follows the road, with the vehicle body moving above it, drive is supplied to the axle via a swinging propellor shaft and universal joints. While relatively cheap to manufacture due to its simplicity, its weight (which is part of a vehicle's unsprung weight) can lead to handling problems.
Live axles are still widely used on trucks and heavier vehicles, but in cars they have mostly been replaced with front-wheel drive or independent rear suspension (IRS) designs.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Live axle."
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The Real (plural reais) is the monetary unit of Brazil. It was implemented in 1994, after a period of high inflation.
See also
- real number
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Real."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
LIVE | English | Lunar Impact Vehicle | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: LiveSynonyms: alive(p) (adj), bouncy (adj), hot (adj), live(a) (adj), lively (adj), living (adj), resilient (adj), springy (adj), unrecorded (adj), whippy (adj), be (v), dwell (v), endure (v), exist (v), experience (v), go (v), hold out (v), hold up (v), inhabit (v), know (v), last (v), live on (v), people (v), populate (v), reside (v), shack (v), subsist (v), survive (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: dead (adj), recorded (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Existence | Verb: exist, be; have being; Noun: subsist, live, breathe, stand, obtain, be the case; occur; (event); have place, prevail; find oneself, pass the time, vegetate. |
Heat | Fiery; incandescent, incalescent; candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking; live; on fire; dazzling. Verb: in flames, blazing, in a blaze; alight, afire, ablaze; unquenched, unextinguished; smoldering; in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat; sudorific; sweltering, sweltered; blood hot, blood warm; warm as a toast, warm as wool. |
News | In progress; live; on the spot; in person. |
Permanence | Verb: let alone, let be, let it be; persist, remain, stay, tarry, rest; stet; hold, hold on; last, endure, bide, abide, aby, dwell, maintain, keep; stand, stand still, stand fast; subsist, live, outlive, survive; hold one's ground, keep one's ground, hold one's footing, keep one's footing; hold good. |
Presence | People; inhabit, dwell, reside, stay, sojourn, live, abide, lodge, nestle, roost, perch; take up one's abode; (be located); tenant. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Live |
| English words defined with "live": interior live oak ♦ live down, live in, live it up, live oak, live on, live out, live with ♦ To live at rack and manger, To live down, To live out, trivalent live oral poliomyelitis vaccine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "live": INSPECTOR, LIVE AMMUNITION ♦ Live Free Or Die!, LIVE LUMBER, LIVE STOCK, Live weight ♦ Time to Live. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "live": vivers. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Live" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (direct, straight), German (live), Swedish (live). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's part of my job to live that image (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.) Drink from me and you will live forever (Interview With the Vampire; writing credit: Anne Rice) When will I begin to live again (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce) I've made a decision, I'm gonna live in Morocco for one year (Almost Famous; writing credit: Cameron Crowe) | |
Lyrics | We Live and we die (We Live; performing artist: Bosson) If I have to live without you. (I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love; performing artist: Chicago) I could never live without you (I Don't Want To Live Without You; performing artist: Foreigner) Oh with just one minute to live (Clockwork Creep; performing artist: 10CC) Only in Cali where we riot now rallies are live and die. (California Love; performing artist: 2 PAC) | |
Clever | I can live for a month on a day's compliments. (references; author: Mark Twain) Taped live (references; author: unknown) I intend to live forever--so far so good. (references; author: unknown) Live by what you trust, not by what you fear. (references; author: unknown) When no one is watching, live as if someone is. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | James Taylor Live (1998) Nirvana Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! (1994) Rod Steele 0014: You Only Live Until You Die (2002) Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) B.B. King: Live in Africa (1974) | |
Song Titles | I Don't Want To Live Without You (performing artist: Foreigner) Live And Learn (performing artist: Joe Public) How Am I Suppose To Live Without You (performing artist: Laura Branigan) How Do I Live (performing artist: LeAnn Rimes) Live To Tell (performing artist: Madonna) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The patient is a 53 year old woman with metastatic melanoma to multiple subcutaneous sites and retroperitoneum. She was treated with tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) transduced with the gene for tumor necrosis factor (TNF). Pretreatment biopsy shows multiple live melanoma cells with little lymphoid infiltrate. Following treatment with TNF gene modified TILs plus interleukin-2, a biopsy of another lesion showed massive coagulative necrosis of the tumor with no viable tumor seen. This is a typical picture seen in experimental animals treated with tumor necrosis factor. This patient has had a substantial objective response that is currently ongoing at nine months following initiation of treatment. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | B. cereus is a Gram-positive beta hemolytic bacteria, which may live in an environment with or without the presence of oxygen, i.e. facultative aerobe. Credit: CDC. |
 | Aquatic bacteria were grown as biofilm on steel for one week. Hartmanella vermiformis protozoans were then added, which phagocytized the bacteria, that multiplied within vesicles and became cysts in which the bacteria will live until they rupture. Credit: CDC. |  | Dramatic Hubble telescope pictures reveal that quasars live in a remarkable assortment of ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Water quality testing equipment and a "live box" for crabs. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Young naturalist inspecting a horseshoe crab shell. The carapace was empty. If this was a live animal, picking up by tail could cause injury to the crab. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Sablefish put in live tank, scooped up, tagged, and sent back overboard. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Live tanks - tagging sablefish in Chatham Strait. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Baitfish in a small net being transferred to the live well of R/V UNDAUNTED. Credit: Fisheries. |  | The M&M Live Bait Store features tackle, live bait, and refreshments. Credit: Fisheries. |
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| "Where fairys live" by Donna . Commentary: "Walking trail." | "This is where I used to live" by Velda Christensen Commentary: "Where I grew up. Isn't it pretty?." |
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| Author | Quotation |
(Frederick II) Frederick The Great | Rogues, would you live forever? |
Author Unknown | Live poor so you can die rich. |
Benjamin Spock | Live long and prosper. |
Count Leo Tolstoy | Only those live who do good. |
Dante Alighieri | Without hope we live in desire. |
Epicurus | Live like a god among men. |
Gustave Flaubert | Read in order to live. |
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus | Live with the gods. |
Philip Doddridge | Let us live while we live. |
Thomas Jefferson | I cannot live without books. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | No widow shall be compelled to marry, so long as she prefers to live without a husband; provided always that she gives security not to marry without our consent, if she holds of us, or without the consent of the lord of whom she holds, if she holds of another. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | They saw, that to live by one man's will, became the cause of all men's misery. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Society can no longer live under this bourgeoisie, in other words, its existence is no longer compatible with society. (reference) |
Abraham Lincoln | 1863 | We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. (The Gettysburg Address) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | As an immediate advance on account of the animals referred to in paragraph 2 (a) above, Germany undertakes to deliver in equal monthly installments in the three months following the coming into force of the present Treaty the following quantities of live stock: (1) To the French Government. 500 stallions (3 to 7 years); 30,000 fillies and mares (18 months to 7 years), type: Ardennais, Boulonnais or Belgian; 2,000 bulls (18 months to 3 years); 90,000 milch cows (2 to 6 years); 1,000 rams; 100,000 sheep; 10,000 goats. (2) To the Belgian Government. 200 stallions (3 to 7 years), large Belgian type; 5,000 mares (3 to 7 years), large Belgian type; 5,000 fillies (18 months to 3 years), large Belgian type; 2,000 bulls (18 months to 3 years); 50,000 milch cows (2 to 6 years); 40,000 heifers; 200 rams; 20,000 Sheep; 15,000 sows. (reference) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1901) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | But they live very comfortably |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Enough, it is my purpose to live and die unknown |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | We live in a sad society |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | They live well, I tell you. |
Time Enough for Love | Robert Heinlein | You live and learn |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | So I am, to let him live. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | We got no place to live. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | She asked whether I would be content to live at court |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | To live, the nymph must feed on blood. (references) | |
Ordinarily, they live in the bone marrow. (references) | ||
To live, adult lice need to feed on blood. (references) | ||
Business | One-third of Argentines live in Buenos Aires and its suburbs. (references) | |
Older children live with their fathers unless judicial authorities decide otherwise. (references) | ||
Ironically, these same communities live in areas of the country’s highest annual wind speeds. (references) | ||
Children | Malawi | Well over half of the country's children live in poverty, mostly in rural areas. (references) |
Uruguay | An estimated 40 percent of children under the age of 5 live in the poorest 20 percent of homes. (references) | |
Turkey | Some children continued on to high school, for which they generally must travel or live away from home. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Algeria | Parliamentary debates are televised live. (references) |
Sri Lanka | Another 340,000 displaced persons reportedly live in the Vanni. (references) | |
Israel and the occupied territories | The law does allow individuals to live in the country as permanent residents. (references) | |
Economic History | Vanuatu | The remainder live in rural areas. (references) |
Chad | About 1,000 French citizens live in Chad. (references) | |
Vanuatu | About 30,000 live in the capital, Port Vila. (references) | |
Human Rights | Peru | In women's prisons, children 3 years of age and younger live with their jailed mothers. (references) |
Lithuania | These prisoner-workers live separately from other inmates and enjoy freedom of movement on the prison grounds. (references) | |
Israel and the occupied territories | The roughly 200,000 Palestinians who live in rural villages especially have been hard hit by all aspects of the closures. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Panama | Most live in extreme poverty and isolation. (references) |
Peru | Persons of indigenous descent who live in the Andean highlands speak Aymara and Quechua, recognized as official languages. (references) | |
Canada | In 2000 the Federal and British Columbia governments concluded a treaty with the Nisga'a people who live in northwestern British Columbia. (references) | |
Minorities | Azerbaijan | Many indigenous ethnic groups live in the country. (references) |
Austria | Only 15 percent of citizens live in substandard housing. (references) | |
Azerbaijan | Armenian widows have had permits to live in Baku revoked. (references) | |
Political Economy | Kuwait | Domestic servants and unskilled workers often live and work in poor conditions. (references) |
Madagascar | Overall economic performance improved, but nearly three-fourths of the population live in poverty. (references) | |
EL SALVADOR | All fresh food, agricultural commodities, and live animals must be accompanied by a sanitary certificate. (references) | |
Political Rights | Vietnam | Legislators questioned and criticized ministers in sessions broadcast live on television. (references) |
Czech Republic | Slovaks, of whom there are an estimated 300,000, are almost all "Czechoslovaks" who elected to live in the Czech Republic after the split. (references) | |
Indonesia | In October 1999, the newly installed MPR chose Abdurrahman Wahid as President and Megawati Soekarnoputri as Vice President in a transparent process, which was broadcast live on national television. (references) | |
Trade | Poland | Veterinary permits are also required for the import of live animals. (references) |
Nepal | Live animals, fish, and most primary products are exempt from import duties. (references) | |
Jamaica | The quarantine division inspects and determines standards in the case of live animals. (references) | |
Travel | Ghana | Open 7 days, with live music on the weekend. (references) |
Hong Kong | Most people live in apartments in high-rise buildings. (references) | |
Ghana | Their Sunday brunch on the pleasant terrace overlooking the swimming pool features live jazz. (references) | |
Women | Oman | Many women live within the confines of their homes. (references) |
Bulgaria | Female-headed households frequently live below the poverty line. (references) | |
Papua New Guinea | Maternal mortality levels remain relatively high at 930 deaths per 100,000 live births. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Singapore | Most foreign construction workers live on-site in substandard conditions. (references) |
Qatar | They live in difficult conditions and train on a daily basis to become riders. (references) | |
Guinea | Children often are sent from rural areas to Conakry to live with family members while they attend school. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EPITAPH, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. Following is a touching example: Here lie the bones of Parson Platt, Wise, pious, humble and all that, Who showed us life as all should live it; Let that be said -- and God forgive it! |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dan Rather | This is CBS News continuing live coverage of the apparent terrorist attacks today here in New York City and in Washington, D.C. |
Don Rickles | Yeah, it was. I don't remember the script, because you're always at the bar drinking peach wine, you know, going, to Yugoslavia. Long live Yugoslavia. |
Elizabeth Taylor | If I fell in love again, I would love to live with someone and grow old with someone. I'm not sure a marriage certificate is really necessary. |
Halle Berry | Life. Probably when I was ten, and my father, who had left us, came back to live with us for a year. That was probably one of the worst years of my life. |
Joan Rivers | In school. I watch my diet all the time. Truly, truly, I watch my diet, but I cheat. I live on Cool Whip. I am an all inside plastic person. |
Laura Schlessinger | When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going. |
Rush Limbaugh | Employees deserve to live. |
Ted Koppel | Tonight, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker join us to tell their side of the story in their first live television interview since leaving the PTL Ministry. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep live the spirit of liberty. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Considering the extraordinary character of the times in which we live, our attention should unremittingly be fixed on the safety of our country. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Returning veterans often cannot find a satisfactory place for their families to live, and many who buy have to pay exorbitant prices. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | This hope--this supreme aspiration--must rule the way we live. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | I am proud of a program that has helped to arm and feed and clothe millions of people who live on the front lines of freedom. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our choices. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | My friends, we live in a world that is lit by lightning. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Where everyone has a roof over his head, and where the homeless get the help they need to live in dignity. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Tens of millions of Americans live from paycheck to paycheck. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Today, we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Live" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 49.68% of the time. "Live" is used about 16,744 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 49.68% | 8,318 | 1,160 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 33.81% | 5,662 | 1,736 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 15.26% | 2,555 | 3,569 |
| Adverb (general) | 1.25% | 209 | 21,011 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16,744 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "live". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Ahoah | N/A | Biblical | A live brother |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "live": a live wire ♦ as long as i live ♦ begin to live ♦ being in live ♦ California live oak ♦ canyon live oak ♦ Coast live oak ♦ fit to live ♦ i live here ♦ interior live oak ♦ live a dog's life ♦ live a life free of worries ♦ live a life of luxury ♦ live a life of pleasure ♦ live a lord ♦ live a quiet life ♦ live a single life ♦ live abroad ♦ live again ♦ live alone ♦ live ammunition ♦ live an obscure life ♦ live and let live ♦ live apart ♦ live as a vagabond ♦ live as husband and wife ♦ live as man and wife ♦ live as nomads ♦ live as parasite ♦ live at the back of beyond ♦ live axle ♦ live beyond one's income ♦ live beyond one's means ♦ live birth ♦ live body ♦ Live box ♦ live broadcast ♦ live by begging ♦ live by one's wits ♦ live cartridge ♦ live center ♦ live circuit ♦ live coal ♦ live coals ♦ live coverage ♦ live dangerously ♦ live data ♦ live down ♦ live exercise ♦ live fast ♦ Live feathers ♦ live fence ♦ live fire ♦ live fire exercise ♦ live firing ♦ live fish ♦ live for a time ♦ live for oneself ♦ live Free Or Die! ♦ live freely ♦ live from hand to mouth ♦ Live gang ♦ Live grass ♦ live high ♦ live high on the hog ♦ live in ♦ live in a big way ♦ live in a flat ♦ live in a fool's paradise ♦ live in a glass house ♦ live in a small way ♦ live in a village ♦ live in an ivory tower ♦ live in clover ♦ live in comfort ♦ live in dependence ♦ live in dependence on smb. ♦ live in digs ♦ live in extreme poverty ♦ live in hope ♦ live in isolation ♦ live in luxury ♦ live in one's mind ♦ live in one's thoughts ♦ live in opulence ♦ live in overcrowded conditions ♦ live in peace ♦ live in perfect harmony ♦ live in plenty ♦ live in poverty ♦ live in privacy ♦ live in retirement ♦ live in secluded spot ♦ live in seclusion ♦ live in sin ♦ live in state ♦ live in the clouds ♦ live in the north of rumania ♦ live in unity with ♦ live in upstate new york ♦ live issue. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "live": live-aboard, live-action, live-aid, live-and-die, live-and-let-live, live-axle, live-bait, live-bearer, live-bearing, live-born, live-coat, live-effect, live-fire, live-firing, live-forever, live-for-the-day, live-in, live-long, live-now-pay-later, live-oak, live-ring, live-saving, live-sawn, live-section, live-span, live-stock, live-stock farm, Live-storage, live-virus, live-weight, live-wire. | |
Ending with "live": live-and-let-live, non-live, real-live, re-live. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
live web cam | 4,399 | live tv | 745 |
live | 4,019 | box live x | 740 |
live music | 2,744 | oregon live | 701 |
live cam | 2,673 | day good live | 690 |
live sex | 2,620 | live help | 666 |
live erotic | 2,496 | live sex show | 657 |
one life to live | 2,385 | free live cam | 629 |
saturday night live | 2,367 | sound blaster live | 628 |
kelly live regis | 1,603 | live video | 588 |
live sex list | 1,567 | emeril live | 582 |