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US
/ˈɫaɪv, ˈɫɪv/
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ADJECTIVE
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of current relevance
still a live option
a live issue -
actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing
brought to you live from Lincoln Center
a live television program
live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience -
exerting force or containing energy
a live bomb
a live bomb
a live ball is one in play
tossed a live cigarette out the window
live ore is unmined ore
live coals
got a shock from a live wire -
in current use or ready for use
live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread -
capable of erupting
the volcano is very much alive
a live volcano -
elastic; rebounds readily
a lively tennis ball
clean bouncy hair
as resilient as seasoned hickory
springy turf -
possessing life
the happiest person alive
a live canary
doctors are working hard to keep him alive
burned alive
the nerve is alive -
charged or energized with electricity
a hot wire
a live wire -
charged with an explosive
a live bomb
a live bomb
live ammunition -
abounding with life and energy
the club members are a really live bunch -
highly reverberant
a live concert hall
VERB
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have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
I lived through two divorces
The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare
have you ever known hunger?
I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict
I know the feeling! -
be an inhabitant of or reside in
deer are populating the woods
this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean
People lived in Africa millions of years ago
The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted -
pursue a positive and satisfying existence
You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live -
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 -
continue to live and avoid dying
One crash victim died, the other lived
The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents
We went without water and food for 3 days
how long can a person last without food and water?
These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America -
lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style
we had to live frugally after the war -
have life, be alive
Our great leader is no more
My grandfather lived until the end of war
ADVERB
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not recorded
the opera was broadcast live
How To Use live In A Sentence
- They need access to the right help so they can rebuild their lives. Times, Sunday Times
- The net result of all these changes is that schools should be able to deliver a better service to pupils.
- What do a few lives matter now if we can find new, unpolluted territories and new ways to survive? THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
- I'd live the transient and ephemeral existence of a backpacker for a week, an existence of freedom and simple pleasures.
- I barken back to the rogue Taken Howler, the dead unexpectedly alive and inimical. Shadow Games
- As far back as the 1920s, it was an easy getaway for Hollywood types looking for a little privacy; and this golden era lives on at select spots.
- My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
- Spinach, endive and romaine lettuce are great in salads; just dress with a little olive oil and red wine vinegar.
- He would never have gone to the Union while his wife was alive: she said it was "plebby. The Key to Rebecca
- It was then allowed to recover on the stringer in deeper water before being returned alive to grow on to even larger proportions.