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[ US /ˈɫaɪv, ˈɫɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of current relevance
    still a live option
    a live issue
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. in current use or ready for use
    live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread
  5. capable of erupting
    the volcano is very much alive
    a live volcano
  6. elastic; rebounds readily
    a lively tennis ball
    clean bouncy hair
    as resilient as seasoned hickory
    springy turf
  7. possessing life
    the happiest person alive
    a live canary
    doctors are working hard to keep him alive
    burned alive
    the nerve is alive
  8. charged or energized with electricity
    a hot wire
    a live wire
  9. charged with an explosive
    a live bomb
    a live bomb
    live ammunition
  10. abounding with life and energy
    the club members are a really live bunch
  11. highly reverberant
    a live concert hall
VERB
  1. 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!
  2. 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
  3. pursue a positive and satisfying existence
    You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live
  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. 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
  6. lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style
    we had to live frugally after the war
  7. have life, be alive
    Our great leader is no more
    My grandfather lived until the end of war
ADVERB
  1. 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
  • Once upon a time there was an old sow of impeccable reputation who lived a quiet life inside a busy farmyard. Times, Sunday Times
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