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LIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does live mean?
• LIVE (adjective)
The adjective LIVE has 11 senses:
1. actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing
2. exerting force or containing energy
3. possessing life
4. highly reverberant
5. charged with an explosive
6. elastic; rebounds readily
7. abounding with life and energy
8. in current use or ready for use
9. of current relevance
10. charged or energized with electricity
11. capable of erupting
Familiarity information: LIVE used as an adjective is familiar.
• LIVE (verb)
The verb LIVE has 7 senses:
1. be an inhabitant of or reside in
2. lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style
3. continue to live and avoid dying
4. support oneself
5. have life, be alive
6. have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
7. pursue a positive and satisfying existence
Familiarity information: LIVE used as a verb is common.
• LIVE (adverb)
The adverb LIVE has 1 sense:
1. not recorded
Familiarity information: LIVE used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing
Synonyms:
live; unrecorded
Context example:
live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience
Similar:
unfilmed; untaped (not recorded on film or tape)
Antonym:
recorded (set down or registered in a permanent form especially on film or tape for reproduction)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Exerting force or containing energy
Context example:
a live ball is one in play
Similar:
living ((used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried)
Also:
active ((of e.g. volcanos) erupting or liable to erupt)
Antonym:
dead (not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Possessing life
Synonyms:
alive; live
Context example:
a live canary
Similar:
liveborn ((of newborn infant) showing signs of life after birth; not stillborn)
viable (capable of life or normal growth and development)
vital (manifesting or characteristic of life)
Also:
animate (endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life)
Attribute:
animation; vitality (the property of being able to survive and grow)
aliveness; animation; life; living (the condition of living or the state of being alive)
Derivation:
liveness (the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Highly reverberant
Context example:
a live concert hall
Similar:
reverberant (having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Charged with an explosive
Context example:
a live bomb
Similar:
loaded ((of weapons) charged with ammunition)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Elastic; rebounds readily
Synonyms:
bouncy; live; lively; resilient; springy
Context example:
springy turf
Similar:
elastic (capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression; springy)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Abounding with life and energy
Context example:
the club members are a really live bunch
Similar:
lively (full of life and energy)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Sense 8
Meaning:
In current use or ready for use
Context example:
live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread
Similar:
current (occurring in or belonging to the present time)
Domain category:
printing; printing process (reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication)
Sense 9
Meaning:
Of current relevance
Context example:
still a live option
Similar:
current (occurring in or belonging to the present time)
Sense 10
Meaning:
Charged or energized with electricity
Synonyms:
hot; live
Context example:
a live wire
Similar:
charged (of a particle or body or system; having a net amount of positive or negative electric charge)
Domain category:
electricity (a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons)
Sense 11
Meaning:
Capable of erupting
Synonyms:
alive; live
Context example:
the volcano is very much alive
Similar:
active ((of e.g. volcanos) capable of erupting)
| Conjugation: |
Past simple: lived
Past participle: lived
-ing form: living
Sense 1
Meaning:
Be an inhabitant of or reside in
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
dwell; inhabit; live; populate
Context example:
deer are populating the woods
Hypernyms (to "live" is one way to...):
be (occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "live"):
tenant (occupy as a tenant)
neighbor; neighbour (live or be located as a neighbor)
lodge in; occupy; reside (live (in a certain place))
domicile; domiciliate; reside; shack (make one's home in a particular place or community)
people (furnish with people)
overpopulate (cause to have too great a population)
cohabit; live together; shack up (share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple)
lodge (be a lodger; stay temporarily)
bivouac; camp; camp out; encamp; tent (live in or as if in a tent)
nest (inhabit a nest, usually after building)
board; room (live and take one's meals at or in)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Also:
live in (live in the house where one works)
live out (work in a house where one does not live)
Derivation:
livable; liveable (fit or suitable to live in or with)
liver (someone who lives in a place)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Context example:
we had to live frugally after the war
"Live" entails doing...:
be; exist (have an existence, be extant)
Verb group:
live (pursue a positive and satisfying existence)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "live"):
board (lodge and take meals (at))
move (live one's life in a specified environment)
dissipate (live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption)
swing (live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style)
live down; unlive (live so as to annul some previous behavior)
wanton (indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life)
vegetate (lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind)
pig; pig it (live like a pig, in squalor)
bushwhack (live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla)
buccaneer (live like a buccaneer)
bach; bachelor (lead a bachelor's existence)
eke out (live from day to day, as with some hardship)
cash out (choose a simpler life style after questioning personal and career satisfaction goals)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
liver (a person who has a special life style)
living (the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Continue to live and avoid dying
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
endure; go; hold out; hold up; last; live; live on; survive
Context example:
One crash victim died, the other lived
"Live" entails doing...:
be; live (have life, be alive)
Verb group:
exist; live; subsist; survive (support oneself)
be; live (have life, be alive)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "live"):
hold up; hold water; stand up (resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.)
perennate (survive from season to season, of plants)
live out (live out one's life; live to the end)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
The business is going to live
Sense 4
Meaning:
Support oneself
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
Context example:
Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day
Verb group:
endure; go; hold out; hold up; last; live; live on; survive (continue to live and avoid dying)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "live"):
breathe (be alive)
drift; freewheel (live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s on something
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 5
Meaning:
Have life, be alive
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
be; live
Context example:
My grandfather lived until the end of war
Verb group:
endure; go; hold out; hold up; last; live; live on; survive (continue to live and avoid dying)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
living (the condition of living or the state of being alive)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
experience; know; live
Context example:
I lived through two divorces
Hypernyms (to "live" is one way to...):
experience; go through; see (undergo or live through a difficult experience)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "live"):
live over; relive (experience again, often in the imagination)
taste (experience briefly)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 7
Meaning:
Pursue a positive and satisfying existence
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Context example:
You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live
Verb group:
live (lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not recorded
Context example:
the opera was broadcast live
Context examples
Now we shall never have anything more to wish for as long as we live.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
We call this hill the Delectable Mountain, for we can look far away and see the country where we hope to live some time.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
"He might have lived to a ripe old age if he'd stayed at home," Henry agreed.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The previously unknown reptile lived in the oceans during the time of the dinosaurs.
(Sea Monster Swam Oceans 170 Million Years Ago, Voanews)
That could save money, time and lives.
(The Dog's Nose Knows Malaria, Kevin Enochs/VOA)
The scientists implanted 21 ova into surrogate mother monkeys, resulting in six pregnancies, two of which produced living animals.
(Healthy cloned monkeys born in Shanghai, Wikinews)
Scientists have found that people who drink coffee appear to live longer.
(Drink Coffee for a Longer Life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Scientists from The University of Manchester have successfully produced human kidney tissue within a living organism which is able to produce urine, a first for medical science.
(Scientists Create Functioning Kidney Tissue, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
But who the real Oz is, when he is in his own form, no living person can tell.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
“There have not been any since we have lived here,” said my mother.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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