Live meaning

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To support oneself; subsist.

Living on rice and fish; lives on a small inheritance.

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To pursue a positive, satisfying existence; enjoy life.

Those who truly live.

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The definition of live is seeing or hearing a performance as it is happening, not prerecorded.

An example of live is going to a concert.

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To be alive; exist.
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To continue to be alive.

Lived through a bad accident.

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To go through; experience.

Lived a nightmare.

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To practice in one's life.

Live one's beliefs.

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Having life; alive.

Live animals.

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Full of life, excitement, or activity; lively.

A live crowd at the parade; a live party.

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Glowing; burning.

Live coals.

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Not yet exploded but capable of being fired.

Live ammunition.

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Carrying an electric current or energized with electricity.

Live cables lying dangerously on the ground.

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Not mined or quarried; in the natural state.

Live ore.

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Of, relating to, or containing living bacteria or active viruses, sometimes in an attenuated form.

Live yogurt cultures; a live measles vaccine.

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Not yet set into type.

Live copy.

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In play.

A live ball.

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At, during, or from the time of actual occurrence or performance.

The landing on the moon was telecast live.

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To be alive; have life.
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To enjoy a full and varied life.

He really knows how to live.

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To feed; subsist; depend on or have as one's usual food.

To live on fruits and nuts.

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To make one's dwelling; reside.
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To remain in human memory.

Men's good deeds live after them.

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To practice or carry out in one's life.

To live one's faith.

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To spend; pass.

To live a useful life.

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To act (a role in a play) very convincingly or feelingly.
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Having life; not dead.
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Of the living state or living beings.
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Having positive qualities, as of warmth, vigor, vitality, brightness, brilliance, etc.

A live organization, a live color.

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Of immediate or present interest.

A live issue.

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Not yet burned.
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Charged for explosion; unexploded.

A live shell.

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Carrying an electric current.

A live wire.

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In the native state; not quarried or mined.

Live rocks.

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Having resilience or elasticity.

A live rubber ball.

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Fresh; pure.
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Imparting motion or power.
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Set up ready to be printed.
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In play.

A live ball.

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In, from, or at an actual or public performance.

Recorded live at a nightclub.

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Having life; alive.
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Relating to or containing living bacteria or active viruses, sometimes in an attenuated form.
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(1) An event that is broadcast or recorded as it happens. See real time.
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(intransitive) To be alive; to have life.

He's not expected to live for more than a few months.

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(intransitive) To have permanent residence somewhere.

I live at 2a Acacia Avenue.

He lives in LA, but he's staying here over the summer.

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(intransitive) To survive; to persevere; to continue.

Her memory lives in that song.

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(intransitive, hyperbolic) To cope.

You'll just have to live with it!

I can't live in a world without you.

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To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually.

To live an idle or a useful life.

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To act habitually in conformity with; to practice.
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To outlast danger; to float; said of a ship, boat, etc.

No ship could live in such a storm.

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(only used attributively) Having life; that is alive.

The post office will not ship live animals.

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Being in existence; actual.

He is a live example of the consequences of excessive drinking.

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Having active properties; being energized.
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Operational; being in actual use rather than in testing.
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(engineering) Imparting power; having motion.

The live spindle of a lathe.

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(sports) Still in active play.

A live ball.

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(broadcasting) Seen or heard from a broadcast, as it happens.

The station presented a live news program every evening.

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Of a performance or speech, in person.

This nightclub has a live band on weekends.

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Of a recorded performance, made in front of an audience, or not having been edited after recording.
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Of firearms or explosives, capable of causing harm.

The air force practices dropping live bombs on the uninhabited island.

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(circuitry) Electrically charged or energized, usually indicating that the item may cause electrocution if touched.

Use caution when working near live wires.

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(poker) Being a bet which can be raised by the bettor, usually in reference to a blind or straddle.

Tommy's blind was live, so he was given the option to raise.

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Featuring humans; not animated, in the phrases “live actors" or “live action".
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Being in a state of ignition; burning.

A live coal; live embers.

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Of an event, as it happens; in real time; direct.

The concert was broadcast live by radio.

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Of making a performance or speech, in person.

He'll be appearing live at the auditorium.

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Live is defined as to have life, continue to be alive, to reside somewhere or to behave throughout one's life in a particular way.

An example of live is a person who's heart is beating and brain is functioning.

An example of live is a deer that was hit by a car, but is still walking and breathing.

An example of live is where a person sleeps and calls home.

An example of live is a person who spends their life being cautious.

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To reside; dwell.

Lives on a farm.

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To conduct one's life in a particular manner.

Lived frugally.

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To remain in human memory.

An event that lives on in our minds.

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To spend or pass (one's life).
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Of, related to, or occurring during the life of one that is living.

A live birth; the live weight of an animal before being slaughtered.

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Of current interest or relevance.

A live topic; still a live option.

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live it up
  • To engage in festive pleasures or extravagances.
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live off
  • To enjoy the best of everything; live in comfort or luxury.
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live up to
  • To live or act in accordance with:.
    Lived up to their parents' ideals.
  • To prove equal to:.
    A new technology that did not live up to our expectations.
  • To carry out; fulfill:.
    Lived up to her end of the bargain.
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live and let live
  • To do as one wishes and let other people do the same; be tolerant.
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live something down
  • To succeed in making others forget the memory or shame of (one's fault, misdeed, etc.).
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live high
  • To live in luxury.
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live in
  • To live at the place where one is in domestic service.
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live it up
  • To have a joyous or merry time.
  • To indulge in pleasures, extravagances, etc. that one usually forgoes.
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live out
  • To live until the end of; last through.
  • To sleep away from the place where one is in domestic service.
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live together
  • To dwell with each other; specif., to cohabit.
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live up to
  • To live or act in accordance with (certain ideals, promises, expectations, etc.).
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live well
  • To live in luxury.
  • To lead a virtuous life.
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live with
  • To dwell with; be a lodger at the home of.
  • To cohabit with.
  • To tolerate; bear; endure.
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where one lives
  • In a sensitive or vulnerable area.
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Idioms and Phrasal Verbs

live up to
live something down
live high
live out
live together
live up to
live well
where one lives

Origin of live

  • Middle English liven from Old English libban, lifian leip- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Short for alive
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Middle English liven, from Old English libban, lifian (“to live"), from Proto-Germanic *libjanÄ…, from Proto-Indo-European *leip- (“leave, cling, linger"). Cognate with West Frisian libje, Old Saxon libbian (German Low German lÄ™ven (“to live")), Dutch leven, Old High German lebÄ“n (German leben), Old Norse lifa (Swedish leva), Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌽 (liban).
    From Wiktionary
  • See alive
    From Wiktionary

Live Sentence Examples

  • I live with my mother and daughter.

  • You're trying to live like your parents, Carmen.

  • Where everyone can live up to his or her maximum potential.

  • Whatever occurs, we'll live with it.

  • Sure, there were other places to live, but nothing would be like the valley where she had spent her childhood.

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