meaning of live
1. To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation for a continuance of existence; as, animals and plants that live to a great age are long in reaching maturity.
2. To pass ones time; to pass life or time in a certain manner, as to habits, conduct, or circumstances; as, to live in ease or affluence; to live happily or usefully.
3. To make ones abiding place or home; to abide; to dwell; to reside.
4. To be or continue in existence; to exist; to remain; to be permanent; to last; -- said of inanimate objects, ideas, etc.
5. To enjoy or make the most of life; to be in a state of happiness.
6. To feed; to subsist; to be nourished or supported; -- with on; as, horses live on grass and grain.
7. To have a spiritual existence; to be quickened, nourished, and actuated by divine influence or faith.
8. To be maintained in life; to acquire a livelihood; to subsist; -- with on or by; as, to live on spoils.
9. To outlast danger; to float; -- said of a ship, boat, etc. ; as, no ship could live in such a storm.
10. To spend, as ones life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually; as, to live an idle or a useful life.
11. To act habitually in conformity with; to practice.
12. Having life; alive; living; not dead.
13. Being in a state of ignition; burning; having active properties; as, a live coal; live embers.
14. Full of earnestness; active; wide awake; glowing; as, a live man, or orator.
15. Vivid; bright.
16. Imparting power; having motion; as, the live spindle of a lathe.
17. Life.
18. 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
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