live : Idioms & Phrases

• noun highly variable often shrubby evergreen oak of coastal zone of western North America having small thick usually spiny-toothed dark-green leaves
  Quercus agrifolia; California live oak.
  

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• noun medium-sized evergreen of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico with oblong leathery often spiny-edged leaves
  canyon oak; iron oak; maul oak; Quercus chrysolepis.
  

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• a benefice in an established church.

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• adjective satellite morally pure
  clean.
  
  • led a clean life

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• noun highly variable often shrubby evergreen oak of coastal zone of western North America having small thick usually spiny-toothed dark-green leaves
  Quercus agrifolia; California live oak.
  

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• noun average cost of basic necessities of life (as food and shelter and clothing)
  
  • a rise in the cost of living reflects the rate of inflation

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• noun an allowance for changes in the consumer price index
  

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• noun a benefit that goes to anyone whose money receipts increase automatically as prices rise
  

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• noun an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer
  CPI; consumer price index.
  

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• noun a lifestyle given to easy indulgence of the appetites
  

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• adjective satellite not parasitic on another organism
  nonsymbiotic; nonparasitic.
  

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Free"-liv`ing noun

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1. Unrestrained indulgence of the appetites.

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• a feeding upon rich, pampering food.

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Ill"-lived` adjective

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1. Leading a wicked life. Obs.

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• noun a small shrubby evergreen tree of western North America similar to the coast live oak but occurring chiefly in foothills of mountain ranges removed from the coast; an important part of the chaparral
  Quercus wislizenii; Quercus wizlizenii.
  

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• noun the axle of a self-propelled vehicle that provides the driving power
  driving axle.
  

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• noun the birth of a living fetus (regardless of the length of gestation)
  

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• the condition of being born in such a state that acts of life are manifested after the extrusion of the whole body. Dunglison.

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• noun the body of a living animal or person
  

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• a cell for holding living objects under microscopical examination. P. H. Gosse.

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• verb live so as to annul some previous behavior
  unlive.
  
  • You can never live this down!

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• feathers which have been plucked from the living bird, and are therefore stronger and more elastic.

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• . (Sawing) See under Gang.

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• (Bot.), a grass of the genus Eragrostis.

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• verb live in the house where one works
  sleep in.
  
  • our babysitter lives in, as it is too far to commute for her

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• verb enjoy oneself
  
  • it's your birthday, so let's live it up!

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• noun a variable load on a structure (e.g. a bridge) such as moving traffic
  superload.
  

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• (Engin.), a suddenly applied load; a varying load; a moving load; as a moving train of cars on a bridge, or wind pressure on a roof.

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• noun any of several American evergreen oaks
  

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• (Bot.), a species of oak (Quercus virens), growing in the Southern States, of great durability, and highly esteemed for ship timber. In California the Q. chrysolepis and some other species are also called live oaks.

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• verb continue to live through hardship or adversity
  last; hold up; live; endure; hold out; go; survive.
  
  • We went without water and food for 3 days
  • These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America
  • The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents
  • how long can a person last without food and water?

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• verb live out one's life; live to the end
  
• verb work in a house where one does not live; he can easily commute from his home"
  sleep out.
  
  • our cook lives out

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• verb experience again, often in the imagination
  relive.
  
  • He relived the horrors of war

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• (Engin.), a circular train of rollers upon which a swing bridge, or turntable, rests, and which travels around a circular track when the bridge or table turns.

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• noun steam coming from a boiler at full pressure
  

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• steam direct from the boiler, used for any purpose, in distinction from exhaust steam.

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• horses, cattle, and other domestic animals kept on a farm. whole body.

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• verb share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple
  shack up; cohabit.
  

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• verb meet the requirements or expectations of
  satisfy; fulfill; fulfil.
  

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• noun an alert and energetic person
  sharpy; eager beaver; sharpie; busy bee.
  

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• verb tolerate or accommodate oneself to
  swallow; accept.
  
  • I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions
  • I swallowed the insult
  • She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies

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• noun prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft grey-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled
  touch-me-not; sensitive plant; action plant; Mimosa pudica; humble plant; shame plant.
  

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• noun small usually brightly-colored viviparous surface-feeding fishes of fresh or brackish warm waters; often used in mosquito control
  poeciliid fish; topminnow; poeciliid.
  

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• adjective producing living young (not eggs)
  viviparous.
  

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• noun perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers
  orpin; Sedum telephium; livelong; orpine.
  

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Live"-for*ev`er noun

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1. (Bot.) A plant (Sedum Telephium) with fleshy leaves, which has extreme powers of resisting drought; garden ox-pine.

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• noun structures collectively in which people are housed
  housing; lodging.
  

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• noun an arrangement to allow people (or ideas) to coexist
  

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• noun a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force
  zombie; zombi.
  

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• noun a state of constant misery
  

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• noun highly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with grey-green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite; South Africa
  stone mimicry plant; living granite.
  

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• noun housing available for people to live in
  quarters.
  
  • he found quarters for his family
  • I visited his bachelor quarters

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• noun usually unbranched usually spineless cactus covered with warty tubercles and having magenta flowers and white or green fruit; resembles the related mescal; northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States
  Ariocarpus fissuratus.
  
• noun highly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with grey-green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite; South Africa
  stone mimicry plant; living granite.
  

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• noun a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax
  living room; parlour; parlor; front room; sitting room.
  

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• noun space sought for occupation by a nation whose population is expanding
  lebensraum.
  

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• noun any plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones
  stone-face; stoneface; lithops; stone plant; flowering stone; stone life face.
  

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• noun the substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus)
  protoplasm.
  

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• noun a living (or once living) entity
  animate thing.
  

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• noun a trust created and operating during the grantor's lifetime
  inter vivos trust.
  

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• noun a wage sufficient for a worker and family to subsist comfortably
  

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• noun a document written by someone still legally capable requesting that he should be allowed to die if subsequently severely disabled or suffering terminal illness
  
  • after he discovered he had AIDS he drew up a living will

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• noun a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax
  living room; parlour; parlor; front room; sitting room.
  

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• adjective satellite existing for a long time
  durable; long-lasting; lasting.
  
  • hopes for a durable peace
  • a long-lasting friendship

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Long"-lived` adjective

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1. Having a long life; having constitutional peculiarities which make long life probable; lasting long; as, a long-lived tree; they are a longlived family; long-lived prejudices.

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Low"-lived` adjective

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1. Characteristic of, or like, one bred in a low and vulgar condition of life; mean dishonorable; contemptible; as, low-lived dishonesty.

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• adjective not endowed with life
  nonliving; inanimate.
  
  • the inorganic world is inanimate
  • inanimate objects

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• in life; alive. Obs. See Alive.

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• noun a collection of biographies of famous pairs of Greeks and Romans written by Plutarch; used by Shakespeare in writing some of his plays
  

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• adjective satellite lasting a very short time
  ephemeral; transitory; transient; fugacious; passing.
  
  • the ephemeral joys of childhood
  • a passing fancy
  • youth's transient beauty
  • love is transitory but it is eternal
  • fugacious blossoms

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Short"-lived` adjective

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1. Not living or lasting long; being of short continuance; as, a short-lived race of beings; short-lived pleasure; short-lived passion.

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• noun medium-sized evergreen native to eastern North America to the east coast of Mexico; often cultivated as shade tree for it wide-spreading crown; extremely hard tough durable wood once used in shipbuilding
  Quercus virginiana.
  

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• noun a level of material comfort in terms of goods and services available to someone or some group
  standard of life.
  
  • they enjoyed the highest standard of living in the country
  • the lower the standard of living the easier it is to introduce an autocratic production system

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• those who are alive, or one who is alive.

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• to live on the best at another's expense. Colloq.

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• to live so as to subdue or refute; as, to live down slander.

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• to obtain food and other necessaries as want compels, without previous provision.

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• to consume one's capital without producing or accumulating anything to replace it.

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• to be at service; to live away from home as a servant. U. S.

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• . (a) To dwell or to be a lodger with . (b) To cohabit with; to have intercourse with, as male with female.

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• adjective inhabiting or frequenting trees
  arboreal; arboreous.
  
  • arboreal apes

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• noun an oral vaccine (containing live but weakened poliovirus) that is given to provide immunity to poliomyelitis
  oral poliovirus vaccine; TOPV; OPV; Sabin vaccine.
  

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• in easy circumstances; well off; well to do. Shak.

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