live
Meanings
- To be alive; to have life.
- To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
- (of an object) to have its proper place; to normally be stored.
- To survive; to persevere; to continue.
- To endure in memory; to escape oblivion.
- To cope.
- To pass life in a specified manner.
- To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually.
- To act habitually in conformity with; to practice; to exemplify in one's way of life.
- To live as; to live being.
- To outlast danger; (of a ship or boat) to float.
- To maintain or support one's existence; to provide for oneself; to feed; to subsist.
- Having life; that is alive.
- Being in existence; actual.
- Having active properties; being energized.
- Operational; in actual use rather than in testing etc.
- Of an object or value: that may potentially be used in the future execution of a program.
- Taken from a living animal.
- Imparting power; having motion.
- Still in active play.
- Of a card: not yet dealt or played.
- Being broadcast ("on the air"), as it happens.
- In person.
- Recorded from a performance in front of an audience.
- Of an event, as it happens; in real time; direct.
- Of making a performance or speech, in person.
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Etymology
From Middle English lefe, lifen, libbe, libben, live, luvien, lyven, from Old English libban, lifian (“to live; be alive”), from Proto-West Germanic *libbjan, from Proto-Germanic *libjaną (“to live”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick”). Cognates Cognate with Yola live (“to live”), North Frisian laawe, lawe, lewe, lewi, lewwe, lääwe (“to live”), Saterland Frisian lieuwje, líeuwje (“to live”), West Frisian libje (“to live”), Alemannic German lëëbe (“to live”), Cimbrian and Mòcheno lem (“to live”), Dutch leeven, leven (“to live”), German leben (“to live”), German Low German lęven (“to live”), Limburgish leve, léëve (“to live”), Luxembourgish liewen (“to live”), Vilamovian łaowa (“to live”), Yiddish לעבן (lebn, “to live”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål leve (“to live”), Faroese liva (“to live”), Icelandic lifa (“to live”), Norwegian Nynorsk leva, leve, liva (“to live”), Swedish leva (“to live”), Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌽 (liban, “to live”); also Latin lippus (“half-sighted, myopic”), Greek λίπος (lípos, “fat, tallow”), Lithuanian lipti (“to stick”), Bulgarian лепя́ (lepjá, “to glue, paste, stick; to plaster, smear”), Czech lepit (“to glue, stick”), Macedonian лепи (lepi, “to glue, stick”), Polish lepić (“to mold; to glue, paste; to stick”), Russian лепи́ть (lepítʹ, “to fashion, sculpt, shape”), Serbo-Croatian лепити, лије́пити, lépiti, lijépiti (“to glue, paste; to stick”), Slovak lepiť (“to stick”), Slovene lepiti (“to stick”), Ukrainian ліпити (lipyty, “to mould, shape”), Sanskrit लिप् (lip, “to anoint, smear; to defile, soil, taint”), रिप् (rip, “deceit, fraud; injury; enemy, traitor”).