'LIFE' definitions:
Definition of 'life'
From: WordNet
noun
A characteristic state or mode of living; "social life"; "city life"; "real life"
noun
The experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life" [syn: life, living]
noun
The course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living; "he hoped for a new life in Australia"; "he wanted to live his own life without interference from others"
noun
The condition of living or the state of being alive; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes" [syn: animation, life, living, aliveness]
noun
The period during which something is functional (as between birth and death); "the battery had a short life"; "he lived a long and happy life" [syn: life, lifetime, life-time, lifespan]
noun
The period between birth and the present time; "I have known him all his life"
noun
The period from the present until death; "he appointed himself emperor for life"
noun
A living person; "his heroism saved a life"
noun
Animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it" [syn: liveliness, life, spirit, sprightliness]
noun
Living things collectively; "the oceans are teeming with life"
noun
The organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones; "there is no life on the moon"
noun
An account of the series of events making up a person's life [syn: biography, life, life story, life history]
noun
A motive for living; "pottery was his life"
noun
A prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives; "he got life for killing the guard" [syn: life sentence, life]
Definition of 'Life'
From: GCIDE
- Life \Life\ (l[imac]f), n.; pl. Lives (l[imac]vz). [AS. l[imac]f; akin to D. lijf body, G. leib body, MHG. l[imac]p life, body, OHG. l[imac]b life, Icel. l[imac]f, life, body, Sw. lif, Dan. liv, and E. live, v. [root]119. See Live, and cf. Alive.]
- 1. The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that state of an animal or plant in which all or any of its organs are capable of performing all or any of their functions; -- used of all animal and vegetable organisms. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Of human beings: The union of the soul and body; also, the duration of their union; sometimes, the deathless quality or existence of the soul; as, man is a creature having an immortal life. [1913 Webster]
- She shows a body rather than a life. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Philos.) The potential principle, or force, by which the organs of animals and plants are started and continued in the performance of their several and cooperative functions; the vital force, whether regarded as physical or spiritual. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Figuratively: The potential or animating principle, also, the period of duration, of anything that is conceived of as resembling a natural organism in structure or functions; as, the life of a state, a machine, or a book; authority is the life of government. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A certain way or manner of living with respect to conditions, circumstances, character, conduct, occupation, etc.; hence, human affairs; also, lives, considered collectively, as a distinct class or type; as, low life; a good or evil life; the life of Indians, or of miners. [1913 Webster]
- That which before us lies in daily life. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- By experience of life abroad in the world. --Ascham. [1913 Webster]
- Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
- 'T is from high life high characters are drawn. --Pope [1913 Webster]
- 6. Animation; spirit; vivacity; vigor; energy. [1913 Webster]
- No notion of life and fire in fancy and in words. --Felton. [1913 Webster]
- That gives thy gestures grace and life. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
- 7. That which imparts or excites spirit or vigor; that upon which enjoyment or success depends; as, he was the life of the company, or of the enterprise. [1913 Webster]
- 8. The living or actual form, person, thing, or state; as, a picture or a description from, the life. [1913 Webster]
- 9. A person; a living being, usually a human being; as, many lives were sacrificed. [1913 Webster]
- 10. The system of animal nature; animals in general, or considered collectively. [1913 Webster]
- Full nature swarms with life. --Thomson. [1913 Webster]
- 11. An essential constituent of life, esp: the blood. [1913 Webster]
- The words that I speak unto you . . . they are life. --John vi. 63. [1913 Webster]
- The warm life came issuing through the wound. --Pope [1913 Webster]
- 12. A history of the acts and events of a life; a biography; as, Johnson wrote the life of Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 13. Enjoyment in the right use of the powers; especially, a spiritual existence; happiness in the favor of God; heavenly felicity. [1913 Webster]
- 14. Something dear to one as one's existence; a darling; -- used as a term of endearment. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Life forms the first part of many compounds, for the most part of obvious meaning; as, life-giving, life-sustaining, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Life annuity, an annuity payable during one's life.
- Life arrow, Life rocket, Life shot, an arrow, rocket, or shot, for carrying an attached line to a vessel in distress in order to save life.
- Life assurance. See Life insurance, below.
- Life buoy. See Buoy.
- Life car, a water-tight boat or box, traveling on a line from a wrecked vessel to the shore. In it person are hauled through the waves and surf.
- Life drop, a drop of vital blood. --Byron.
- Life estate (Law), an estate which is held during the term of some certain person's life, but does not pass by inheritance.
- Life everlasting (Bot.), a plant with white or yellow persistent scales about the heads of the flowers, as Antennaria, and Gnaphalium; cudweed.
- Life of an execution (Law), the period when an execution is in force, or before it expires.
- Life guard. (Mil.) See under Guard.
- Life insurance, the act or system of insuring against death; a contract by which the insurer undertakes, in consideration of the payment of a premium (usually at stated periods), to pay a stipulated sum in the event of the death of the insured or of a third person in whose life the insured has an interest.
- Life interest, an estate or interest which lasts during one's life, or the life of another person, but does not pass by inheritance.
- Life land (Law), land held by lease for the term of a life or lives.
- Life line. (a) (Naut.) A line along any part of a vessel for the security of sailors. (b) A line attached to a life boat, or to any life saving apparatus, to be grasped by a person in the water.
- Life rate, rate of premium for insuring a life.
- Life rent, the rent of a life estate; rent or property to which one is entitled during one's life.
- Life school, a school for artists in which they model, paint, or draw from living models.
- Lifetable, a table showing the probability of life at different ages.
- To lose one's life, to die.
- To seek the life of, to seek to kill.
- To the life, so as closely to resemble the living person or the subject; as, the portrait was drawn to the life. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'LIFE'
From: Easton
- Life generally of physical life (Gen. 2:7; Luke 16:25, etc.); also used figuratively (1) for immortality (Heb. 7:16); (2) conduct or manner of life (Rom. 6:4); (3) spiritual life or salvation (John 3:16, 17, 18, 36); (4) eternal life (Matt. 19:16, 17; John 3:15); of God and Christ as the absolute source and cause of all life (John 1:4; 5:26, 39; 11:25; 12:50).
Synonyms of 'life'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- activator,
- activity,
- Adamite,
- adventures,
- affairs,
- age,
- alacrity,
- an existence,
- animal spirits,
- animation,
- animator,
- annals,
- anxiety,
- anxiousness,
- appetite,
- ardor,
- arouser,
- autobiography,
- avidity,
- avidness,
- being,
- biographical sketch,
- biography,
- body,
- bounce,
- breathless impatience,
- breeziness,
- brio,
- briskness,
- bubbliness,
- capersomeness,
- case history,
- cat,
- chap,
- character,
- cheerful readiness,
- chronicle,
- chronicles,
- chronology,
- circumstances,
- Clio,
- coltishness,
- compulsion,
- concerns,
- condition of things,
- conditions,
- confessions,
- creature,
- critter,
- curriculum vitae,
- customer,
- dash,
- dazzle,
- dealings,
- diary,
- doings,
- duck,
- duration,
- eagerness,
- earthling,
- ebullience,
- effervescence,
- elan,
- elan vital,
- elasticity,
- energizer,
- energy,
- ens,
- entelechy,
- enthusiasm,
- entity,
- esprit,
- esse,
- essence,
- existence,
- experiences,
- exuberance,
- fellow,
- fixation,
- flair,
- flavor,
- fortunes,
- forwardness,
- freshness,
- friskiness,
- frolicsomeness,
- gaiety,
- gamesomeness,
- gayness,
- generation,
- get-up-and-go,
- glow,
- goings-on,
- groundling,
- gust,
- gusto,
- guy,
- hagiography,
- hagiology,
- hand,
- head,
- heartiness,
- historiography,
- history,
- homo,
- human,
- human being,
- human dynamo,
- impatience,
- impetuosity,
- impetus,
- individual,
- joie de vivre,
- joker,
- journal,
- keen desire,
- keenness,
- legend,
- life and letters,
- life story,
- lifeblood,
- lifetime,
- liveliness,
- living,
- living soul,
- lustiness,
- man,
- march of events,
- martyrology,
- materiality,
- matters,
- memoir,
- memoirs,
- memorabilia,
- memorial,
- memorials,
- mettle,
- monad,
- mortal,
- motivating force,
- motive power,
- moving spirit,
- moxie,
- Muse of history,
- necrology,
- nose,
- obituary,
- object,
- obsession,
- occurrence,
- one,
- oomph,
- organism,
- party,
- passion,
- pep,
- peppiness,
- period of existence,
- perkiness,
- person,
- persona,
- personage,
- personality,
- pertness,
- photobiography,
- piss and vinegar,
- pizzazz,
- playfulness,
- preoccupation,
- presence,
- proceedings,
- profile,
- promptness,
- pungency,
- quickness,
- readiness,
- record,
- relations,
- resilience,
- restorative,
- resume,
- robustness,
- rollicksomeness,
- rompishness,
- run of things,
- sentience,
- single,
- skittishness,
- somebody,
- someone,
- something,
- soul,
- spark of life,
- spark plug,
- sparkle,
- spirit,
- spiritedness,
- spirits,
- sportiveness,
- sprightliness,
- spring,
- state of affairs,
- stimulant,
- stimulator,
- stimulus,
- story,
- subsistence,
- substantiality,
- survival,
- sustenance,
- tellurian,
- terran,
- the times,
- the world,
- theory of history,
- thing,
- time,
- tonic,
- unit,
- verve,
- viability,
- vigor,
- vim,
- vital spark,
- vitality,
- vivaciousness,
- vivacity,
- warmth,
- way of life,
- what happens,
- worldling,
- zest,
- zestfulness,
- zing,
- zip
Acronyms for 'LIFE'
From: V.E.R.A.
- Laboratory for International Fuzzy Engineering [research] (MITI)
- Logistics Interface For manufacturing Environment
Words containing 'LIFE'
- For my life,
- For the life of me,
- Lifeful,
- Lifely,
- To the life,
- Canonical life,
- Change of life,
- Covenant Life,
- Death in life,
- Expectation of life,
- High life,
- Life annuity,
- Life arrow,
- Life assurance,
- Life buoy,
- Life car,
- Life drop,
- Life estate,
- Life everlasting,
- Life guard,
- Life insurance,
- Life interest,
- Life land,
- Life line,
- Life of an execution,
- Life rate,
- Life rent,
- Life rocket,
- Life school,
- Life shot,
- Line of life,
- Low life,
- Still life,
- The staff of life,
- To seek the life of,
- To yield the life,
- Tree of life,
- Tripod of life,
- Turn of life,
- business life,
- come to life,
- elixir of life,
- estate for life,
- eternal life,
- facts of life,
- fantasy life,
- for dear life,
- full of life,
- half life,
- hard life,
- jaws of life,
- kiss of life,
- life after death,
- life belt,
- life class,
- life cycle,
- life eternal,
- life expectancy,
- life force,
- life form,
- life history,
- life imprisonment,
- life jacket,
- life mask,
- life of the party,
- life office,
- life peer,
- life preserver,
- life principle,
- life raft,
- life ring,
- life saver,
- life savings,
- life science,
- life scientist,
- life sentence,
- life story,
- life style,
- life support,
- life tenant,
- life vest,
- love life,
- night life,
- phantasy life,
- plant life,
- prime of life,
- professional life,
- quality of life,
- real life,
- right to life,
- shelf life,
- spark of life,
- sporting life,
- staff of life,
- standard of life,
- time of life,
- true to life,
- walk of life,
- way of life,
- Country Life Acres,
- Covenant Life, AK,
- Equal decrement of life,
- Half-life,
- Life-preserver,
- Life-preserving,
- Life-saving,
- Life-weary,
- Self-life,
- To lose one's life,
- larger-than-life,
- life-and-death,
- life-giving,
- life-of-man,
- life-or-death,
- life-size,
- life-sized,
- life-style,
- life-support,
- life-sustaining,
- life-threatening,
- life-time,
- long-life,
- ordinary life insurance,
- pro-life,
- stone life face,
- straight life insurance,
- true-to-life,
- whole life insurance,
- Country Life Acres, MO,
- To sell one's life dearly,
- life-support system,
- pro-life faction