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The verb live means remain alive. If you hope to live until you're 100, start eating vegetables.

When live rhymes with give, it's a verb that has to do with existing — being or staying alive, or making your home in a particular place, like when you say, "I live on the planet Earth for the time being." When live rhymes with hive, it is an entirely different word with a very similar meaning, an adjective that means "not dead", or "living". So you could describe your two pet fish by saying, "The one on the left, floating upside down, is the dead fish, and the one on the right is the live fish."

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: live

1	v adj	have life, be alive possessing life
2	v	inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of
3	v	support oneself
4	adj adv	actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing not recorded
5	adj	exerting force or containing energy

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: live

v have life, be alive

“My grandfather lived until the end of war”

Synonyms:: be

: endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live on, survive
continue to live through hardship or adversity

v lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style

“we had to live frugally after the war”

Types:: show 12 types...; hide 12 types...; move
live one's life in a specified environment; dissipate
live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption; swing
live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style; live down, unlive
live so as to annul some previous behavior; wanton
indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life; vegetate
lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind; pig, pig it
live like a pig, in squalor; bushwhack
live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla; buccaneer
live like a buccaneer; bach, bachelor
lead a bachelor's existence; eke out
live from day to day, as with some hardship; cash out
choose a simpler life style after questioning personal and career satisfaction goals

v pursue a positive and satisfying existence

“You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live”

v continue to live through hardship or adversity

“The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents”

Synonyms:: endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live on, survive

: be
have life, be alive; exist, subsist, survive
support oneself

Types:: hold up, hold water, stand up
resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.; perennate
survive from season to season, of plants; live out
live out one's life; live to the end

v have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations

“I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict”

“The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare”

“I lived through two divorces”

Synonyms:: experience, know

Types:: taste
experience briefly; live over, relive
experience again, often in the imagination

Type of:: experience, go through, see
go or live through

adj possessing life

“a live canary”

Synonyms:: alive

: liveborn
(of newborn infant) showing signs of life after birth; not stillborn; viable
capable of life or normal growth and development; vital
manifesting or characteristic of life; animate
endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life

Antonyms:: dead
no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; asleep, at peace, at rest, deceased, departed, gone
dead; assassinated
murdered by surprise attack for political reasons; bloodless, exsanguine, exsanguinous
destitute of blood or apparently so; brain dead
having irreversible loss of brain function as indicated by a persistent flat electroencephalogram; breathless, inanimate, pulseless
appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse; cold
lacking the warmth of life; d.o.a.
abbreviation for `dead on arrival' at the emergency room; deathlike, deathly
having the physical appearance of death; defunct
having ceased to exist or live; doomed
marked for certain death; executed
put to death as punishment; fallen
killed in battle; late
having died recently; exanimate, lifeless
deprived of life; no longer living; murdered
killed unlawfully; nonviable
not capable of living or developing successfully; slain
killed; `slain' is formal or literary as in "slain warriors"; stillborn
(of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn; stone-dead
as lifeless as a stone; show more antonyms...

adj abounding with life and energy

“the club members are a really live bunch”

Synonyms: lively
full of life and energy

v inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of

“People lived in Africa millions of years ago”

Synonyms:: dwell, inhabit, populate

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occupy as a tenant; neighbor, neighbour
live or be located as a neighbor; lodge in, occupy, reside
live (in a certain place); domicile, domiciliate, reside, shack
make one's home in a particular place or community; people
furnish with people; overpopulate
cause to have too great a population; cohabit, live together, shack up
share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple; lodge
be a lodger; stay temporarily; bivouac, camp, camp out, encamp, tent
live in or as if in a tent; nest
inhabit a nest, usually after building; board, room
live and take one's meals at or in; move in
occupy a place; rusticate
live in the country and lead a rustic life; stay at
reside temporarily; squat
occupy (a dwelling) illegally; sleep over, stay over
stay overnight; crash
occupy, usually uninvited; miscegenate
marry or cohabit with a person of another race

Type of:: be
occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere

v support oneself

“Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?”

Synonyms:: exist, subsist, survive

: endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live on, survive
continue to live through hardship or adversity

Types:: breathe
be alive; drift, freewheel
live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely

adj actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing

“a live television program”

“brought to you live from Lincoln Center”

“live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience”

Synonyms:: unrecorded

: unfilmed, untaped
not recorded on film or tape

Antonyms:: recorded
set down or registered in a permanent form especially on film or tape for reproduction; canned, transcribed
recorded for broadcast; filmed
recorded on film; made into a movie; prerecorded
recorded at one time for transmission later; tape-recorded, taped
recorded on tape; show more antonyms...

adj of current relevance

“a live issue”

“still a live option”

Synonyms: current
occurring in or belonging to the present time

adj in current use or ready for use

“live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread”

Synonyms: current
occurring in or belonging to the present time

adv not recorded

“the opera was broadcast live”

adj exerting force or containing energy

“live coals”

“tossed a live cigarette out the window”

“got a shock from a live wire”

“live ore is unmined ore”

“a live bomb”

“a live ball is one in play”

Synonyms: active
(of e.g. volcanos) erupting or liable to erupt; in play
of a ball; living
(used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried

Antonyms:: dead
not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; extinct
(of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive; extinct, out
being out or having grown cold; lifeless
not having the capacity to support life; out of play
(of a ball) "a ball that is out of play is dead"; show more antonyms...

adj charged or energized with electricity

“a live wire”

Synonyms:: hot

: charged
of a particle or body or system; having a net amount of positive or negative electric charge

adj capable of erupting

“a live volcano”

Synonyms:: alive

: active
(of e.g. volcanos) capable of erupting

adj charged with an explosive

“live ammunition”

“a live bomb”

Synonyms: loaded
(of weapons) charged with ammunition

adj highly reverberant

“a live concert hall”

Synonyms: reverberant
having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected

adj elastic; rebounds readily

Synonyms:: bouncy, lively, resilient, springy

: elastic
capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression; springy

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