Crossword clues for lives
lives
- Video game units
- Video game stock
- They may be private or parallel
- The "L" of B.L.M
- Subjects for biopics
- Subjects for biographers
- Plutarch's opus
- Plutarch's "Parallel ___."
- Mythical animal kingdom ennead
- Isn't extinct
- Is still going
- Hasn't gone extinct
- Gaming allotment
- Feline nine
- Elvis (anag) — is not dead
- Draws breath
- Daughtry "All These ___"
- Cat's surplus
- Cat's ennead
- Bio subjects
- Arcade game allotment
- Alive Modest Mouse song?
- Ain't dead yet
- A proverbial cat has nine
- "Private ___"
- "Days of Our ___"
- Subsists (on)
- Feline ennead
- Video game allotment
- Biographies
- A cat is said to have nine of them
- Gertrude Stein's "Three ___"
- Stein's "Three ___"
- Plutarch's concerns
- Plutarch title word
- G. Stein's "Three ___"
- Survives uprising in Lebanese village
- Stories about first of vindictive biographies
- Cat's nine, it's said
- Cats have nine of them
- Feline's nine
- What seatbelts save
- Makes every moment count
- Enjoys one's existence
- What green mushrooms gave in Super Mario Bros
- What bios cover
- What bios chronicle
- What biographies chronicle
- What a cat is said to have nine of
- Walks the earth
- Video-game acquisitions
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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.
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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.
She shows a body rather than a life.
--Shak. (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 co["o]perative functions; the vital force, whether regarded as physical or spiritual.
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.
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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.
That which before us lies in daily life.
--Milton.By experience of life abroad in the world.
--Ascham.Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime.
--Longfellow.'T is from high life high characters are drawn.
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Animation; spirit; vivacity; vigor; energy.
No notion of life and fire in fancy and in words.
--Felton.That gives thy gestures grace and life.
--Wordsworth. 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.
The living or actual form, person, thing, or state; as, a picture or a description from, the life.
A person; a living being, usually a human being; as, many lives were sacrificed.
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The system of animal nature; animals in general, or considered collectively.
Full nature swarms with life.
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An essential constituent of life, esp: the blood.
The words that I speak unto you . . . they are life.
--John vi. 63.The warm life came issuing through the wound.
--Pope A history of the acts and events of a life; a biography; as, Johnson wrote the life of Milton.
Enjoyment in the right use of the powers; especially, a spiritual existence; happiness in the favor of God; heavenly felicity.
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Something dear to one as one's existence; a darling; -- used as a term of endearment. Note: Life forms the first part of many compounds, for the most part of obvious meaning; as, life-giving, life-sustaining, etc. 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.
(Naut.) A line along any part of a vessel for the security of sailors.
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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.
Lives \Lives\ (l[imac]vz), n.; pl. of Life.
Lives \Lives\ (l[imac]vz), a. & adv. [Orig. a genitive sing. of
life.]
Alive; living; with life. [Obs.] `` Any lives creature.''
--Chaucer.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. (en-third-person singular of: live) Etymology 2
n. (plural of life English)
WordNet
n. a characteristic state or mode of living; "social life"; "city life"; "real life"
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"
the experience of living; the course of human events and activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life" [syn: living]
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, living, aliveness]
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: lifetime, lifespan]
the period between birth and the present time; "I have known him all his life"
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, spirit, sprightliness]
an account of the series of events making up a person's life [syn: biography, life story, life history]
the period from the present until death; "he appointed himself emperor for life"
a living person; "his heroism saved a life"
living things collectively; "the oceans are teeming with life"
a motive for living; "pottery was his life"
the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones; "there is no life on the moon"
a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives; "he got life for killing the guard" [syn: life sentence]
[also: lives (pl)]
See life
Wikipedia
Lives may refer to:
- The plural form of life
- Lives, Iran, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
- The number of lives in a video game
- Parallel Lives, aka Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, a series of biographies of famous men, written by Plutarch and thus often called Plutarch's Lives or The Lives of Plutarch
- LiVES, a video editing program and VJ tool
- "Lives", a song by Modest Mouse from the album The Moon & Antarctica
- A short form of Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, a 16th-century book by Giorgio Vasari
- 'LIVES' - Lincolnshire Integrated Voluntary Emergency Service, Prehospital care provider in Lincolnshire, UK
Usage examples of "lives".
But all of these people, both strange and native, had been drawn here by a common experience, an event which has always been of first interest in the lives of all Americans.
I believe I could give away a dozen lives if I thought it was going to save his life!
The little shack in which he lives is stuck to the very edge of the track above the steep and perilous ravine.
And then the slow toiling train has passed these lives and faces and is gone, and there is something in his heart he cannot say.
It is as if he fears the brutal revelation of his loss and loneliness, the furious, irremediable confusion of his huge unrest, his desperate and unceasing flight from the immense and timeless skies that bend above him, the huge, doorless and unmeasured vacancies of distance, on which he lives, on which, as helpless as a leaf upon a hurricane, he is driven on for ever, and on which he cannot pause, which he cannot fence, wall, conquer, make his own.
All that we know is that here the passionate enigma of our lives is so bitterly expressed, the furious hunger that so haunts and hurts Americans so desperately felt--that being rich, we all are yet so poor, that having an incalculable wealth we have no way of spending it, that feeling an illimitable power we yet have found no way of using it.
And the great trains of America would hurtle on through darkness over the lonely, everlasting earth--the earth which only was eternal--and on which our fathers and our brothers had wandered, their lives so brief, so lonely, and so strange--into whose substance at length they all would be compacted.
The trains would hurtle onward bearing other lives like these, all brought together for an instant between two points of time--and then all lost, all vanished, broken and forgotten.
For a moment it seems to him that the lost world which these words evoked has never died, lives yet in all the radiant and enchanted colour of his childhood, in all its proud, dense, and single fabric of passion, fury, certitude and joy.
There are a thousand buried, nameless and forgotten lives, ten thousand strange and secret tongues alive now, urgent, swarming in his blood, and thronging at the gateways of his memory.
He knew, indeed, that he felt instead a kind of hate--the wretched kind of hatred that comes from intolerable pity without love, from suffering and disgust, from the agony of heart and brain and nerves, the poisonous and morbid infection of our own lives, which a man dying of a loathsome disease awakes in us, and from the self- hate, the self-loathing that it makes us feel because of our terrible desire to escape him, to desert him, to blot out the horrible memory we have for him, utterly to forget him.
Oh, we know them with our life and they will ride across the land, the moon-haunted passage of our lives for ever.
He thought of those dead and wounded men upon the battlefield whose lives would touch his own so nearly, the wounded brother that he knew, the wounded stranger he had seen that day by magic chance, whom he could not forget, and whose life, whose tribe, in the huge abyss and secret purpose of dark time would one day interweave into his own.
But the lack of warmth, the absence of inner radial heat which, not being fundamental in the structure of their lives, had never been wanted, filled him with horror and impotent fury.
Americans, and all the million casual moments of their lives, with Bascom blazing at them from a dozen pulpits, Bascom, tortured by love and madness, walking the streets of the nation, stumping the rutted roads, muttering through darkness with clasped bony hands, a gaunt and twisted figure reeling across the continent below immense and cruel skies.