What is "nine lives"

n. (context idiomatic English) (context usually of a cat English) durability; near immunity to damage

Nine Lives may refer to:

• The common myth that cats have nine lives;

Nine Lives is the ninth album by Bonnie Raitt, released in 1986 (see 1986 in music). It was Raitt's most difficult release, due to the poor sales, negative reviews, and general circumstances surrounding its release.

Nine Lives is the 12th studio album by American rock band Aerosmith, released March 18, 1997. The album was produced by Aerosmith and Kevin Shirley, and was the band's first studio album released by Columbia Records since 1982's Rock in a Hard Place. It peaked at #1 on the Billboard Top 200. One of the album's singles, "Pink", won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.

Nine Lives is a 1957 Norwegian film about Jan Baalsrud, who was a member of the Norwegian resistance during World War II. In 1943, he participated in an operation to destroy a German air control tower. This mission was compromised when he and his fellow soldiers, seeking a trusted resistance contact, accidentally made contact with a civilian who betrayed them to the Nazis.

The film was directed by Arne Skouen and is based on the book We Die Alone by David Howarth.

In 1958 the film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and was entered into the Cannes Film Fesitival. In 1991 Norwegian television audiences voted it the greatest Norwegian film ever made.

"Nine Lives" is a 1968 science fiction novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin. Originally published in Playboy magazine (it was reprinted in The Wind's Twelve Quarters), the story uses human cloning to explore perceptions of self and other. When it was published, Le Guin opted for publishing it under her initials (U.K. Le Guin) rather than her name, as per Playboy suggestion that a female author would make its readers "nervous." Le Guin has said "It's not surprising that Playboy hadn't had its consciousness raised back then, but it is surprising to me to realize how thoughtlessly I went along with them. It was the first (and is the only) time I met with anything I understood as sexual prejudice, prejudice against me as a woman writer, from any editor or publisher; and it seemed so silly, so grotesque, that I failed to see that it was also important." It was first recognized on the national level when president Lyndon B. Johnson found the story in Playboy and heavily endorsed it. The presidential endorsement caused the story to spread across the country very rapidly, with an extremely positive result. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novelette in 1969.

“Nine Lives” is one of the few stories Le Guin has described as being "hard-core" science fiction, using the concept of cloning to explore the concept of the "self." Le Guin also disclosed that the inspiration for “Nine Lives” came from a chapter in Gordon Rattray Taylor's 1968 book, The Biological Time Bomb.

In November 2012, "Nine Lives" was published in a two-part collection of short stories Le Guin released called "The Unreal and the Real." Volume one was titled "Where on Earth" and highlighted "interest in realism and magic realism and includes eighteen of Le Guin’s satirical, political, and experimental earthbound stories." Volume two, where "Nine Lives" was published, was titled "Outer Space Inner Lands" and focused more on Le Guin's non-realistic stories.

Nine Lives is a 2005 American drama film written and directed by Rodrigo García. The screenplay, an example of hyperlink cinema, relates nine short, loosely intertwined tales with nine different women at their cores. Their themes include parent-child relationships, fractured love, adultery, illness, and death. Similar to García's previous work, Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, it is a series of overlapping vignettes, each one running about the same length and told in a single, unbroken take, featuring an ensemble cast.

"Nine Lives" is a song by American hard rock band Aerosmith. It was released in 1997 as the lead single and title track from the album Nine Lives. The song was written by lead singer Steven Tyler, guitarist Joe Perry, and songwriter Marti Frederiksen. The song is four minutes, one second long. All the high-caliber guitar solos are played by Brad Whitford.

The song starts with Tyler imitating a cat's wail.

Nine Lives is a 2002 horror film starring Paris Hilton. The movie was shot in England and was low budget.

Nine Lives is Steve Winwood's first full-length studio album since 2003. It was released on April 29, 2008.

The album's first single, " Dirty City" featuring guitarist Eric Clapton, held the number-one added single spot for three weeks in a row and peaked at the overall number-two spot on AAA Radio

The album debuted at number 12 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling about 26,000 copies in its first week

"Nine Lives" is a 2008 song by British heavy metal band Def Leppard from their 2008 album, Songs from the Sparkle Lounge with a duet with American Country singer Tim McGraw. It was the first single from the album, released on 27 April 2008, two days after the album release.

Nine Lives is a box set of Robert Plant's solo work, released on 21 November 2006. It includes remastered and expanded editions of nine albums with unreleased tracks and b-sides and a DVD.

The DVD has 20 music videos, live performance footage, and a career-spanning interview with Plant, as well as interviews with friends including Phil Collins, Who lead singer Roger Daltrey, singer-songwriter Tori Amos, tennis star John McEnroe, and former Atlantic Records President Ahmet Ertegün, among others.

The albums are:

• Pictures at Eleven
• The Principle of Moments
• The Honeydrippers: Volume One
• Shaken 'n' Stirred
• Now and Zen
• Manic Nirvana
• Fate of Nations
• Dreamland
• Mighty ReArranger

Nine Lives is the eighth studio album by REO Speedwagon. It peaked at number #33 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1979. The album went gold on December 5, 1979. The title Nine Lives was chosen because the album was the band's ninth, including their live album, and it also featured nine songs. It was the last REO album to prominently feature a more hard rock sound. The group would turn to more pop-oriented material with 1980's Hi Infidelity. In 2013, the album was released on CD by UK-based company Rock Candy Records, with expanded liner notes and photos.

The track "Only The Strong Survive" also later appeared on Gary Richrath's 1992 album Only the Strong Survive.

Nine Lives is the debut studio album by former Hollywood Undead frontman Deuce. The album was released on April 24, 2012 through 10th Street Entertainment. The album uses both new songs, remake versions, and demo songs recorded following Deuce's departure from Hollywood Undead in early 2010.

The album's first single, "Let's Get It Crackin'", which features Jeffree Star, was released on November 28, 2011, with an accompanying music video. The second single, entitled " America", was released on January 10, 2012, due to an early leak of the music video. The third single, "Help Me", was released on April 3, 2012, shortly before the album's release date. The fourth single, a clean version of the song "Nobody Likes Me", featuring Truth and Ronnie Radke of rock band Falling in Reverse, was released through iTunes on April 23, 2012, just before his studio album has been released the next day. His fifth single "I Came to Party" featuring Travie McCoy and Truth is released in the Party Pack single on September 4, 2012, which includes the "Rock Mix" version of the song along its two versions of music videos. Then, on February 15, 2013, the remake version of "The One", originally recorded for The Two Thousand Eight EP, his first extended play for original digital download in 2008, was released as his sixth single alongside its music video, which was directed by James Jou.

Nine Lives is the nine studio album by hard rock band Last Autumn's Dream released by Marquee Avalon in Japan on December 14, 2011 and is scheduled to be released in Europe on January 20, 2012.

Nine Lives is the fifth studio album by Finnish progressive rock band Von Hertzen Brothers. It was released on 18 March 2013.

"Flowers and Rust", the first single from the album, won the "Anthem" award at the 2013 Progressive Music Awards.

Nine Lives is a 2016 English-language French comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and written by Gwyn Lurie, Matt R. Allen, Caleb Wilson, Dan Antoniazzi and Ben Shiffrin. The film stars Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Garner, Robbie Amell, Cheryl Hines, Malina Weissman, and Christopher Walken. The film was released by EuropaCorp on August 5, 2016.