Definition of Life

Babylon English Dictionary
of life; lifelong
state of being alive (manifested by growth, reproduction, etc.); living organism, something which is alive; life span; time during which something exists or functions; lifestyle; energy; activity; biography; life sentence to prison (Slang)
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Life Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
(n.)
The system of animal nature; animals in general, or considered collectively.
  
(n.)
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.
  
(n.)
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.
  
(n.)
The living or actual form, person, thing, or state; as, a picture or a description from the life.
  
(n.)
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.
  
(n.)
Something dear to one as one's existence; a darling; -- used as a term of endearment.
  
(n.)
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.
  
(n.)
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.
  
(n.)
Enjoyment in the right use of the powers; especially, a spiritual existence; happiness in the favor of God; heavenly felicity.
  
(n.)
Animation; spirit; vivacity; vigor; energy.
  
(n.)
An essential constituent of life, esp. the blood.
  
(n.)
A person; a living being, usually a human being; as, many lives were sacrificed.
  
(n.)
A history of the acts and events of a life; a biography; as, Johnson wrote the life of Milton.
  
(n.)
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.
  
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. About
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life
\life\ (līf), n.; pl. lives (līvz). [as. līf; akin to d. lijf body, g. leib body, mhg. līp life, body, ohg. līb life, icel. līf, life, body, sw. lif, dan. liv, and e. live, v. ?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.
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. she shows a body rather than a life.
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 co?perative functions; the vital force, whether regarded as physical or spiritual.
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.
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. that which before us lies in daily life. by experience of life abroad in the world. lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. 't is from high life high characters are drawn.
6. animation; spirit; vivacity; vigor; energy. no notion of life and fire in fancy and in words. that gives thy gestures grace and life.
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.
8. the living or actual form, person, thing, or state; as, a picture or a description from the life.
9. a person; a living being, usually a human being; as, many lives were sacrificed.
10. the system of animal nature; animals in general, or considered collectively. full nature swarms with life.
11. an essential constituent of life, esp. the blood. the words that i speak unto you they are life. vi. 63. the warm life came issuing through the wound.
12. a history of the acts and events of a life; a biography; as, johnson wrote the life of milton.
13. enjoyment in the right use of the powers; especially, a spiritual existence; happiness in the favor of god; heavenly felicity.
14. 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 persons are hauled through the waves and surf.
life
drop, a drop of vital blood.
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 wit



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 life-weary 
 life assurance 
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 larger-than-life 
 change of life 
 life cycle 
 life is hard 
 real life 
 life interest 
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 life school 
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 life science 
 life-of-man 
 life guard 
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 life-or-death 
 life jacket 
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 life vest 
 true to life 
 to sell one`s life dearly 
 to seek the life of 
 life rent 
 love life 
The Phrase Finder
Origin
From Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Meaning
An easy and pleasant life.
Origin
Who Riley was isn't clear. The earliest recorded reference is a 1919 song - My name is Kelly.
'Faith and my name is Kelly, Michael Kelly
but I'm living the life of Reiley just the same'.
Meaning
'Beer and skittles' is shorthand for a life of indulgence spent in the pub.
Origin
Skittles, aka ninepins, has been a popular English pub game since the 17th century. The pins are set up in a square pattern and players attempt to knock them down with a ball. Still played but not so much as before.
Meaning
Jesus Christ.
Origin
From John 6,35. 'And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.'
Meaning
Give me your money or I will kill you.
Origin
The traditional greeting given to their victims by highwaymen (robbers who preyed on travellers in english stagecoaches in 18th and 19th century). Owes more to literary imagination than to historical record.
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Concise English-Irish Dictionary v. 1.1
an saol, beatha
eternal life: beatha síoraí
May you enjoy your new life: Go maire sibh bhur saol nua
English Phonetics

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Adfyw = n. m. lack of life; fallow a. revived, alive again
Beroes = n. short life
Buch = n. life; cattle, kine
Buchedd = n. course of life
Bucheddiad = n. a leading, a life
Byrhoedledd = n. shortness of life
Bywyd = life, existence
Dyhenydd = n. giver of life
Einioes = n. course of life, life
Eirioes = n. purity of life
Enaid = n. a soul; life
Ermoed = adv. in all my life
Gen = n. intellect; soul life; mouth, a jaw; a chin
Heinydd = n. seat of life
Hireinios = n. a long life
Hoedl = n. duration of life
Hoedlog = a. having life, lived
Lleianaeth = n. life of a nun
Meudwyaeth = n. hermit's life
Mordwyaeth = n. a seafaring life
Oes = n. an age, period of life. Oes oesoedd, for ever and ever
Oesi = v. to pass through life; to live
Oesiad = n. a passing through life, an existing
Oesran = n. assigned period of life
Og = n. what is full of motion or life; youth; a harrow, a. apt to move; youthful
The Devil's Dictionary
Life, (n.)

A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed. The question, "Is life worth living?" has been much discussed; particularly by those who think it is not, many of whom have written at great length in support of their view and by careful observance of the laws of health enjoyed for long terms of years the honors of successful controversy.

"Life's not worth living, and that's the truth,"
Carelessly caroled the golden youth.
In manhood still he maintained that view
And held it more strongly the older he grew.
When kicked by a jackass at eighty-three,
"Go fetch me a surgeon at once!" cried he.

Han Soper
  
The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce, 1911 (About)
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Australian Slang
call proclaiming that one is bar (from "bar" - to forbid, exclude, preclude)
under no circumstances
exhortation to someone to become worthwhile, to start living an interesting and fulfilling life; catch-phrase expressing derision at another person's life, view of life, point of view, etc.
expression of encouragement or consent
mouth to mouth resuscitation
catch-phrase expressing a dismal outlook on life, used when one feels that things are peculiarly bad
catch-phrase expressing a dismal outlook on life, used when one feels that things are peculiarly bad
1. seamy elements of society, as those involved with drug trafficking, prostitution, etc.; 2. despicable person; scumbag; 3. of or pertaining to such people: “low-life scum”
absolutely not
a bit slow
exclamation indicating resignation or tolerance
you may be sure; certainly; indeed
WordNet 2.0

Noun
1. a characteristic state or mode of living; "social life"; "city life"; "real life"
(hypernym) being, beingness, existence
(hyponym) ghetto
2. 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"
(hypernym) being, beingness, existence
3. the experience of living; the course of human events and activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life"
(synonym) living
(hypernym) experience
4. 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"
(synonym) animation, living, aliveness
(hypernym) being, beingness, existence
(hyponym) eternal life, life eternal
(attribute) alive(p)
5. 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"
(synonym) lifetime, lifespan
(hypernym) time period, period of time, period
(hyponym) life expectancy
(part-meronym) birth
6. the period between birth and the present time; "I have known him all his life"
(hypernym) time period, period of time, period
(part-meronym) past
7. animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it"
(synonym) liveliness, spirit, sprightliness
(hypernym) animation, spiritedness, invigoration, brio, vivification
(hyponym) airiness, delicacy
(attribute) lively
8. an account of the series of events making up a person's life
(synonym) biography, life story, life history
(hypernym) history, account, chronicle, story
(hyponym) autobiography
9. the period from the present until death; "he appointed himself emperor for life"
(hypernym) time period, period of time, period
(hyponym) days, years
10. a living person; "his heroism saved a life"
(hypernym) person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
11. living things collectively; "the oceans are teeming with life"
(hypernym) living thing, animate thing
(hyponym) wildlife
12. a motive for living; "pottery was his life"
(hypernym) motivation, motive, need
13. the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones; "there is no life on the moon"
(hypernym) organic phenomenon
(hyponym) biology
14. a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives; "he got life for killing the guard"
(synonym) life sentence
(hypernym) prison term, sentence, time
Life Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries
Company Info: Ticker, Name, Description
Lifeline Systems, Inc.
Exchange: Nasdaq
Holding company with subsidiaries which develop, manufacture and market a personal response service which provides home assistance and personalized support primarily to individuals with medical or age-related conditions and those physicaly challenged.
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Life Financial Corporation
Exchange: Nasdaq
Savings and loan holding company with subsidiary which performs savings bank operations, mortgage banking services and other related financial activities.
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Life Definition from Social Science Dictionaries & Glossaries
Dream Quotations
Dreams are necessary to life.
  
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
  
Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life?
  
When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.
  
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
  
What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
  
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
  
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.
  
Life Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
Bureau of Labor Statistics Glossary
A contract that pays the beneficiary a set sum of money upon the death of the policyholder. These plans pay benefits as a lump sum.
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Life Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries
Electronic Games
Lives are the counter of time that the character can died or fainted before "game over".

In this picture the number on top left (1) is the number of remaining lives.
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n. 1. A cellular-automata game invented by John Horton Conway and first introduced publicly by Martin Gardner ("Scientific American", October 1970); the game's popularity had to wait a few years for computers on which it could reasonably be played, as it's no fun to simulate the cells by hand. Many hackers pass through a stage of fascination with it, and hackers at various places contributed heavily to the mathematical analysis of this game (most notably Bill Gosper at MIT, who even implemented life in TECO!; see Gosperism). When a hacker mentions `life', he is much more likely to mean this game than the magazine, the breakfast cereal, or the human state of existence. 2. The opposite of Usenet. As in "Get a life!"
Life Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Life (cf. biota) is a characteristic that distinguishes objects that have signaling and self-sustaining processes from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased (death), or else because they lack such functions and are classified as . Biology is the science concerned with the study of life.

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Life generally refers to three American magazines:
  • A humor and general interest magazine published from 1883 to 1936. Time founder Henry Luce bought the magazine in 1936 solely so that he could acquire the rights to its name.
  • A weekly news magazine launched by Luce in 1936, with a strong emphasis on photojournalism. Life was published weekly until 1972; as an intermittent "special" until 1978; and as a monthly from 1978 to 2000.
  • A weekly newspaper supplement published by Time Inc. from 2004 to 2007 and included in some American newspapers.
  • A website, life.com, from March 2009 to Jan. 2012, a joint venture with Getty Images under the name See Your World, LLC.
  • Jan. 30, 2012 launched as a photo channel on Time.com

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life:) may refer to:
  • , a mobile network operator in Belarus
  • , a mobile network operator in Ukraine

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The lithium iron phosphate battery, also called LFP battery, is a type of rechargeable battery, specifically a lithium-ion battery, which uses as a cathode material.

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Life Definition from Society & Culture Dictionaries & Glossaries
The Scotch Whisky by SDA v.4.20
Long Life Old quality Whisky, Blended Scotch Whisky
By: Worthyman Blending Co. (Glasgow, Scotland)
Scottish Wild Life Aberfeldy 15 YO, Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Scottish Wild Life Balmenach 10 YO, Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Scottish Wild Life Imperial 16 YO, Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Scottish Wild Life Mortlach 10 YO, Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Scottish Wild Life Strathmill 10 YO, Single Malt Scotch Whisky

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Life Definition from Entertainment & Music Dictionaries & Glossaries
English to Federation-Standard Golic Vulcan
ha'kiv
English - Klingon
n. yIn
n. yIntagh - life-support system
Life Definition from Religion & Spirituality Dictionaries & Glossaries
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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).
stood also in the midst of the garden of Eden (Gen. 2:9; 3:22). Some writers have advanced the opinion that this tree had some secret virtue, which was fitted to preserve life. Probably the lesson conveyed was that life was to be sought by man, not in himself or in his own power, but from without, from Him who is emphatically the Life (John 1:4; 14:6). Wisdom is compared to the tree of life (Prov. 3:18). The "tree of life" spoken of in the Book of Revelation (Rev. 2:7; 22:2, 14) is an emblem of the joys of the celestial paradise. Tree of the knowledge of good and evil - stood in the midst of the garden of Eden, beside the tree of life (Gen. 2, 3). Adam and Eve were forbidden to take of the fruit which grew upon it. But they disobeyed the divine injunction, and so sin and death by sin entered our world and became the heritage of Adam's posterity. (See ADAM.)
Rakefet
Life Life per se is conscious, substantial, spiritual force, manifesting in myriad ways as the various lives and as forms of energy, whether macrocosmic, microcosmic, or infinitesimal. Force and substance, or life, are essential aspects of universal reality which in its highest is termed cosmic life-substance-intelligence. As there is a vast scale of substance-forces existing in all-various degrees of ethereality, so "there is life per se, in individuals manifesting as a vital fluid belonging to each one such grade or stage or plane of material manifestation -- and these vital fluids in their aggregate form what we may call the Universal Life, manifesting in appropriate form on any one plane and functioning therefore through the various matters of that plane" (ET 431).
Life as an entity or process is all that is, the basis or essence of all that is -- beginningless and endless. It is the spiritual electricity, or the vital svabhava, of the monad, which it pours forth out of itself and thus produces the individual characteristics of every entity, celestial or terrestrial.
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Life Definition from Medicine Dictionaries & Glossaries
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The upturned thumbs of the 'A' hands move in unison up the chest.