live
- adjective
- /lɪv/
- It was live on CNN, live on Fox, live on MSNBC.
- a live performance
- live video
- a live broadcast
Welcome back and welcome back to the live stream as well.
- Welcome back and welcome back to the live stream as well.
- Anything where it's live that counts as live TV, right?
- Hello guys, we are so excited for this live show Thursday in LA.
- I give you my live reaction to it.
- So first of all live show tickets are on sale.
- I've done hundreds of these live streams as part of videos.
- Now we bring out the light and we are live for the God.
- First, I'm ending all live streams for at least one month.
Examples
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Welcome back and welcome back to the live stream as well.
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The concert was streamed live online, allowing fans to watch from their homes.
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So Sarah and I are going to do a live show soon?
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We're back to a live picture now.
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Tune in here for the live coverage of the press conference later today.
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Newscasts on both television and radio carried live coverage of the results throughout the evening.
Academic text (1993) -
Stream the NFL on CBS live on Paramount Plus.
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Welcome to the Hackney Empire live on stage, Dan Carter.
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A nearby TV monitor glows with the live coverage of Robin's morning press briefing.
Fiction book (1995) -
We're live at the Los Angeles International Speedway as the first competitor, Lightning McQueen, is arriving at the track.
Synonyms
Broadcasting live on radio or television for the public
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
Lead a life full of risk and excitement by doing dangerous things
- Informal
To be very excited about something and always make it a main part of life
- NSFW
A couple who live together and have sex without being married, often seen as wrong by some people
To stay constantly in someone's thoughts and annoy them
Compounds
A medium-sized evergreen oak tree with leathery spiny-edged leaves that grows in dry canyons in southwestern US and northwestern Mexico
- Specialized
An evergreen oak tree with small, thick, spiny dark green leaves that grows on the coast of California
- Specialized
A short bushy evergreen tree that grows along the west coast of North America with small thick spiny leaves
- Australian
A small bush from the tropics whose leaves fold when touched and that has sharp thorns
A small hardy plant with thick leaves that forms low clusters and small purple and white flowers
- Specialized
An evergreen tree with thick leaves that grows in dry hills of western North America
- Specialized
A medicine taken by mouth that contains three weakened live polio viruses to protect against polio
An evergreen tree from the southern United States with wide, spreading branches and very hard wood
How Immediate
Surface Forms
Etymology
Live comes from an old English word life meaning 'life'. A live broadcast is like something 'alive' on the air, happening now and not recorded, so live means happening at the same time it is seen or heard.