live
- adjective
- /lɪv/
- During our visit to the farm, we saw many live animals, including cows and sheep grazing peacefully.
- live births
- live vaccine
- live poultry
Now probiotics actually contain live bacteria, OK.
- Now probiotics actually contain live bacteria, OK.
- And still not a single conversation with a real live person.
- We wouldn't use a live person as bait, let alone a child.
Examples
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So do you have any live people?
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Our trailer stood in a patch of live oaks, with gray moss hanging down.
Fiction book (1990) -
And still not a single conversation with a real live person.
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Of women with at least one live birth, 14% had lost a child.
Academic text (2011) -
The engineers use live cells taken directly from the patient's body part to be replaced.
Academic text (2012) -
We've got a live one.
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At one stage, I had a double cage with a live chicken and a stuffed rabbit.
Academic text (2015) -
Four of the patients had a history of contact with live chickens or visiting a live poultry market.
Academic text (2013) -
The rate for white mothers was 37.0 per 10,000 live births compared to 91.0 for black mothers.
Academic text (1994) -
The magician amazed the audience with a trick involving a live rabbit that appeared from a hat.
Synonyms
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 Alive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Live comes from an old English word life meaning 'life'. So to call someone or something live is to say it is full of 'life' and energy, which is why we use live for people or groups who seem energetic.