live: signification et définitions

To be alive; exist.

Electricity Carrying an electric current or energized with electricity: live cables lying dangerously on the ground.

To continue to be alive: lived through a bad accident.

To support oneself; subsist: living on rice and fish; lives on a small inheritance.

To reside; dwell: lives on a farm.

To conduct one's life in a particular manner: lived frugally.

To pursue a positive, satisfying existence; enjoy life: those who truly live.

To remain in human memory: an event that lives on in our minds.

To spend or pass (one's life).

To go through; experience: lived a nightmare.

To practice in one's life: live one's beliefs.

live down To overcome or reduce the shame of (a misdeed, for example) over a period of time.

live in To reside in the place where one is employed: household servants who live in.

live out To live outside one's place of domestic employment: household servants who live out.

live with To put up with; resign oneself to: disliked the situation but had to live with it.

live it up Slang To engage in festive pleasures or extravagances.

live up to To live or act in accordance with: lived up to their parents' ideals.

live up to To prove equal to: a new technology that did not live up to our expectations.

live up to To carry out; fulfill: lived up to her end of the bargain.

Having life; alive: live animals. See Synonyms at living.

Of, related to, or occurring during the life of one that is living: a live birth; the live weight of an animal before being slaughtered.

Of current interest or relevance: a live topic; still a live option.

Informal Full of life, excitement, or activity; lively: a live crowd at the parade; a live party.

Glowing; burning: live coals.

Not yet exploded but capable of being fired: live ammunition.