Definition of: live

(liv) v. lived, liv·ing v.i.
1. To be alive; have life.
2. To continue in life; remain alive: As long as you live.
3. To endure or persist; last: This day will live in infamy.
4. To maintain life; subsist: to live on a pittance.
5. To depend for food; feed: with on or upon: to live on carrion.
6. To dwell; abide.
7. To pass life in a specified manner: to live frugally.
8. To enjoy a varied and active life.
9. To escape destruction; stay afloat: No boat can live in that surf.
—v.t.
10. To pass: to live the life of a saint.
11. To manifest or practice in one's life: to live a lie.
—to live down To live in such a manner as to expiate (a crime), forget or cause to be forgotten (shame),or mature beyond (folly),
—to live high To live luxuriously.
—to live in To reside at one's place of employment.
—to live on To depend on parasitically, as for one's maintenance.
—to live out To reside away from one's place of employment.
—to live through To have experience of and survive.
—to live up to To fulfil the hopes, terms, or character of.
—to live well
1. To live luxuriously.
2. To live virtuously.
—to live with
1. To dwell with as a lodger or companion.
2. To co-habit with: also to live together.
—adjective (līv)
1. Possessing life; living; alive; quick: opposed to dead and inanimate; hence, ready for use; operative; effective.
2. Burning or glowing; a live coal.
3. Of present interest and importance; vital: a live book or topic.
4. Possessing liveliness, interest, or animation; alert; energetic: a live man of business.
5. Printing Ready for printing; kept for use: live copy.
6. Of or pertaining to living beings.
7. Containing an unexploded charge: said of munitions, etc.: a live shell.
8. Swarming with, or caused by a great number of living creatures.
9. Charged with electricity; carrying a current: a live wire.
10. Unwrought; pure; vivid: live rock or color.
11. Having motion or power to impart motion, as a part of a machine. See synonyms under ALIVE. [OE lifian live] Synonyms (verb): continue, endure, exist, feed (with on or upon), subsist, survive. See ABIDE. Antonyms: see synonyms for DIE.