living thing animate thing | a living (or once living) entity |
topminnow poeciliid fish poeciliid live-bearer | small usually brightlyolored viviparous surface-feeding fishes of fresh or brackish warm waters, often used in mosquito control |
housing lodging living accommodations | structures collectively in which people are housed |
live axle driving axle | the axle of a self-propelled vehicle that provides the driving power |
live load superload | a variable load on a structure (e.g. a bridge) such as moving traffic |
living quarters quarters | housing available for people to live in, he found quarters for his family, I visited his bachelor quarters |
living room livingoom sitting room front room parlor parlour | a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax |
Sabin vaccine oral poliovirus vaccine OPV trivalent live oral poliomyelitis vaccine TOPV | an oral vaccine (containing live but weakened poliovirus) that is given to provide immunity to poliomyelitis |
free living | a lifestyle given to easy indulgence of the appetites |
live body | the body of a living animal or person |
protoplasm living substance | the substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus) |
living arrangement | an arrangement to allow people (or ideas) to coexist |
life living | the experience of being alive, the course of human events and activities, he could no longer cope with the complexities of life |
living will | a document written by someone still legally capable requesting that he should be allowed to die if subsequently severely disabled or suffering terminal illness, after he discovered he had AIDS he drew up a living will |
consumer price index CPI cost-of-living index | an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer |
live birth | the birth of a living fetus (regardless of the length of gestation) |
living | people who are still living, save your pity for the living |
eager beaver busy bee live wire sharpie sharpy | an alert and energetic person |
zombi zombie living dead | a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force |
sensitive plant touch-me-not shame plant live-and-die humble plant action plant Mimosa pudica | prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia, heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft grey-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled |
lithops living stone stoneface stone-face stone plant stone life face flowering stone | any plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones |
living granite living rock stone mimicry plant | highly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with grey-green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite, South Africa |
living rock Ariocarpus fissuratus | usually unbranched usually spineless cactus covered with warty tubercles and having magenta flowers and white or green fruit, resembles the related mescal, northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States |
live oak | any of several American evergreen oaks |
coast live oak California live oak Quercus agrifolia | highly variable often shrubby evergreen oak of coastal zone of western North America having small thick usually spiny-toothed dark-green leaves |
canyon oak canyon live oak maul oak iron oak Quercus chrysolepis | medium-sized evergreen of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico with oblong leathery often spiny-edged leaves |
southern live oak Quercus virginiana | medium-sized evergreen native to eastern North America to the east coast of Mexico, often cultivated as shade tree for it wide-spreading crown, extremely hard tough durable wood once used in shipbuilding |
interior live oak Quercus wislizenii Quercus wizlizenii | a small shrubby evergreen tree of western North America similar to the coast live oak but occurring chiefly in foothills of mountain ranges removed from the coast, an important part of the chaparral |
orpine orpin livelong live-forever Sedum telephium | perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers |
cost-of-living allowance | an allowance for changes in the consumer price index |
living wage | a wage sufficient for a worker and family to subsist comfortably |
cost-of-living benefit | a benefit that goes to anyone whose money receipts increase automatically as prices rise |
cost of living | average cost of basic necessities of life (as food and shelter and clothing), a rise in the cost of living reflects the rate of inflation |
living trust inter vivos trust | a trust created and operating during the grantor's lifetime |
support keep livelihood living bread and butter sustenance | the financial means whereby one lives, each child was expected to pay for their keep, he applied to the state for support, he could no longer earn his own livelihood |
living space lebensraum | space sought for occupation by a nation whose population is expanding |
standard of living standard of life | a level of material comfort in terms of goods and services available to someone or some group, they enjoyed the highest standard of living in the country, the lower the standard of living the easier it is to introduce an autocratic production system |
animation life living aliveness | 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 |
living death | a state of constant misery |
live steam | steam coming from a boiler at full pressure |
know experience live | have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations, I know the feeling!, have you ever known hunger?, I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict, The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare, I lived through two divorces |
relive live over | experience again, often in the imagination, He relived the horrors of war |
accept live with swallow | tolerate or accommodate oneself to, I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions, I swallowed the insult, She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies |
live in sleep in | live in the house where one works, our babysitter lives in, as it is too far to commute for her |
live out sleep out | work in a house where one does not live, our cook lives out, he can easily commute from his home |
live it up | enjoy oneself, it's your birthday, so let's live it up! |
be live | have life, be alive, Our great leader is no more, My grandfather lived until the end of war |
live | lead a certain kind of life, live in a certain style, we had to live frugally after the war |
live | pursue a positive and satisfying existence, You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live |
unlive live down | live so as to annul some previous behavior, You can never live this down! |