| life | living things collectively, the oceans are teeming with life |
plant
flora
plant life | (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion |
| career life history | the general progression of your working or professional life, the general had had a distinguished career, he had a long career in the law |
way
path
way of life | a course of conduct, the path of virtue, we went our separate ways, our paths in life led us apart, genius usually follows a revolutionary path |
nightlife
night life | the activity of people seeking nighttime diversion (as at the theater, a nightclub, etc.), a futile search for intelligent nightlife, in the summer the nightlife shifts to the dance clubs |
| sporting life | active interest in gambling on sports events |
| nightlife night life | the entertainment available to people seeking nighttime diversion |
walk of life
walk | careers in general, it happens in all walks of life |
business life
professional life | a career in industrial or commercial or professional activities |
extravagance
prodigality
lavishness
highlife
high life | excessive spending |
cardiopulmonary resuscitation
CPR
cardiac resuscitation
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
kiss of life | an emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration, the first treatment for a person who has collapsed and has no pulse and has stopped breathing, attempts to restore circulation of the blood and prevent death or brain damage due to lack of oxygen |
sexual love
lovemaking
making love
love
love life | sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people, his lovemaking disgusted her, he hadn't had any love in months, he has a very complicated love life |
reproduction
procreation
breeding
facts of life | the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring |
| life class | an art class using a live human model |
solitary vireo
Vireo solitarius | of eastern North America having a bluish-grey head and mostly green body |
| Jaws of Life | hydraulic tool inserted into a wrecked vehicle and used to pry the wreckage apart in order to provide access to people trapped inside |
life buoy
lifesaver
life belt
life ring | a life preserver in the form of a ring of buoyant material |
life jacket
life vest
cork jacket | life preserver consisting of a sleeveless jacket of buoyant or inflatable design |
| life mask | a cast taken from the face of a living person |
| life office | life assurance office |
life preserver
preserver
flotation device | rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning |
life raft
Carling float | a raft to use if a ship must be abandoned in an emergency |
life-support system
life support | medical equipment that assists or replaces important bodily functions and so enables a patient to live who otherwise might not survive, the patient is on life support |
| life-support system life support | equipment that makes life possible in otherwise deadly environmental conditions, the astronauts relied on their life-support systems |
safety belt
life belt safety harness | belt attaching you to some object as a restraint in order to prevent you from getting hurt |
| still life | a painting of inanimate objects such as fruit or flowers |
liveliness
life spirit sprightliness | animation and energy in action or expression, it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it |
life style
life-style
lifestyle
modus vivendi | a manner of living that reflects the person's values and attitudes |
| right to life | the right to live |
| life form | the characteristic bodily form of a mature organism |
fantasy life
phantasy life | an imaginary life lived in a fantasy world |
real world
real life | the practical world as opposed to the academic world, a good consultant must have a lot of experience in the real world |
life
living | the experience of being alive, the course of human events and activities, he could no longer cope with the complexities of life |
life science
bioscience | any of the branches of natural science dealing with the structure and behavior of living organisms |
biography
life
life story
life history | an account of the series of events making up a person's life |
soliton
soliton wave
solitary wave | (physics) a quantum of energy or quasiparticle that can be propagated as a traveling wave in nonlinear systems and is neither preceded nor followed by another such disturbance, does not obey the superposition principle and does not dissipate, soliton waves can travel long distances with little loss of energy or structure |
| Life Saver | a candy shaped like a small lifesaver |
bread
breadstuff staff of life | food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked |
| elixir of life | a hypothetical substance believed to maintain life indefinitely, once sought by alchemists |
| pro-life faction | those who argue that induced abortion is killing and should be prohibited |
| life | a motive for living, pottery was his life |
biologist
life scientist | (biology) a scientist who studies living organisms |
hermit
recluse
solitary
solitudinarian
troglodyte | one who lives in solitude |
| life | a living person, his heroism saved a life |
| life peer | a British peer whose title lapses at death |
| life tenant | a tenant whose legal right to retain possession of buildings or lands lasts as long as they (or some other person) live |
vital principle
life principle | a hypothetical force to which the functions and qualities peculiar to living things are sometimes ascribed |
| life | the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones, there is no life on the moon |
| life cycle | a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage |
life force
vital force
vitality
elan vital | (biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms |