Usually means: Existence characterized by growth, responsiveness.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word live:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. live: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. live: Merriam-Webster
  3. live, live: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. live, live: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. live: Collins English Dictionary
  6. live: Vocabulary.com
  7. LIve, Live, live: Wordnik
  8. live: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. live: Wiktionary
  10. live: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. live: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. live: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. live: Dictionary.com
  14. live (adj.), live (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. live: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. LiVe (Jonas Brothers album), ...Live, Live (Alice in Chains album), Live (Alison Krauss album), Live (America album), Live (Anna Vissi album), Live (Bad Brains album), Live (Ben Folds Five album), Live (Big Star album), Live (Bill Frisell album), Live (Blind Guardian album), Live (Blondie album), Live (Bouncing Souls album), Live (Built to Spill album), Live (Burning Spear album), Live (Candlemass album), Live (Cassandra Wilson album), Live (Chizh & Co album), Live (City and Colour album), Live (D.R.I. album), Live (Danish TV series), Live (Deftones EP), Live (Deftones album), Live (Delbert McClinton album), Live (Donny Hathaway album), Live (Erykah Badu album), Live (Eurythmics video), Live (Face to Face album), Live (Fleetwood Mac album), Live (Gipsy Kings album), Live (Godsmack DVD), Live (Golden Earring album), Live (Guano Apes album), Live (Ian McLagan album), Live (Iron Butterfly album), Live (Jake Shimabukuro album), Live (James Taylor album), Live (Jean-Luc Ponty album), Live (John-Luc Ponty album), Live (Johnny Mathis album), Live (Jonas Brothers album), Live (Kix album), Live (Klaus Schulze album), Live (Korn DVD), Live (Lara Fabian album), Live (Meat Loaf video), Live (Metal Church album), Live (Mott the Hoople album), Live (NEWS album), Live (Natalie MacMaster album), Live (Nekropolis album), Live (New Grass Revival album), Live (Our Lady Peace album), Live (Paul Desmond album), Live (Poco), Live (Poco album), Live (Return to Forever album), Live (Roxus EP), Live (Roxy Music album), Live (Running Wild Album), Live (Running Wild album), Live (SAHB album), Live (Sade video), Live (Saint Vitus album), Live (Saxon album), Live (Simon Webbe album), Live (Soft Cell album), Live (Spock's Beard album), Live (String Sisters album), Live (Sunny Day Real Estate album), Live (T.S.O.L. album), Live (TV series), Live (Tabitha's Secret album), Live (Tabitha's Secret live album), Live (Tanya Tucker album), Live (Terri Hendrix album), Live (The Black Crowes album), Live (The Black Keys album), Live (The Bouncing Souls album), Live (The Clarks album), Live (The Dubliners album), Live (The Fabulous Thunderbirds album), Live (The Mars Volta EP), Live (The Merry-Go-Round song), Live (They Might Be Giants album), Live (Thunder album), Live (Tig Notaro album), Live (Trouble Funk album), Live (UFO album), Live (Usher album), Live (Vanessa Paradis album), Live (X Cert), Live (Zebra album), Live (band), Live (face to face album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. live: Rhymezone
  18. live, live, live: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. live: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Live: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. live: FreeDictionary.org
  22. live: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. live: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Live, Live, .live: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  25. Live: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  26. live: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Media Terms (No longer online)
  2. Live (disambiguation), Live (music), live: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Live (disambiguation), Live (music), live: Encyclopedia
  2. live: Netlingo

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. live: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Live (disambiguation), live: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. LIVE: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. live: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. live: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. live, live: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. live: The Folk File
  3. live: Urban Dictionary
  4. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Live: Dan's Poker
  2. Live: Poker Terms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. live: Electronics

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To be alive; to have life.
verb:  (intransitive) To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) (of an object) to have its proper place; to normally be stored.
verb:  (intransitive) To survive; to persevere; to continue.
verb:  (intransitive) To endure in memory; to escape oblivion.
verb:  (intransitive, hyperbolic) To cope.
verb:  (intransitive) To pass life in a specified manner.
verb:  (transitive) To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually.
verb:  (transitive) To act habitually in conformity with; to practice; to exemplify in one's way of life.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To live as; to live being.
verb:  (intransitive) To outlast danger; to float (said of a ship, boat, etc).
verb:  (intransitive, followed by on, upon, or by) To maintain or support one's existence; to provide for oneself; to feed; to subsist.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To make the most of life; to experience a full, rich life.
adjective:  (only used attributively) Having life; that is alive.
adjective:  Being in existence; actual.
adjective:  Having active properties; being energized.
adjective:  Operational; in actual use rather than in testing etc.
adjective:  (programming) Of an object or value: that may potentially be used in the future execution of a program.
adjective:  Taken from a living animal.
adjective:  (engineering) Imparting power; having motion.
adjective:  (sports) Still in active play.
adjective:  (card games) Of a card: not yet dealt or played.
adjective:  (broadcasting) Being broadcast ("on the air"), as it happens.
adjective:  (of a performance or speech) In person.
adjective:  (entertainment, performing) Recorded from a performance in front of an audience.
adjective:  Able to fire or explode (of firearms or explosives).
adjective:  Of an environment where sound is recorded: having noticeable reverberation.
adjective:  (circuitry) Electrically charged or energized, usually indicating that the item may cause electrocution if touched.
adjective:  (poker) Being a bet which can be raised by the bettor, usually in reference to a blind or straddle.
adjective:  (film) Featuring humans; not animated, in the phrases “live actors” or “live action”.
adjective:  Being in a state of ignition; burning.
adjective:  (obsolete) Vivid; bright.
adjective:  (slang)
adjective:  (dated) Energetic, attentive, active.
adjective:  Outstanding, top-notch, exhilarating.
adjective:  (linguistics) Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: resonating, not ending abruptly.
adverb:  Of an event, as it happens; in real time; direct.
adverb:  Of making a performance or speech, in person.

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