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Is live a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To be alive; to have life.Examples: "He's not expected to live for more than a few months."intransitive
2. (intransitive) To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.Examples: "I live at 2a Acacia Avenue. At that time I'd been living in a camper for about six months."; "Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn."; "It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers."Synonyms: rangeintransitive
3. (intransitive) To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.Examples: "I washed your gravy boat. Where does it live?"Synonyms: rangeinformalintransitive
4. (intransitive) To survive; to persevere; to continue.Examples: "When Lazarus left his charnel-cave, And home to Mary’s house return’d, […] ‘Where wert thou, brother, those four days?’ There lives no record of reply, Which telling what it is to die Had surely added praise to praise."Synonyms: go onintransitive
5. (intransitive) To endure in memory; to escape oblivion.Examples: "Her memory lives in that song."; "He has now overseen three straight victories since taking over from Claudio Ranieri and this latest win, against one of the best teams in Europe, will live long in the memory for every Leicester supporter."intransitive
6. (intransitive, hyperbolic) To cope.Examples: "You'll just have to live with it! I can't live in a world without you."excessiveintransitive
adj (English)
1. (only used attributively) Having life; that is alive.Examples: "The post office will not ship live animals."Synonyms: livingattributive
2. Operational; in actual use rather than in testing etc.Examples: "An object in the heap is live if its address is held in a root, or there is a pointer to it held in another live heap node."Antonyms: dead
3. (engineering) Imparting power; having motion.Examples: "the live spindle of a lathe"; "a live, or driving, axle"
4. (sports) Still in active play.Examples: "a live ball"
5. (card games) Of a card: not yet dealt or played.Examples: "As a beginner, when you are in a hand, you should practice counting your outs, or those live cards left in the deck that can improve your hand."
6. (broadcasting) Being broadcast ("on the air"), as it happens.Examples: "The station presented a live news program every evening."; "Are we live?"
Definition source: Wiktionary