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say it: lahyv
live is an adjective, verb and adverb meaning "actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing". It is pronounced /ˈlaɪv/ — lahyv. It carries 19 recorded senses.
actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing
“a live television program”
“brought to you live from Lincoln Center”
“live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience”
exerting force or containing energy
“live coals”
“tossed a live cigarette out the window”
“got a shock from a live wire”
“live ore is unmined ore”
“a live bomb”
“a live ball is one in play”
in current use or ready for use
“live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread”
printing
be an inhabitant of or reside in
“People lived in Africa millions of years ago”
“The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted”
“this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean”
“deer are populating the woods”
continue to live and avoid dying
“We went without water and food for 3 days”
“These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America”
“The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents”
“how long can a person last without food and water?”
“One crash victim died, the other lived”
have life, be alive
“Our great leader is no more”
“My grandfather lived until the end of war”
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”
pursue a positive and satisfying existence
“You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live”
not recorded
“the opera was broadcast live”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for live come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.