What is live?

More definitions of "live":

• (adv): Not recorded.
  Example: "The opera was broadcast live"

• (adj): Abounding with life and energy.
  Example: "The club members are a really live bunch"

• (adj): Charged with an explosive.
  Example: "Live ammunition"; "a live bomb"

• (adj): Rebounds readily.
  Synonyms: bouncy, lively, resilient, springy, whippy

• (adj): Highly reverberant.
  Example: "A live concert hall"

• (verb): Make one's home or live in.
  Example: "I live in a 200-year old house"
  Synonyms: dwell, shack, reside, inhabit, people, populate, domicile, domiciliate

• (adj): Showing characteristics of life; exerting force or containing energy.
  Example: "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"

• (verb): Continue to live; endure or last.
  Synonyms: survive, last, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out

• (adj): Actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing.
  Example: "A live television program"; "brought to you live from Lincoln Center"; "live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience"
  Synonyms: unrecorded

• (adj): Charged or energized with electricity.
  Example: "A live wire"
  Synonyms: hot

• (verb): Support oneself.
  Example: "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"
  Synonyms: exist, survive, subsist

• (verb): Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations.
  Synonyms: know, experience

• (verb): Lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style.
  Example: "We had to live frugally after the war"

• (adj): Capable of erupting.
  Example: "A live volcano"
  Synonyms: alive

• (adj): Having life.
  Example: "A live canary"; "hit a live nerve"; "famous living painters"; "living tissue"

• (adj): Of current relevance.
  Example: "A live issue"; "still a live option"

• (adj): In current use or ready for use.
  Example: "Live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread"

• (verb): Pursue a positive and satisfying existence.
  Example: "You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live"

Famous quotes containing the word live:

“Loose now and then
A scattered smile, and that I’ll live upon.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“But there, where I have garnered up my heart,
Where either I must live or bear no life;
The fountain from the which my current runs
Or else dries up: to be discarded thence,
Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads
To knot and gender in!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Is money money or isn’t money money. Everybody who earns
it and spends it every day in order to live knows
that money is money, anybody who votes it to be
gathered in as taxes knows money is not money. That
is what makes everybody go crazy.... When you earn
money and spend money every day anybody can know the
difference between a million and three. But when you
vote money away there really is not any difference
between a million and three.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)