| she |
| 1. pron. (personal) The female person or animal previously mentioned or implied. | |
| I asked Mary, but she said that she didn’t know. | |
| 2. pron. (personal, sometimes affectionate) A ship or boat. | |
| She could do forty knots in good weather. | |
| She is a beautiful boat, isn’t she? | |
| 3. pron. (personal, affectionate) Another machine (besides a ship), such as a car. | |
| She only gets thirty miles to the gallon on the highway, but she’s durable. | |
| 4. pron. (personal, dated) A country. | |
| She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people. | |
| 5. pron. (personal) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant (used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun). | |
| 6. n. A female. | |
| Pat is definitely a she. | |
| lived |
| 1. v. simple past tense and past participle of live | |
| 2. adj. (in combination) Having a specified duration of life. | |
| a short-lived recycling scheme | |
| live |
| 1. v. (intransitive) To be alive; to have life. | |
| He's not expected to live for more than a few months. | |
| 2. v. (intransitive) To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside. | |
| I live at 2a Acacia Avenue. He lives in LA, but he's staying here over the summer. | |
| 3. v. (intransitive) To survive; to persevere; to continue. | |
| Her memory lives in that song. | |
| 4. v. (intransitive, hyperbole) To cope. | |
| You'll just have to live with it! I can't live in a world without you. | |
| 5. v. (intransitive) To pass life in a specified manner. | |
| It is difficult to live in poverty. And they lived happily ever after. | |
| 6. v. To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually. | |
| To live an idle or a useful life. | |
| 7. v. To act habitually in conformity with; to practice; to exemplify in one's way of life. | |
| 8. v. (intransitive) To outlast danger; to float (said of a ship, boat, etc). | |
| No ship could live in such a storm. | |
| 9. v. (intransitive, followed by "on" or "upon") To maintain or support one's existence; to provide for oneself; to feed; to subsist. | |
| It is hard to live on the minimum wage. They lived on stale bread. | |
| 10. v. (intransitive, informal) To make the most of life; to experience a full, rich life. | |
| I'm sick of spending every day studying at home: I want to go out there and live! | |
| 11. adj. (only used attributively) Having life; that is alive. | |
| The post office will not ship live animals. | |
| 12. adj. Being in existence; actual | |
| He is a live example of the consequences of excessive drinking. | |
| 13. adj. Having active properties; being energized. | |
| 14. adj. Operational; being in actual use rather than in testing. | |
| 15. adj. Taken from a living animal. | |
| live feathers | |
| 16. adj. (engineering) Imparting power; having motion. | |
| the live spindle of a lathe | |
| a live, or driving, axle | |
| 17. adj. (sports) Still in active play. | |
| a live ball | |
| 18. adj. (broadcasting) Seen or heard from a broadcast, as it happens. | |
| The station presented a live news program every evening. | |
| 19. adj. Of a performance or speech, in person. | |
| This nightclub has a live band on weekends. | |
| 20. adj. Of a recorded performance, made in front of an audience, or not having been edited after recording. | |
| 21. adj. Of firearms or explosives, capable of causing harm. | |
| The air force practices dropping live bombs on the uninhabited island. | |
| 22. adj. (circuitry) Electrically charged or energized, usually indicating that the item may cause electrocution if touched. | |
| Use caution when working near live wires. | |
| 23. adj. (poker) Being a bet which can be raised by the bettor, usually in reference to a blind or straddle. | |
| Tommy's blind was live, so he was given the option to raise. | |
| 24. adj. Featuring humans; not animated, in the phrases “live actors” or “live action”. | |
| 25. adj. Being in a state of ignition; burning. | |
| a live coal; live embers | |
| 26. adj. (obsolete) Full of earnestness; active; wide awake; glowing. | |
| a live man, or orator | |
| 27. adj. (obsolete) Vivid; bright. | |
| 28. adv. Of an event, as it happens; in real time; direct. | |
| The concert was broadcast live by radio. | |
| 29. adv. Of making a performance or speech, in person. | |
| He'll be appearing live at the auditorium. | |
| 30. n. (obsolete) life. | |
| a |
| 1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group. | |
| There was a man here looking for you yesterday. | |
| 2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word. | |
| I've seen it happen a hundred times. | |
| 3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003) | |
| We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London. | |
| 4. art. The same; one. | |
| We are of a mind on matters of morals. | |
| 5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007) | |
| A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties. | |
| He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head? | |
| 6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc. | |
| 7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it. | |
| The center of the village was becoming a Times Square. | |
| 8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto. | |
| Stand a tiptoe. | |
| 9. prep. To do with separation; In, into. | |
| Torn a pieces. | |
| 10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by. | |
| I brush my teeth twice a day. | |
| 11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with. | |
| 12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In. | |
| A God’s name. | |
| 13. prep. To do with status; In. | |
| King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18) | |
| To set the people a worke. | |
| 14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing. | |
| 1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’ | |
| The times, they are a-changin'. | |
| 15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in. | |
| 1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21 | |
| Jacob, when he was a dying | |
| 16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into. | |
| 17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have. | |
| I'd a come, if you'd a asked. | |
| 18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He. | |
| 19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah. | |
| 20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of. | |
| The name of John a Gaunt. | |
| 21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
| 22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
| prosaic |
| 1. adj. Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose. | |
| The tenor of Eliot's prosaic work differs greatly from that of his poetry. | |
| 2. adj. (of writing or speaking) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry. | |
| I was simply making the prosaic point that we are running late. | |
| 3. adj. (main usage, usually of writing or speaking but also figurative) Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring; humdrum; dull; unimaginative. | |
| His account of the incident was so prosaic that I nodded off while reading it. | |
| She lived a prosaic life. | |
| life |
| 1. n. The state of organisms preceding their death, characterized by biological processes such as metabolism and reproduction and distinguishing them from inanimate objects; the state of being alive and liv | |
| Having experienced both, the vampire decided that he preferred (un)death to life. He gave up on life. | |
| 2. n. (biology) The status possessed by any of a number of entities, including animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and sometimes viruses, which have the proper | |
| 3. n. The animating principle or force that keeps an inorganic thing or concept metaphorically alive (dynamic, relevant, etc) and makes it a "living document", "living constitution", etc. | |
| 4. n. Lifeforms, generally or collectively. | |
| It's life, but not as we know it. She discovered plant life on the planet. The rover discovered signs of life on the alien world. | |
| 5. n. A living individual; the fact of a particular individual being alive. (Chiefly when indicating individuals were lost (died) or saved.) | |
| Many lives were lost during the war. Her quick thinking saved many dogs' lives. | |
| 6. n. Existence | |
| Man's life on this planet has been marked by continual conflict. the eternal life of the soul | |
| 7. n. A worthwhile existence. | |
| He gets up early in the morning, works all day long — even on weekends — and hardly sees his family. That's no life! His life was ruined by | |
| 8. n. A particular aspect of existence. | |
| He struggled to balance his family life, social life and work life. sex life, political life | |
| 9. n. (informal) Social life. | |
| Get a life. | |
| 10. n. Something which is inherently part of a person's existence, such as job, family, a loved one, etc. | |
| She's my love, my life. Running the bakery is her life. | |
| 11. n. A period of time during which something has existence. | |
| 12. n. The period during which one (a person, an animal, a plant; a civilization, species; a star; etc) is alive. | |
| This light bulb is designed to have a life of 2,000 hours. | |
| 13. n. The span of time during which an object operates. | |
| 14. n. The period of time during which an object is recognizable. | |
| The life of this milk carton may be thousands of years in this landfill. | |
| 15. n. A particular phase or period of existence. | |
| 16. n. A period extending from a when a (positive or negative) office, punishment, etc is conferred on someone until that person dies (or, sometimes, reaches | |
| 17. n. # (colloquial) A life sentence; a period of imprisonment that lasts until the convict's death (or, sometimes, parole). | |
| 18. n. Animation; spirit; vivacity. | |
| 19. n. The most lively component or participant. | |
| 20. n. A biography. | |
| His life of the founder is finished, except for the title. | |
| 21. n. Nature, reality, and the forms that exist it. | |
| 22. n. An opportunity for existence. | |
| 23. n. (video games) One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made. | |
| Scoring 1000 points is rewarded with an extra life. | |
| 24. n. (baseball, softball) A chance for the batter (or batting team) to bat again, given as a result of an misplay by a member of the fielding team. | |
| 25. n. (insurance) The life insurance industry. | |
| I work in life. | |
| 26. n. A life assured under a life assurance policy (equivalent to the policy itself for a single life contract). | |
