life
Significado (English)
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- 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 living.
- 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 living.
- 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.
- Lifeforms, generally or collectively.
- A living individual; the fact of a particular individual being alive. (Chiefly when indicating individuals were lost (died) or saved.)
- Existence.
- Existence.
- (informal) Existence.
- Existence.
- Existence.
- A period of time during which something has existence.
- A period of time during which something has existence.
- A period of time during which something has existence.
- A period of time during which something has existence.
- A period of time during which something has existence.
- (colloquial) A period of time during which something has existence.
- Animation; spirit; vivacity.
- Animation; spirit; vivacity.
- A biography.
- Nature, reality, and the forms that exist in it.
- An opportunity for existence.
- An opportunity for existence.
- An opportunity for existence.
- An opportunity for existence.
- The life insurance industry.
- A life assured under a life assurance policy (equivalent to the policy itself for a single life contract).
Conceptos
duración de la vida
modo de vida
plazo de vencimiento
Synonyms
everyday life
this world
present world
present age
transient world
duration of life
good health
human life
life imprisonment
course of life
living being
material world
term of maturity
breath of life
vital principle
lead a life
be alive
self-portrayal
being alive
familiar spirit
length of life
length of service
long life
living creatures
personal history
his-tory
principle of life
vital air
living activities
emotion
Frecuencia
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/laɪf/
Etimología (English)
In summary
From Middle English lyf, from Old English līf, from Proto-West Germanic *līb, from Proto-Germanic *lībą (“life, body”), from *lībaną (“to remain, stay, be left”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick, glue”). Cognate with Scots life, leif (“life”), North Frisian liff (“life, limb, person, livelihood”), West Frisian liif (“belly, abdomen”), Dutch lijf (“body”), Low German lif (“body; life, life-force; waist”), German Leib (“body; womb”) and Leben (“life”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish liv (“life; waist”), Icelandic líf (“life”). Related to belive.
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