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Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
- (vanhahtava) lyfe
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (uncountable) 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.
- (biology) The status possessed by any of a number of entities, including animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and sometimes viruses, which have the properties of replication and metabolism.
- 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.
- (countable) A living being; the fact of a particular individual being alive. (Chiefly when indicating individuals were lost (died) or saved.)
- Existence.
- A worthwhile existence.
- A particular aspect of existence.
- (informal) Social life.
- Something which is inherently part of a person's existence, such as job, family, a loved one, etc.
- A period of time during which something has existence.
- The period during which one (a person, an animal, a plant; a civilization, species; a star; etc) is alive.
- The span of time during which an object operates.
- The period of time during which an object is recognizable.
- A particular phase or period of existence.
- A period extending from a when a (positive or negative) office, punishment, etc is conferred on someone until that person dies (or, sometimes, reaches retirement age).
- (colloquial) A life sentence; a period of imprisonment that lasts until the convict's death (or, sometimes, parole).
- Animation; spirit; vivacity.
- The most lively component or participant.
- A biography.
- Nature, reality, and the forms that exist in it.
- An opportunity for existence.
- (video games) One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made.
- (baseball, softball, cricket) A chance for the batter (or batting team) to bat again, given as a result of a misplay by a member of the fielding team.
- One of a player's chances to play in various children's playground games, lost when a mistake is made, for example being struck by the ball in dodgeball.
- (uncountable, insurance) The life insurance industry.
- (countable) A life assured under a life assurance policy (equivalent to the policy itself for a single life contract).
Huudahdus
- (obsolete) Synonym of God's life.
Verbi
- (aviation) To replace components whose operational lifetime has expired.
Esimerkit
- Having experienced both, the vampire decided that he preferred (un)death to life.
- He gave up on life.
- But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
- Many lives were lost during the war.
- One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
- “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
- 1916, Ezra Meeker, The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker
- This light bulb is designed to have a life of 2,000 hours.
- The life of this milk carton may be thousands of years in this landfill.
- "[...]I realize as never before how cheap and valueless a thing is life. Life seems a joke, a cruel, grim joke. You are a laughable incident or a terrifying one as you happen to be less powerful or more powerful than some other form of life which crosses your path; but as a rule you are of no moment whatsoever to anything but yourself. You are a comic little figure, hopping from the cradle to the grave. Yes, that is our trouble—we take ourselves too seriously; but Caprona should be a sure cure for that." She paused and laughed.
- The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
- Man's life on this planet has been marked by continual conflict.
- 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 drugs.
- No notion of life and fire in fancy and in words.
- That gives thy gestures grace and life.
- "Don't I know that it is you who is the life of this house. Two delightful children!"
- And he is the life of the party at the Musgroves for precisely this reason: the navy has made him into a great storyteller.
- She's my love, my life.
- Get a life.
- It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
- His life of the founder is finished, except for the title.
- Writers of particular lives[...]are apt to be prejudiced in favour of their subject.
- Scoring 1000 points is rewarded with an extra life.
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