Meaning of life | Babel Free

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1. 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.
   uncountable, usually
2. God.
3. A surname.
4. 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.
   uncountable, usually
5. Conway's Game of Life.
6. To become animated; grow excited.
7. lifestyle
8. 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.
   uncountable, usually
9. Desperately or urgently: I ran for dear life when I saw the tiger.
10. livelihood; living
11. Lifeforms, generally or collectively.
    uncountable, usually
12. Till the end of one's life.
13. liveliness
14. A living being; the fact of a particular individual being alive. (Chiefly when indicating individuals were lost (died) or saved.)
    countable, usually
15. Though trying hard: For the life of me I couldn't remember his name.
16. lifespan; lifetime
17. Existence.
    uncountable, usually
18. Absolutely not; not for any reason whatsoever.
19. A worthwhile existence.
    uncountable, usually
20. To commit suicide.
21. A particular aspect of existence.
    uncountable, usually
22. To take a dangerous risk.
23. Social life.
    informal, uncountable, usually
24. To commit murder.
25. Something which is inherently part of a person's existence, such as job, family, a loved one, etc.
    uncountable, usually
26. A wealthy, luxurious way of living.
27. A period of time during which something has existence.
    uncountable, usually
28. The period during which one (a person, an animal, a plant; a civilization, species; a star; etc) is alive.
    uncountable, usually
29. An easy life.
30. The span of time during which an object operates.
    uncountable, usually
31. The period of time during which an object is recognizable.
    uncountable, usually
32. A particular phase or period of existence.
    uncountable, usually
33. 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).
    uncountable, usually
34. A life sentence; a period of imprisonment that lasts until the convict's death (or, sometimes, parole).
    colloquial, uncountable, usually
35. Animation; spirit; vivacity.
    uncountable, usually
36. The most lively component or participant.
    uncountable, usually
37. A biography.
    uncountable, usually
38. Nature, reality, and the forms that exist in it.
    uncountable, usually
39. An opportunity for existence.
    uncountable, usually
40. One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made.
    uncountable, usually
41. 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.
    uncountable, usually
42. 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, usually
43. The life insurance industry.
    uncountable, usually
44. A life assured under a life assurance policy (equivalent to the policy itself for a single life contract).
    countable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“I want my kids to live a good life.  He gave up on life.”

“My bloodleſſe bodie waxeth chill and colde, And with my blood my life ſlides through my wound, My ſoule begins to take her flight to hell, And ſummones all my ſences to depart: […]”

“The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.”

“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.”

“Many lives were lost during the war. Her quick thinking saved many dogs' lives.”

“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.”

“Life is meaningless and we are all going to die.”

“Man's life on this planet has been marked by continual conflict.”

“the eternal life of the soul”

“"[…]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.”

“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.”

“Most things in life, including life itself, seemed to have articulated sections, discrete and separate and straightforward.”

“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.”

“He struggled to balance his family life, social life and work life.”

“sex life”

“political 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.”

“She's my love, my life. Running the bakery is her life.”

““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.””

“Life was something you dominated if you were any good. Life yielded easily to intelligence and effort, or to what proportion could be mustered of both.”

“"Life is pain," his mother said. "Anybody that says different is selling something."”

“Even if the bill's life is brief, the member who introduced it can still campaign as its champion.”

“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.”

“This would require that reproductive cells do not exist early on but rather are produced during the organism's adult life from the gemules sent from the various organs.”

“Typically, an appointed judge is appointed for life.”

“As a general rule the judges of the administrative courts are appointed for life, i.e., they continue in their office till the completion of sixty-eight years in the Federal Administrative Court[.]”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The experts also agree that the bushmen only painted from life. This belief is borne out by the other Gorozamzi Hills cave paintings, which represent elephants, hippos, deer, and giraffe.”

“The photo book represented my promise to her—a new life—and she desperately clung to that promise.”

“Scoring 1000 points is rewarded with an extra life.”

“Spend the time killing things and there's a bonus for each hit - but only for fatalities notched up since the start of your current life.”

“Borda sent a hot liner to G. Kugler, who made a nifty pick-up, but threw wild at first, giving the batter a life.”

“But shortstop Tenney, on what should have been the game's last out, gave a First Team batter a life on first, when he let a ground ball slip between his legs.”

“I work in life.”

“He renewed two lives which had dropped.”

“Then one deep love doth supersede ⁠All other, when her ardent gaze ⁠Roves from the living brother’s face, And rests upon the Life indeed.”

“Basically, I'm looking for a fast (the fastest?) way of updating grids, where each cell has to look at an arbitrary number of its neighbors. I've seen some fast life-programs, but often they took advantage of particular quirks of the rules of Life.”

“Is there a known 3D totalistic or semi-totalistic automaton (Life is the latter sort - state at time t+1 depends on state at time t and count of neighbours) which exhibits the same sort of behaviour as Life (that is, a reasonable range of naturally-occuring^([sic]) still lives and short-period oscillators)?”

“Maybe the RolfLife algorithm could be of value to someone implementing life i.e. in the vertex shader of a (DirectX 9) graphics card, where few lines of code and no LUT are favoured.”

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