Meaning of liver | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.
   countable, uncountable
2. Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
   uncommon
3. A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions
4. This organ, as taken from animals used as food.
   countable, uncountable
5. Someone who is alive: one of the living.
   uncommon
6. This organ, as taken from animals used as food
7. A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
   countable, uncountable
8. Someone who lives in a particular place; an inhabitant, a dweller.
   uncommon
9. A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver
10. Any of various chemical compounds—particularly sulfides—thought to resemble livers in color.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
11. Any of various chemical compounds—particularly sulfides—thought to resemble livers in color
12. Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray)

Equivalents

Examples

“Steve Jobs is a famous liver transplant recipient.”

“I'd like some goose liver pate.”

“You could fry up some chicken livers for a tasty treat. — Nah, I don't like chicken liver.”

“"I should think you've rocked the boat enough already by refusing to eat liver."”

“He gave his horse some liver of antimony.”

“Ephori of Sparta, hearing a dissolute liver propose a very beneficial advise unto the people, commaunded him to hold his peace, and desired an honest man to assume the invention of it unto himselfe and to propound it.”

“a wicked liver may be reclaimed, and prove an honest man[…].”

“Try if life be worth the liver's care.”

“[…] a stately speech; / Such as grave Livers do in Scotland use, / Religious men, who give to God and Man their dues.”

“A great lover of the faith, a great defender of the faith, a great lover of life, great liver of life, great defender of life. And yet he plotted and planned over fifty murders, and carried each of one them out—if only on paper, and if only for our pleasure.”

“When as the wandring Scots and Picthts King Marius had subdude, He gave the Liuers dwellings.”

“Thou king of heaven, which […] Dost see the secret of each livers heart.”

“They must instantly have been detected by the present Livers that were upon the place.”

“One, John Powle, a Liver on Sasquehanna River.”

“There is no liver in the country so practical.”

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