Tra từ live - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

▪ I. live 1 [live lives lived living] BrE [lɪv] NAmE [lɪv] verb
see also ↑live ²

IN A PLACE
1. intransitive + adv./prep. to have your home in a particular place
•to live in a house
• Where do you live?
• She needs to find somewhere to live.
•We used to live in London.
•Both her children still live at home.
• (BrE, informal)Where do these plates live (= where are they usually kept)?

BE ALIVE
2. intransitive to remain alive
• The doctors said he only had six months to live.
• Spiders can live for several days without food.
•~ to do sth She lived to see her first grandchild.
3. intransitive to be alive, especially at a particular time
• When did Handel live?
• He's the greatest player who ever lived.

TYPE OF LIFE
4. intransitive, transitive to spend your life in a particular way
• He lived in poverty most of his life.
•~ sth She lived a very peaceful life.
•They lived their lives to the full.
•+ noun She lived and died a single woman.

BE REMEMBERED
5. intransitive to continue to exist or be remembered
Syn: ↑remain
• This moment will live in our memory for many years to come.
• Her words have lived with me all my life.

HAVE EXCITEMENT
6. intransitive to have a full and exciting life
•I don't want to be stuck in an office all my life— I want to live!
Rem: or
more at be (living) on borrowed time at ↑borrow, be/live in clover at ↑clover, how the other half lives at ↑half _n., lead/live the life of Riley at ↑life, long live sb/sth at ↑long _adv., people (who live) in glass houses shouldn't throw stones at ↑people _n., be/live in each other's pockets at ↑pocket _n., live/sleep rough at ↑rough _adv.
Idioms: ↑live a lie ▪ ↑live and breathe something ▪ ↑live and let live ▪ ↑live by your wits ▪ ↑live hand to mouth ▪ ↑live in sin ▪ ↑live in the past ▪ ↑live it up ▪ ↑live off the fat of the land ▪ ↑live off the land ▪ ↑live to fight another day ▪ ↑you haven't lived ▪ ↑you live and learn
Derived: ↑live by doing something ▪ ↑live by something ▪ ↑live for somebody ▪ ↑live in ▪ ↑live off somebody ▪ ↑live off something ▪ ↑live on ▪ ↑live on something ▪ ↑live out ▪ ↑live out something ▪ ↑live something down ▪ ↑live through something ▪ ↑live together ▪ ↑live up to something ▪ ↑live with somebody ▪ ↑live with something
See also: ↑live with somebody
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Old English libban lifian Germanic Dutch leven German leben ↑life ↑leave

Thesaurus:
live verb
1. I (always used with an adverb or preposition)
•I live in a small house near the station.
formal inhabit • • occupy • • reside • |written people •
live/reside in/among/near sth
live in/inhabit/occupy/reside in a house
live in/inhabit/people the world
2. I
•Spiders can live for days without food.
survive • • come through (sth) • • make it • • pull through •
Opp: die
live/survive on (a diet of) sth
live/survive for a few days/many years, etc.
live/survive without food/money, etc.
live/survive/come/make it/pull through sth
3. I (not usually used in the progressive tenses)
•He's the greatest painter who ever lived.
exist • • be found •

Example Bank:
•All she wanted was to get married and live happily ever after.
•He lives in Cape Town.
•He was living quietly with his family.
•He's now living a life of luxury in Australia.
•He's still living at home.
•I absolutely could not live without my cell phone!
•I did want to live more fully.
•I shall remember this day for as long as I live.
•I still live with my mum.
•I'm not going to live here permanently.
•Many of the people live in poverty and misery.
•Most of the people live very well, with nice houses and plenty to eat.
•She disapproves of unmarried couples living together.
•She lived through two world wars.
•She lived to the age of 95.
•She lives quite near here.
•She tried to live vicariously through her children.
•She's lived at this same address for four years.
•The couple have lived apart for two years.
•They lived among the people of this remote island.
•They lived frugally off a diet of beans and lentils.
•They'll have enough money to live comfortably.
•Tonight she felt like living dangerously.
•We went to live in Canada when I was three.
•Who wants to live forever? I don't.
•Women live longer than men in general.
•You can live there quite cheaply.
•children living separately from their parents
•learning to live with disability
•living with Aids
•older people still living independently
•teaching children about the world we live in
•the need to live as harmoniously as possible with everyone else
•young couples looking for a place to live
•He's the greatest player who ever lived.
•I don't want to be stuck in an office all my life— I want to live!
•I live in an old farmhouse.
•She needs to find somewhere to live.
•Where do these plates live?
•to live (on) for decades/many years/all my life/the rest of my life

▪ II. live 2 [live lives lived living] adjective, adverb BrE [laɪv] NAmE [laɪv]
see also ↑live ¹
adjective usually before noun

NOT DEAD
1. living; not dead
•live animals
•the number of live births (= babies born alive)
• We saw a real live rattlesnake!

NOT RECORDED
2. (of a broadcast)sent out while the event is actually happening, not recorded first and broadcast later
•live coverage of the World Cup
3. (of a performance)given or made when people are watching, not recorded
• The club has live music most nights.
•a live recording made at Wembley Arena
•the band's new live album
• It was the first interview I'd done in front of a live audience (= with people watching).

ELECTRICITY
4. (of a wire or device)connected to a source of electrical power
•That terminal is live.

BULLETS/MATCHES
5. still able to explode or light; ready for use
•live ammunition

COALS
6. live coals are burning or are still hot and red

YOGURT
7. live ↑yogurt still contains the bacteria needed to turn milk into ↑yogurt

QUESTION/SUBJECT
8. of interest or importance at the present time
•Pollution is still very much a live issue.

INTERNET
9. (of an electronic link)functioning correctly, so that it is connected to another document or page on the Internet
•Here are some live links to other aviation-related web pages.

Word Origin:
mid 16th cent. ↑alive

Example Bank:
•I can watch the games live on TV.
•This programme comes to you live from the Albert Hall.
•In those days the broadcasts all went out live.
•Is the show live or recorded?
•Later we'll talk live with the former New York police commissioner.
•The CD was recorded live at a concert given last year.
•The band have never played this song live before.
•The game will be televised live this evening.
•The new website is expected to go live in October.
•The show was filmed live at the Arena.
•The show will air live on June 10.
•The trial was carried live on a Chicago radio station.
•This concert comes to you live from Carnegie Hall.
•We'll be reporting live from Beijing.
•Customs officials seized 400 live snakes packed in crates.
•I need to talk to a live person.
•The victim's pockets were full of live ammunition.
•the number of live births
Idioms: ↑go live ▪ ↑live wire

adverb
broadcast at the time of an actual event; played or recorded at an actual performance
•The show is going out live.