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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
life
    n 1: a characteristic state or mode of living; "social life";
         "city life"; "real life"
    2: the experience of being alive; the course of human events and
       activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of
       life" [syn: life, living]
    3: the course of existence of an individual; the actions and
       events that occur in living; "he hoped for a new life in
       Australia"; "he wanted to live his own life without
       interference from others"
    4: the condition of living or the state of being alive; "while
       there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical
       and physical processes" [syn: animation, life, living,
       aliveness]
    5: the period during which something is functional (as between
       birth and death); "the battery had a short life"; "he lived a
       long and happy life" [syn: life, lifetime, life-time,
       lifespan]
    6: the period between birth and the present time; "I have known
       him all his life"
    7: the period from the present until death; "he appointed
       himself emperor for life"
    8: a living person; "his heroism saved a life"
    9: animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy
       play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it" [syn:
       liveliness, life, spirit, sprightliness]
    10: living things collectively; "the oceans are teeming with
        life"
    11: the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms
        from nonliving ones; "there is no life on the moon"
    12: an account of the series of events making up a person's life
        [syn: biography, life, life story, life history]
    13: a motive for living; "pottery was his life"
    14: a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives; "he got
        life for killing the guard" [syn: life sentence, life]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Life \Life\ (l[imac]f), n.; pl. Lives (l[imac]vz). [AS.
   l[imac]f; akin to D. lijf body, G. leib body, MHG. l[imac]p
   life, body, OHG. l[imac]b life, Icel. l[imac]f, life, body,
   Sw. lif, Dan. liv, and E. live, v. [root]119. See Live, and
   cf. Alive.]
   1. The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or
      germination, and ends with death; also, the time during
      which this state continues; that state of an animal or
      plant in which all or any of its organs are capable of
      performing all or any of their functions; -- used of all
      animal and vegetable organisms.
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   2. Of human beings: The union of the soul and body; also, the
      duration of their union; sometimes, the deathless quality
      or existence of the soul; as, man is a creature having an
      immortal life.
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            She shows a body rather than a life.  --Shak.
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   3. (Philos.) The potential principle, or force, by which the
      organs of animals and plants are started and continued in
      the performance of their several and cooperative
      functions; the vital force, whether regarded as physical
      or spiritual.
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   4. Figuratively: The potential or animating principle, also,
      the period of duration, of anything that is conceived of
      as resembling a natural organism in structure or
      functions; as, the life of a state, a machine, or a book;
      authority is the life of government.
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   5. A certain way or manner of living with respect to
      conditions, circumstances, character, conduct, occupation,
      etc.; hence, human affairs; also, lives, considered
      collectively, as a distinct class or type; as, low life; a
      good or evil life; the life of Indians, or of miners.
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            That which before us lies in daily life. --Milton.
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            By experience of life abroad in the world. --Ascham.
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            Lives of great men all remind us
            We can make our lives sublime.        --Longfellow.
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            'T is from high life high characters are drawn.
                                                  --Pope
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   6. Animation; spirit; vivacity; vigor; energy.
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            No notion of life and fire in fancy and in words.
                                                  --Felton.
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            That gives thy gestures grace and life.
                                                  --Wordsworth.
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   7. That which imparts or excites spirit or vigor; that upon
      which enjoyment or success depends; as, he was the life of
      the company, or of the enterprise.
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   8. The living or actual form, person, thing, or state; as, a
      picture or a description from, the life.
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   9. A person; a living being, usually a human being; as, many
      lives were sacrificed.
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   10. The system of animal nature; animals in general, or
       considered collectively.
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             Full nature swarms with life.        --Thomson.
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   11. An essential constituent of life, esp: the blood.
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             The words that I speak unto you . . . they are
             life.                                --John vi. 63.
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             The warm life came issuing through the wound.
                                                  --Pope
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   12. A history of the acts and events of a life; a biography;
       as, Johnson wrote the life of Milton.
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   13. Enjoyment in the right use of the powers; especially, a
       spiritual existence; happiness in the favor of God;
       heavenly felicity.
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   14. Something dear to one as one's existence; a darling; --
       used as a term of endearment.
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   Note: Life forms the first part of many compounds, for the
         most part of obvious meaning; as, life-giving,
         life-sustaining, etc.
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   Life annuity, an annuity payable during one's life.

   Life arrow, Life rocket, Life shot, an arrow, rocket,
      or shot, for carrying an attached line to a vessel in
      distress in order to save life.

   Life assurance. See Life insurance, below.

   Life buoy. See Buoy.

   Life car, a water-tight boat or box, traveling on a line
      from a wrecked vessel to the shore. In it person are
      hauled through the waves and surf.

   Life drop, a drop of vital blood. --Byron.

   Life estate (Law), an estate which is held during the term
      of some certain person's life, but does not pass by
      inheritance.

   Life everlasting (Bot.), a plant with white or yellow
      persistent scales about the heads of the flowers, as
      Antennaria, and Gnaphalium; cudweed.

   Life of an execution (Law), the period when an execution is
      in force, or before it expires.

   Life guard. (Mil.) See under Guard.

   Life insurance, the act or system of insuring against
      death; a contract by which the insurer undertakes, in
      consideration of the payment of a premium (usually at
      stated periods), to pay a stipulated sum in the event of
      the death of the insured or of a third person in whose
      life the insured has an interest.

   Life interest, an estate or interest which lasts during
      one's life, or the life of another person, but does not
      pass by inheritance.

   Life land (Law), land held by lease for the term of a life
      or lives.

   Life line.
       (a) (Naut.) A line along any part of a vessel for the
           security of sailors.
       (b) A line attached to a life boat, or to any life saving
           apparatus, to be grasped by a person in the water.

   Life rate, rate of premium for insuring a life.

   Life rent, the rent of a life estate; rent or property to
      which one is entitled during one's life.

   Life school, a school for artists in which they model,
      paint, or draw from living models.

   Lifetable, a table showing the probability of life at
      different ages.

   To lose one's life, to die.

   To seek the life of, to seek to kill.

   To the life, so as closely to resemble the living person or
      the subject; as, the portrait was drawn to the life.
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3. V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016)
LIFE
       Laboratory for International Fuzzy Engineering [research] (MITI)
       

4. V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016)
LIFE
       Logistics Interface For manufacturing Environment
       

5. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003)
life
 n.

    1. A cellular-automata game invented by John Horton Conway and first
    introduced publicly by Martin Gardner (Scientific American, October 1970);
    the game's popularity had to wait a few years for computers on which it
    could reasonably be played, as it's no fun to simulate the cells by hand.
    Many hackers pass through a stage of fascination with it, and hackers at
    various places contributed heavily to the mathematical analysis of this
    game (most notably Bill Gosper at MIT, who even implemented life in TECO
    !). When a hacker mentions ?life?, he is much more likely to mean this
    game than the magazine, the breakfast cereal, or the human state of
    existence. Many web resources are available starting from the Open
    Directory page of Life. The Life Lexicon is a good indicator of what makes
    the game so fascinating.

    [glider]

    A glider, possibly the best known of the quasi-organic phenomena in the
    Game of Life.

    2. The opposite of Usenet. As in ?Get a life!?


6. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)
life

   1.  Conway's Game of Life.

   2.  The opposite of Usenet/the Internet/video
   games/whatever the speaker considers a waste of time.  As in
   "Get a life!"

   3.  Logic of Inheritance, Functions and Equations (LIFE)
   An object-oriented, functional, constraint-based language by
   Hassan Ait-Kacy  et al of MCC, Austin TX, 1987.
   LIFE integrates ideas from LOGIN and LeFun.

   See also Wild_LIFE.

   ["Is There a Meaning to LIFE?", H. Ait-Kacy et al, Intl Conf
   on Logic Prog, 1991].

   (2015-05-04)


7. Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Life
   generally of physical life (Gen. 2:7; Luke 16:25, etc.); also
   used figuratively (1) for immortality (Heb. 7:16); (2) conduct
   or manner of life (Rom. 6:4); (3) spiritual life or salvation
   (John 3:16, 17, 18, 36); (4) eternal life (Matt. 19:16, 17; John
   3:15); of God and Christ as the absolute source and cause of all
   life (John 1:4; 5:26, 39; 11:25; 12:50).
   

8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
LIFE. The aggregate of the animal functions which resist death. Bichat. 
     2. The state of animated beings, while they possess the power of 
feeling and motion. It commences in contemplation of law generally as soon 
as the infant is able to stir in the mother's womb; 1 Bl. Com. 129; 3 Inst. 
50; Wood's Inst. 11; and ceases at death. Lawyers and legislators are not, 
however, the best physiologists, and it may be justly suspected that in fact 
life commences before the mother can perceive any motion of the foetus. 1 
Beck's Med. Jur. 291. 
     3. For many purposes, however, life is considered as begun from the 
moment of conception in ventre sa mere. Vide Foetus. But in order to acquire 
and transfer civil rights the child must be born alive. Whether a child is 
born alive, is to be ascertained from certain signs which are always 
attendant upon life. The fact of the child's crying is the most certain. 
There may be a certain motion in a new born infant which may last even for 
hours, and yet there may not be complete life. It seems that in order to 
commence life the child must be born with the ability to breathe, and must 
actually have breathed. 1 Briand, Med. Leg. 1ere partie, c. 6, art. 1. 
     4. Life is presumed to continue at least till one hundred years. 9 
Mart. Lo. R. 257 See Death; Survivorship. 
     5. Life is considered by the law of the utmost importance, and its most 
anxious care is to protect it. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 202-3. 



9. The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906)
LIFE, n.  A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.  We live
in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed. 
The question, "Is life worth living?" has been much discussed;
particularly by those who think it is not, many of whom have written
at great length in support of their view and by careful observance of
the laws of health enjoyed for long terms of years the honors of
successful controversy.

    "Life's not worth living, and that's the truth,"
    Carelessly caroled the golden youth.
    In manhood still he maintained that view
    And held it more strongly the older he grew.
    When kicked by a jackass at eighty-three,
    "Go fetch me a surgeon at once!" cried he.
                                                             Han Soper


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