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How to pronounce live in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms unrecorded


a live television program.
brought to you live from Lincoln Center.
live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience.
Type Words
Synonyms be
Verb group go, last, survive, live on, endure, hold out, hold up
Derivation living


My grandfather lived until the end of war.
Type Words
Synonyms alive


a live volcano.
the volcano is very much alive.
Type Words
Synonyms alive
Derivation liveness


the happiest person alive.
the nerve is alive.
doctors are working hard to keep him alive.
burned alive.
a live canary.
Type Words
Synonyms bouncy, lively, resilient, springy


a lively tennis ball.
Type Words
Synonyms dwell, inhabit, populate
Type of be
Has types room, nest, shack, shack up, neighbour, people, bivouac, board, tenant, overpopulate, occupy, reside, domicile, domiciliate, lodge, live together, encamp, tent, neighbor, camp, camp out, cohabit, lodge in
Derivation liver, liveable, livable


People lived in Africa millions of years ago.
Type Words
Synonyms exist, subsist, survive
Has types drift, freewheel, breathe
Verb group go, hold out, hold up, live on, last, survive, endure


Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?.
Type Words
Synonyms endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live on, survive
Has types hold water, live out, stand up, perennate, hold up
Verb group be, exist, survive, subsist


The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents.
One crash victim died, the other lived.
Type Words
Synonyms hot


a live wire.
Type Words
Synonyms experience, know
Type of experience, go through, see
Has types taste, relive, live over


I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict.
The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare.
I lived through two divorces.
Type Words


the club members are a really live bunch.
Type Words


live ammunition.
a live bomb.
Type Words


live coals.
tossed a live cigarette out the window.
got a shock from a live wire.
live ore is unmined ore.
a live bomb.
a live ball is one in play.
Type Words


a live concert hall.
Type Words


live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread.
Type Words
Has types dissipate, bach, bachelor, board, buccaneer, bushwhack, cash out, eke out, live down, move, pig, pig it, swing, unlive, vegetate, wanton
Derivation liver, living


we had to live frugally after the war.
Type Words


a live issue.
still a live option.
Type Words


You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live.

Examples of live

live
Inside YouTube, that is the button they use when they want to run a live stream.
From the techcrunch.com
They are hoping that the elephant will give birth to a real-live woolly mammoth.
From the abcnews.go.com
Tap Room fries, billiards and live rock equals a guaranteed fun time in my book.
From the stltoday.com
It was when Brian was a toddler that Connie and Glenn decided to live healthier.
From the stltoday.com
Refugees have to live in the United States for five years before they can apply.
From the thenewstribune.com
Her husband, James Cowan, will watch their five children who still live at home.
From the thenewstribune.com
The new network went live last weekend in 38 metropolitan areas and 60 airports.
From the bloomberg.com
Chinchillas can live up to 20 years and are known for taking regular dust baths.
From the sacbee.com
The Montana-based site also hosts live interactive demonstrations of techniques.
From the sacbee.com
More examples
  • Actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing; "a live television program"; "brought to you live from Lincoln Center"; "live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience"
  • Not recorded; "the opera was broadcast live"
  • Populate: inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods"
  • Exerting force or containing energy; "live coals"; "tossed a live cigarette out the window"; "got a shock from a live wire"; "live ore is unmined ore"; "a live bomb"; "a live ball is one in play"
  • Lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style; "we had to live frugally after the war"
  • Alive(p): possessing life; "the happiest person alive"; "the nerve is alive"; "doctors are working hard to keep him alive"; "burned alive"; "a live canary"
  • Live!! is the first live album by the Japanese garage punk band Guitar Wolf. It was released in Japan in June 2000. The album is assembled from four different performances, including a show on October 31, 1999 at CBGBs. It also includes a MiniCD featuring a remix of "Jet Virus."
  • "Live Niguz", also known by its censored title "Live!!!" is a single by Onyx from Def Jam's The Show: The Soundtrack. Produced by all three members of Onyx, "Live!!!" only found minor success on the R&B and rap charts, becoming the group's first single not to reach the Billboard Hot 100. ...
  • ? Live is an double album by Neal Morse. It was recorded in the Summer of 2006 at the Columbia Club in Berlin, Germany. It contains songs from two of Neal Morse's previous albums, ? and One.