Engelsk navneord: life | |||
1. | life (om tilstand) a characteristic state or mode of living | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Social life. City life. Real life. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | being, beingness, existence | ||
Mere specifikke termer | ghetto | ||
2. | life (om erkendelse) the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | He could no longer cope with the complexities of life. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | living | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | experience | ||
3. | life (om tilstand) the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | He hoped for a new life in Australia. He wanted to live his own life without interference from others. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | being, beingness, existence | ||
4. | life (om tilstand) the condition of living or the state of being alive | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | While there's life there's hope. Life depends on many chemical and physical processes. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | aliveness, animation, living | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | being, beingness, existence | ||
Mere specifikke termer | endurance, eternal life, life eternal, skin, survival | ||
Kendetegner | alive, dead, live | ||
5. | life (om tid) the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death) | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The battery had a short life. He lived a long and happy life. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | life-time, lifespan, lifetime | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | period, period of time, time period | ||
Mere specifikke termer | afterlife, hereafter | ||
Omfatter disse specifikke termer | age, birth, death, demise, dying, eld, time of life | ||
6. | life (om tid) the period between birth and the present time | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | I have known him all his life. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | period, period of time, time period | ||
Omfatter disse specifikke termer | past | ||
7. | life (om tid) the period from the present until death | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | He appointed himself emperor for life. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | period, period of time, time period | ||
Mere specifikke termer | days, years | ||
8. | life (om person) a living person | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | His heroism saved a life. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | ||
9. | life (om egenskab) animation and energy in action or expression | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | It was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | liveliness, spirit, sprightliness | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | animation, brio, invigoration, spiritedness, vivification | ||
Mere specifikke termer | airiness, alacrity, breeziness, briskness, buoyancy, delicacy, ebullience, elan, energy, enthusiasm, esprit, exuberance, ginger, high-spiritedness, irrepressibility, jauntiness, muscularity, pep, peppiness, pertness, smartness, vigor, vigour, vim | ||
Kendetegner | lively | ||
10. | life living things collectively | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The oceans are teeming with life. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | animate thing, living thing | ||
Mere specifikke termer | wildlife | ||
11. | life (om fænomen) the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | There is no life on the moon. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | organic phenomenon | ||
Mere specifikke termer | aerobiosis, biology | ||
12. | life (om kommunikation) an account of the series of events making up a person's life | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | biography, life history, life story | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | account, chronicle, history, story | ||
Mere specifikke termer | autobiography, hagiography, profile | ||
Eksempler på forekomster af mere specifikke termer | Parallel Lives | ||
13. | life (om motiv) a motive for living | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Pottery was his life. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | motivation, motive, need | ||
14. | life (om tid) a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | He got life for killing the guard. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | life sentence | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | prison term, sentence, time | ||