Life

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The state of organisms preceding their death, characterized by biological processes such as metabolism and reproduction and distinguishing them from inanimate objects; the state of being alive and living.

   “I want my kids to live a good life.  He gave up on life.”

2. isim The status possessed by any of a number of entities, including animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and sometimes viruses, which have the properties of replication and metabolism.
3. isim The animating principle or force that keeps an inorganic thing or concept metaphorically alive (dynamic, relevant, etc) and makes it a "living document", "living constitution", etc.

   “The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.”

4. isim Lifeforms, generally or collectively.

   “It's life, but not as we know it. She discovered plant life on the planet. The rover discovered signs of life on the alien world.”

5. isim A living being; the fact of a particular individual being alive. (Chiefly when indicating individuals were lost (died) or saved.)

   “Many lives were lost during the war. Her quick thinking saved many dogs' lives.”

6. isim Existence.

   “Life is meaningless and we are all going to die.”

7. isim A worthwhile existence.

   “He gets up early in the morning, works all day long — even on weekends — and hardly sees his family. That's no life!  His life was ruined by drugs.”

8. isim A particular aspect of existence.

   “He struggled to balance his family life, social life and work life.”

9. isim Social life.

   “Get a life.”

10. isim Something which is inherently part of a person's existence, such as job, family, a loved one, etc.

    “She's my love, my life. Running the bakery is her life.”

11. isim The period during which one (a person, an animal, a plant; a civilization, species; a star; etc) is alive.

    ““My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.””

12. isim The span of time during which an object operates.

    “This light bulb is designed to have a life of 2,000 hours.”

13. isim The period of time during which an object is recognizable.

    “The life of this milk carton may be thousands of years in this landfill.”

14. isim A particular phase or period of existence.

    “This would require that reproductive cells do not exist early on but rather are produced during the organism's adult life from the gemules sent from the various organs.”

15. isim A period extending from a when a (positive or negative) office, punishment, etc is conferred on someone until that person dies (or, sometimes, reaches retirement age).

    “Typically, an appointed judge is appointed for life.”

16. isim A life sentence; a period of imprisonment that lasts until the convict's death (or, sometimes, parole).
17. isim Animation; spirit; vivacity.

    “No notion of life and fire in fancy and in words.”

18. isim The most lively component or participant.

    “"Don't I know that it is you who is the life of this house. Two delightful children!"”

19. isim A biography.

    “His life of the founder is finished, except for the title.”

20. isim Nature, reality, and the forms that exist in it.

    “The experts also agree that the bushmen only painted from life. This belief is borne out by the other Gorozamzi Hills cave paintings, which represent elephants, hippos, deer, and giraffe.”

21. fiil To replace components whose operational lifetime has expired.

    “A decision was made as a matter of internal policy that all 'lifed' components on the two Royal aircraft would be removed at half-life and fitted to the two support aircraft, where the remaining life would be used prior to overhaul at the normal time.”

22. ünlem Synonym of God's life (an oath).
23. özel isim God.

    “Then one deep love doth supersede ⁠All other, when her ardent gaze ⁠Roves from the living brother’s face, And rests upon the Life indeed.”

24. özel isim Conway's Game of Life.

    “Basically, I'm looking for a fast (the fastest?) way of updating grids, where each cell has to look at an arbitrary number of its neighbors. I've seen some fast life-programs, but often they took advantage of particular quirks of the rules of Life.”

25. özel isim A surname.