life
Roget category 359
3. Words relating to matter› 3.3. Organic matter
›› 3.3.1. Vitality
#359.
Life
noun
life,
vitality,
viability —
animation —
vital spark,
vital flame,
soul,
spirit.
respiration,
wind —
breath of life,
breath of one's nostrils —
oxygen,
air.
[devices to sustain respiration]
respirator,
artificial respirator,
heart and lung machine,
iron lung —
medical devices
etc.
662.
lifeblood —
Archeus† —
existence
etc.
1.
vivification —
vital force —
vitalization —
revivification
etc.
163 —
Prometheus —
life to come
etc.
(destiny)
152.
[Science of life]
physiology,
biology —
animal ecology.
nourishment,
staff of life
etc.
(food)
298.
genetics,
heredity,
inheritance,
evolution,
natural selection,
reproduction
(production)
161.
microbe,
aerobe,
anaerobe,
facultative anaerobe,
obligate aerobe,
obligate anaerobe,
halophile [Micro.],
methanogen [Micro.],
archaebacteria [Micro.],
microaerophile [Micro.].
animal
etc.
366 —
vegetable
etc.
367.
artificial life,
robot,
robotics,
artificial intelligence.
[vital signs]
breathing,
breathing rate,
heartbeat,
pulse,
temperature.
preservation of life,
healing
(medicine)
662.
verb
be alive
etc.
adj. —
live,
breathe,
respire —
subsist
etc.
(exist)
1 —
walk the earth,
strut and fret one's hour upon the stage"
[Macbeth];
be spared.
see the light,
be born,
come into the world,
fetch breath,
draw breath,
fetch the breath of life,
draw the breath of life —
quicken —
revive —
come to life.
give birth to
etc.
(produce)
161 —
bring to life,
put into life,
vitalize —
vivify,
vivificate† —
reanimate
etc.
(restore)
660 —
keep alive,
keep body and soul together,
keep the wolf from the door —
support life.
hive nine lives like a cat.
adjective
living,
alive —
in life,
in the flesh,
in the land of the living —
on this side of the grave,
above ground,
breathing,
quick,
animated —
animative† —
lively
etc.
(active)
682 —
all alive and kicking —
tenacious of life —
full of life,
yeasty.
vital,
vitalic† —
vivifying,
vivified,
etc.
v. —
viable,
zoetic† —
Promethean.
adverb
vivendi causa [Lat.].
phrase
atqui vivere militare est [Lat.]
[Seneca];
non est vivere sed valere vita [Lat.]
[Marial].
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