The span of time during which an object operates.
A life sentence; a period of imprisonment that lasts until the convict's death (or, sometimes, parole).
An opportunity for existence.
A worthwhile existence.
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.
The most lively component or participant.
A particular phase or period of existence.
Nature, reality, and the forms that exist in it.
The period of time during which an object is recognizable.
Animation; spirit; vivacity.
A biography.
One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made.
A chance for the batter (or batting team) to bat again, given as a result of an misplay by a member of the fielding team.
Social life.
Something which is inherently part of a person's existence, such as job, family, a loved one, etc.
A particular aspect of existence.
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.
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 period during which one (a person, an animal, a plant; a civilization, species; a star; etc) is alive.
Lifeforms, generally or collectively.
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).
One of a player's chances to play in various children's playground games, lost when a mistake is made, for example being struck by the ball in dodgeball.
The life insurance industry.
A life assured under a life assurance policy (equivalent to the policy itself for a single life contract).
Existence.
A living individual; the fact of a particular individual being alive. (Chiefly when indicating individuals were lost (died) or saved.)
To replace components whose operational lifetime has expired.
The combination of process and actuator.
Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
To set up; to install; to instate.
To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
To furnish or supply with plants.
To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
To place in the ground.