Alive vs Alice - What's the difference?
alive | alice |
Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.
In a state of action; in force or operation; unextinguished; unexpired; existent
Exhibiting the activity and motion of many living beings; swarming; thronged.
Sprightly; lively; brisk.
Having susceptibility; easily impressed; having lively feelings, as opposed to apathy; sensitive.
As intensifier, of all living.
popular in England since the Middle Ages .
* 1380s-1390s , (Geoffrey Chaucer), :
* 1871 :
* 1968 (Kurt Vonnegut), Welcome to the Monkey House , Delacorte Press, page xiv:
(cryptography, physics) a placeholder name for the person or system that sends a message to another person or system conventionally known as Bob.
(Alice Springs), Australia.
* 2002 , Sylvia Lawson, Budgerigars, and Positions of Ignorance'', in ''How Simone de Beauvoir died in Australia: stories and essays ,
* 2003 , Janet Judy McIntyre-Mills, quoting Olive Veverbrants, Critical systemic praxis for social and environmental justice (page 27),
* 2004 , Larry Habegger, Travelers' Tales Australia: True Stories (page 7),
A city in North Dakota.
A city in Texas.
As an adjective alive
is having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.As a noun alice is
(military|us|initialism) (all-purpose lightweight individual carrying equipment).alive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- to keep the fire alive'; to keep the affections ' alive .
- The Boyne, for a quarter of a mile, was alive with muskets and green boughs. -- .
- Tremblingly alive to nature's laws. -- .
- Northumberland was the proudest man alive . --.
Usage notes
* As intensifier, used colloquially "man alive!", "sakes alive!". * Alive always follows the noun which it qualifies.Antonyms
* deadDerived terms
* alive and kicking * aliveness * Christ alive * dead or alive * eat someone alive * keep hope alive * man alive * snakes aliveAnagrams
*alice
English
Proper noun
(Alice and Bob) (Alice Springs) (en proper noun)- That Iankin clerk, and my gossib dame Alis , / And I my-self, in-to the feldes wente.
- "My name is Alice , but - "
- "It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?"
- "Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.
- "Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh, "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."
- She was heavenly to look at, and graceful, both in and out of water. She was a sculptress. She was christened 'Alice'', but she used to deny that she was really an ' Alice . I agreed. Everybody agreed. Sometime in a dream maybe I will find out what her real name was.
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- At that point in my second visit to the Alice', I'd been there only a day. they're ''doing'' Australia in two weeks, with a few days each for Sydney, the ' Alice and the Rock, Kakadu and Cairns.
- In 1892 my Chinese grandfather lived in Alice .
- "Don't waste yer time in The Alice , get out and see the country — that's what yer 'ere for."
