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alive | cauf |

As a 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 cauf is

a chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water or cauf can be (calf).

alive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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
    • to keep the fire alive'; to keep the affections ' alive .
  • Exhibiting the activity and motion of many living beings; swarming; thronged.
    • The Boyne, for a quarter of a mile, was alive with muskets and green boughs. -- .
  • Sprightly; lively; brisk.
  • Having susceptibility; easily impressed; having lively feelings, as opposed to apathy; sensitive.
    • Tremblingly alive to nature's laws. -- .
  • As intensifier, of all living.
    • 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

    * dead

    Derived terms

    * alive and kicking * aliveness * Christ alive * dead or alive * eat someone alive * keep hope alive * man alive * snakes alive

    Anagrams

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    cauf

    English

    Etymology 1

    Originally a misspelling of , of which (term) remains a homophone. (rfimage)

    Noun

    (cauves)
  • A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.
  • * 1926 : Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses, Reports , volume 2, unknown page (Executive Committee)
    • The live fish is now kept in the cauves until sold for consumption in the home-country or abroad.
    References
    * Glossographia; or, A Dictionary Interpreting the Hard Words of Whatsoever Language, Now Used in Our Refined English Tongue'', by (1662?; in 1670 Ed.)
    ''Cauf     , a little trunk or chest with holes in it, wherein Fishermen keep Fish alive in the water, ready for use. * “ †cauf]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989

    Etymology 2

    Phonetic respelling.

    Noun

    (cauves)
  • * 1845 : Charles Rogers, Tom Treddlehoyle’s Thowts, Joakes, an Smiles for Midsummer Day , pages 40–41
    • An estimate at traffick hez been made be sum foaks, at wor set ta tack noatis, an it appear’d, bit average a wun month, thear wor enter’d Pogmoor an Hickam, fifteen wheelbarras, nine turnap rowlers, eighteen cauves , six sither grinders, wun wattar barril, nine haulin-horses, two pol’d cahs, three pair a cuts, wun hearse, sixteen dogs, three sheep, fourteen coil-carts, thurty mules, twenty-five geese, an three pigs.
    References
    * Publications of the English Dialect Society, volume 52 (1886), page 26]
    CAUF, CAUVES. — Common pronunciation of Calf, Calves: as “I’d been to serve the cauves;” “She’s gotten a quee cauf[.” English terms with multiple etymologies ----