Blood vs Life - What's the difference?
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A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
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A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. (See blood relative, blood relation, by blood.)
* (Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
A blood test or blood sample.
The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
* 1841 , Benjamin Parsons,
* 1901 , Levi Leslie Lamborn, American Carnation Culture , fourth edition, page 57:
* 1916 , John Gordon Dorrance, The Story of the Forest , page 44:
(label) The juice of anything, especially if red.
* Bible, (w) xiix. 11
(label) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) A lively, showy man; a rake.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (William Makepeace Thackeray) (1811-1863)
(member of a certain gang).
To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
To let blood (from); to bleed.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 121:
To initiate into warfare or a blood sport.
The state that follows birth, and precedes death; the state of being alive and living.
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, title= #(lb) A 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.
(lb) A period of time.
#The period during which one (a person, an animal, a plant, a star) is alive.
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#The span of time during which an object operates.
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#(lb) A life sentence; a term of imprisonment of a convict until his or her death.
(lb) Personal existence.
#(lb) The essence of the manifestation and the foundation of the being.
#*1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), , Ch.VI:
#*:"I realize as never before how cheap and valueless a thing is life'. '''Life''' seems a joke, a cruel, grim joke. You are a laughable incident or a terrifying one as you happen to be less powerful or more powerful than some other form of ' life which crosses your path; but as a rule you are of no moment whatsoever to anything but yourself. You are a comic little figure, hopping from the cradle to the grave. Yes, that is our trouble—we take ourselves too seriously; but Caprona should be a sure cure for that." She paused and laughed.
#(lb) The subjective and inner manifestation of the individual.
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#The world in general; existence.
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#A worthwhile existence.
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#Animation; spirit; vivacity.
#*(Henry Felton) (1679-1740)
#*:No notion of life and fire in fancy and in words.
#*(William Wordsworth) (1770-1850)
#*:That gives thy gestures grace and life .
#The most lively component or participant.
#*1970 , Mathuram Bhoothalingam, The finger on the lute: the story of Mahakavi Subramania Bharati, National Council of Educational Research and Training, p.87:
#*:"Don't I know that it is you who is the life of this house. Two delightful children!"
#*1998 , Monica F. Cohen, Professional domesticity in the Victorian novel: Women, work and home, Cambridge University Press, page 32:
#*:And he is the life of the party at the Musgroves for precisely this reason: the navy has made him into a great storyteller.
#Something which is inherently part of a person's existence, such as job, family, a loved one, etc.
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#(lb) Social life.
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#*:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
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#*(Conyers Middleton) (1683-1750)
#*:Writers of particular lives are apt to be prejudiced in favour of their subject.
(lb) One of the player's chances to play, lost when a mistake is made.
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(christian science) god.blood
English
(wikipedia blood)Alternative forms
* bloud (obsolete)Noun
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
- a friend of our own blood
- to share the blood of Saxon royalty
Anti-Bacchus, page 95:
- It is no tautology to call the blood of the grape red or purple, because the juice of that fruit was sometimes white and sometimes black or dark. The arterial blood of our bodies is red, but the venous is called "black blood."
- Disbudding is merely a species of pruning, and should be done as soon as the lateral buds begin to develop on the cane. It diverts the flow of the plant's blood from many buds into one or a few, thus increasing the size of the flower, [...]
- Look at a leaf. On it are many little raised lines which reach out to all parts of the leaf and back to the stem and twig. These are "veins," full of the tree's blood . It is white and looks very much like water; [...]
- He washedhis clothes in the blood of grapes.
- when you perceive his blood inclined to mirth
- Seest thou nothow giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
- It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood .
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* menstruationDerived terms
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* coagulation * sanguinary * sanguineVerb
(en verb)Statistics
* 1000 English basic words ----life
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(wikipedia life)Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}