Defunct vs Alive - What's the difference?
defunct | alive |
Deceased, dead.
* Shakespeare
* Byron
No longer in use, inactive.
(computing) Specifically, of a program: that has terminated but is still shown in the list of processes because the parent process that created it is still running and has not yet reaped it. See also zombie, zombie process.
(business) No longer in business or service.
The dead person (referred to).
* 1817 September , in Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine , volume 1, page 617:
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.
As adjectives the difference between defunct and alive
is that defunct is deceased, dead while 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 verb defunct
is to make defunct.As a noun defunct
is the dead person (referred to).defunct
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- defunct organs
- The boar, defunct , lay tripped up, near.
Noun
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 . --.