Life vs Money - What's the difference?
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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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#*1916', (Ezra Meeker), ''The Busy '''Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker
#The span of time during which an object operates.
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#The period of time during which an object is recognizable.
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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.
#A biography.
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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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A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.
A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
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, title= A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
Wealth.
An item of value between two parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
A person who funds an operation.
(as a modifier) Of or pertaining to money ; monetary.
As a proper noun life
is (christian science) god.As a noun money is
a legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.life
English
(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.}}
Quotations
* (sense) 1994: Violet Quill , Robert Ferro: *: Most things in life , including life itself, seemed to have articulated sections, discrete and separate and straightforward.Synonyms
* (sense) existence, experience * (the world in general) timeAntonyms
* (the state that precedes death) death * (biology) coma * (philosophy) voidDerived terms
* all one's life's worth * artificial life * biological life * dog's life * get a life * get life * give life * have the time of one's life +* high life * lifeboat * life coach * life-buoy * life-force * life form * life's a bitch * life is like a box of chocolates * life's not all skittles and beer * life jacket * lifeblood * lifelike * lifeline * life line * life of the party * life plan * life-saver * lifestyle * lifetime * life vest * lifework * lose one's life * love life * meaning of life * quality of life * real life * set for life * shelf life * social life * this is the life * that's life * to save one's lifeExternal links
* (Biological life) * (Phenomenological life) * *Statistics
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English
(money)Noun
(wikipedia money)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}
Can China clean up fast enough?, passage=At the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country.}}
