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As nouns the difference between life and nature

is that life is the state that follows birth, and precedes death; the state of being alive and living while nature is the natural world; consisting of all things unaffected by or predating human technology, production and design. e.g. the ecosystem, the natural environment, virgin ground, unmodified species, laws of nature.

As proper nouns the difference between life and nature

is that life is god while Nature is the sum of natural forces reified and considered as a sentient being, will, or principle.

As a verb nature is

to endow with natural qualities.

life

English

(wikipedia life)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The state that follows birth, and precedes death; the state of being alive and living.
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  • *{{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
  • , date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist) 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.}}
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  • , title= 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.}}
  • #(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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  • #*:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
  • #*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.
  • #*
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life'. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as ' life -like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}
  • #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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  • 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) time

    Antonyms

    * (the state that precedes death) death * (biology) coma * (philosophy) void

    Derived 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 life

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    nature

    English

    Alternative forms

    * natuer (obsolete)

    Noun

  • (lb) The natural world; consisting of all things unaffected by or predating human technology, production and design. e.g. the ecosystem, the natural environment, virgin ground, unmodified species, laws of nature.
  • * (1800-1859)
  • *:Nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.
  • *1891 , (Oscar Wilde), ''(The Decay of Lying)
  • *:Nature has good intentions, of course, but, as Aristotle once said, she cannot carry them out. When I look at a landscape I cannot help seeing all its defects.
  • The innate characteristics of a thing. What something will tend by its own constitution, to be or do. Distinct from what might be expected or intended.
  • *1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), , Ch.1:
  • *:Being by nature of a cheerful disposition, the symptom did not surprise his servant, late private of the same famous regiment, who was laying breakfast in an adjoining room.
  • *1869 , , :
  • *:Mark hardly knew whether to believe this or not. He already began to suspect that Roswell was something of a humbug, and though it was not in his nature to form a causeless dislike, he certainly did not feel disposed to like Roswell.
  • The summary of everything that has to do with biological, chemical and physical states and events in the physical universe.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:I oft admire / How Nature , wise and frugal, could commit / Such disproportions.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01, author=Robert M. Pringle, volume=100, issue=1, page=31
  • , magazine=(American Scientist) , title= How to Be Manipulative , passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}
  • Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from that which is artificial, or forced, or remote from actual experience.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
  • Kind, sort; character; quality.
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *:A dispute of this nature caused mischief.
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  • *:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
  • (lb) Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the natural life.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:my days of nature
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:Oppressed nature sleeps.
  • (lb) Natural affection or reverence.
  • *(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • *:Have we not seen / The murdering son ascend his parent's bed, / Through violated nature force his way?
  • Derived terms

    * animal nature * back to nature * bad nature * by nature * call of nature * defy the laws of nature * crime against nature * freak of nature * good nature * human nature * law of nature/laws of nature * let nature take its course * Mother Nature * nature morte * nature preserve * nature reserve * nature strip * nature study * nature worship * second nature (nature)

    Verb

    (natur)
  • (obsolete) To endow with natural qualities.
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