Lifeline vs Lifeblood - What's the difference?
lifeline | lifeblood |
A line to which a drowning or falling victim may cling to.
A means or route for transporting indispensable supplies.
A source of salvation in a crisis.
(engineering) System or structure of vital importance to a community.
(nautical) On the deck of a boat, a line to which one can attach oneself to stay aboard on rough seas
Blood which is needed for continued life; blood regarded as the seat of life.
* circa 1980 , George Spelvin, Petticoat Loose'', Act II, Scene 1, published in ''George Spelvin's theatre book , volume 3:
(figuratively) That which is required for continued existence or function.
:Gasoline is the lifeblood of the modern city.
* 2006 , James E. Kibler, Memory's Keep , page 55:
As nouns the difference between lifeline and lifeblood
is that lifeline is a line to which a drowning or falling victim may cling to while lifeblood is blood which is needed for continued life; blood regarded as the seat of life.lifeline
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(wikipedia lifeline)Alternative forms
* life-line * life lineNoun
(en noun)lifeblood
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Alternative forms
* life blood, life's bloodNoun
(en-noun)- You didn't come to me in time. And by the time you came to me that fool of a doctor had bled and leeched the lifeblood out of Timmy.
- The road brought invaders who left them hungry and dug up the dead. The road took living children away and made them dead to home. It was as if the roads were veins that bled off lifeblood but never pumped it back in.