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Living vs Abiotic - What's the difference?

living | abiotic |

As adjectives the difference between living and abiotic

is that living is having life while abiotic is nonliving, inanimate, characterised by the absence of life; of inorganic matter .

As a verb living

is .

As a noun living

is (uncountable) the state of being alive.

living

English

(wikipedia living)

Verb

(head)
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Having life.
  • * :
  • It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
  • In use or existing.
  • Hunanese is a living language.
  • Of everyday life.
  • These living conditions are deplorable.
  • True to life.
  • This is the living image of Fidel Castro.
  • He almost beat the living daylights out of me.

    Antonyms

    * dead * nonliving

    Derived terms

    * living death * living end * livingly * living room * living thing * living will

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The state of being alive.
  • Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood
  • What do you do for a living ?
  • A style of life.
  • plain living
  • (canon law) A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income. The holder of the position receives its revenue for the performance of stipulated duties.
  • Derived terms

    * make a living

    Statistics

    * English intensifiers

    abiotic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Nonliving, inanimate, characterised by the absence of life; of inorganic matter.
  • Tending to inhibit or destroy life; antibiotic; incompatible with life.
  • Derived terms

    * abiotically

    References