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Roget-categorie 359

3. Words relating to matter
3.3. Organic matter
›› 3.3.1. Vitality

#359. Life

zelfstandig naamwoord

life, vitality, viabilityanimationvital spark, vital flame, soul, spirit.
respiration, windbreath of life, breath of one's nostrilsoxygen, air.
[devices to sustain respiration] respirator, artificial respirator, heart and lung machine, iron lungmedical devices etc. 662.
lifebloodArcheus existence etc. 1.
vivificationvital forcevitalizationrevivification etc. 163Prometheuslife to come etc. (destiny) 152.
[Science of life] physiology, biologyanimal ecology.
nourishment, staff of life etc. (food) 298.
genetics, heredity, inheritance, evolution, natural selection, reproduction (production) 161.
microbe, aerobe, anaerobe, facultative anaerobe, obligate aerobe, obligate anaerobe, halophile [Micro.], methanogen [Micro.], archaebacteria [Micro.], microaerophile [Micro.].
animal etc. 366vegetable etc. 367.
artificial life, robot, robotics, artificial intelligence.
[vital signs] breathing, breathing rate, heartbeat, pulse, temperature.
preservation of life, healing (medicine) 662.

werkwoord

be alive etc. adj. — live, breathe, respiresubsist etc. (exist) 1walk the earth, strut and fret one's hour upon the stage" [Macbeth]; be spared.
see the light, be born, come into the world, fetch breath, draw breath, fetch the breath of life, draw the breath of lifequickenrevivecome to life.
give birth to etc. (produce) 161bring to life, put into life, vitalizevivify, vivificatereanimate etc. (restore) 660keep alive, keep body and soul together, keep the wolf from the doorsupport life.
hive nine lives like a cat.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

living, alivein life, in the flesh, in the land of the livingon this side of the grave, above ground, breathing, quick, animatedanimativelively etc. (active) 682all alive and kickingtenacious of lifefull of life, yeasty.
vital, vitalicvivifying, vivified, etc. v. — viable, zoeticPromethean.

bijwoord

vivendi causa [Lat.].

uitdrukking

atqui vivere militare est [Lat.] [Seneca]; non est vivere sed valere vita [Lat.] [Marial].

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