English words for 'Alternative form of life-source.'
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noun
- a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere
- a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
- anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
- Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
- One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
- A citizen or national of another sovereign state.
- A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
- (sometimes derogatory) A mischievous or suspicious foreigner.
adj
- not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something
- being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world
- Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.
- Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
- Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature.
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noun
adj
noun
- Lifeforms, generally or collectively.
- (countable) A living being; the fact of a particular individual being alive. (Chiefly when indicating individuals were lost (died) or saved.)
- The span of time during which an object operates.
- (uncountable, insurance) The life insurance industry.
- A particular phase or period of existence.
- The animating principle or force that keeps an inorganic thing or concept metaphorically alive (dynamic, relevant, etc) and makes it a "living document", "living constitution", etc.
- The period during which one (a person, an animal, a plant; a civilization, species; a star; etc) is alive.
- (informal) Social life.
- (colloquial) A life sentence; a period of imprisonment that lasts until the convict's death (or, sometimes, parole).
- The most lively component or participant.
- (uncountable) The state of organisms preceding their death, characterized by biological processes such as metabolism and reproduction and distinguishing them from inanimate objects; the state of being alive and living.
- An opportunity for existence.
- (countable) A life assured under a life assurance policy (equivalent to the policy itself for a single life contract).
- A period extending from a when a (positive or negative) office, punishment, etc is conferred on someone until that person dies (or, sometimes, reaches retirement age).
- A worthwhile existence.
- Animation; spirit; vivacity.
- (baseball, softball, cricket) A chance for the batter (or batting team) to bat again, given as a result of a misplay by a member of the fielding team.
- Something which is inherently part of a person's existence, such as job, family, a loved one, etc.
- A biography.
- Existence.
- A particular aspect of existence.
- (biology) The 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.
- (video games) One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made.
- Nature, reality, and the forms that exist in it.
- The period of time during which an object is recognizable.
- One of a player's chances to play in various children's playground games, lost when a mistake is made, for example being struck by the ball in dodgeball.
- animation and energy in action or expression
- a characteristic state or mode of living
- a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives
- the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)
- the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
- the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living
- a living person
- living things collectively
- the condition of living or the state of being alive
- the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones
- a motive for living
- an account of the series of events making up a person's life
- the period from the present until death
- the period between birth and the present time
verb
adj
noun
adj
- Containing life; living.
- Invigorating or life-giving.
- Relating to the recording of life events.
- Necessary to continued existence.
- Very important.
- Relating to or characteristic of life.
- Necessary to the continuation of life; being the seat of life; being that on which life depends.
- Lively, having vitality
- Capable of living; in a state to live; viable.
- urgently needed; absolutely necessary
- performing an essential function in the living body
- full of spirit; full of life
- manifesting or characteristic of life
adj
- pertaining to biology or to life and living things
- (of a parent or child) related by blood; genetically related
- Of or relating to biology.
- (nonstandard, proscribed, non-native speakers' English) Organic (grown without agrochemicals).
- Relating to anatomy; anatomic, anatomical.
- Related by consanguinity, especially as to parents and children.
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noun
- A mythological creature (usually humanoid and undead) said to feed on the blood or life energy of the living.
- (colloquial, usually humorous) A person with habits traditionally ascribed to (literal) vampires, such as heliophobia, being a night owl, having pale skin, and so on.
- (colloquial, disrespectful) A person with the medical condition porphyria cutanea tarda, colloquially known as vampirism, with effects such as photosensitivity and brownish-red stained teeth.
- (US naval jargon) Synonym of anti-ship missile (ASM), particularly an incoming hostile one.
- A blood-sucking bat; vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus)
- (figurative, derogatory) A person who drains one's time, energy, money, etc.
- (US, slang) A medical technician who works with patients' blood; especially, a phlebotomist.
- (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living
verb
noun
noun
- the position that the meaning of life should be sought in the future
- an artistic movement in Italy around 1910 that tried to express the energy and values of the machine age
- (Judaism) The Jewish expectation of the messiah in the future.
- The study and prediction of possible futures.
- (art) An early 20th century avant-garde art movement focused on speed, the mechanical, and the modern, which took a deeply antagonistic attitude to traditional artistic conventions.
- (Christianity) Eschatological interpretations associating some Biblical prophecies with future events yet to be fulfilled, including the Second Coming.
noun
- a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere
- a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
- anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
- Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
- One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
- A citizen or national of another sovereign state.
- A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
- (sometimes derogatory) A mischievous or suspicious foreigner.
adj
- not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something
- being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world
- Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.
- Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
- Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature.
verb
noun
adj
noun
- Lifeforms, generally or collectively.
- (countable) A living being; the fact of a particular individual being alive. (Chiefly when indicating individuals were lost (died) or saved.)
- The span of time during which an object operates.
- (uncountable, insurance) The life insurance industry.
- A particular phase or period of existence.
- The animating principle or force that keeps an inorganic thing or concept metaphorically alive (dynamic, relevant, etc) and makes it a "living document", "living constitution", etc.
- The period during which one (a person, an animal, a plant; a civilization, species; a star; etc) is alive.
- (informal) Social life.
- (colloquial) A life sentence; a period of imprisonment that lasts until the convict's death (or, sometimes, parole).
- The most lively component or participant.
- (uncountable) The state of organisms preceding their death, characterized by biological processes such as metabolism and reproduction and distinguishing them from inanimate objects; the state of being alive and living.
- An opportunity for existence.
- (countable) A life assured under a life assurance policy (equivalent to the policy itself for a single life contract).
- A period extending from a when a (positive or negative) office, punishment, etc is conferred on someone until that person dies (or, sometimes, reaches retirement age).
- A worthwhile existence.
- Animation; spirit; vivacity.
- (baseball, softball, cricket) A chance for the batter (or batting team) to bat again, given as a result of a misplay by a member of the fielding team.
- Something which is inherently part of a person's existence, such as job, family, a loved one, etc.
- A biography.
- Existence.
- A particular aspect of existence.
- (biology) The 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.
- (video games) One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made.
- Nature, reality, and the forms that exist in it.
- The period of time during which an object is recognizable.
- One of a player's chances to play in various children's playground games, lost when a mistake is made, for example being struck by the ball in dodgeball.
- animation and energy in action or expression
- a characteristic state or mode of living
- a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives
- the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)
- the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
- the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living
- a living person
- living things collectively
- the condition of living or the state of being alive
- the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones
- a motive for living
- an account of the series of events making up a person's life
- the period from the present until death
- the period between birth and the present time
verb
noun
- A mythological creature (usually humanoid and undead) said to feed on the blood or life energy of the living.
- (colloquial, usually humorous) A person with habits traditionally ascribed to (literal) vampires, such as heliophobia, being a night owl, having pale skin, and so on.
- (colloquial, disrespectful) A person with the medical condition porphyria cutanea tarda, colloquially known as vampirism, with effects such as photosensitivity and brownish-red stained teeth.
- (US naval jargon) Synonym of anti-ship missile (ASM), particularly an incoming hostile one.
- A blood-sucking bat; vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus)
- (figurative, derogatory) A person who drains one's time, energy, money, etc.
- (US, slang) A medical technician who works with patients' blood; especially, a phlebotomist.
- (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living
verb
noun
noun
- the position that the meaning of life should be sought in the future
- an artistic movement in Italy around 1910 that tried to express the energy and values of the machine age
- (Judaism) The Jewish expectation of the messiah in the future.
- The study and prediction of possible futures.
- (art) An early 20th century avant-garde art movement focused on speed, the mechanical, and the modern, which took a deeply antagonistic attitude to traditional artistic conventions.
- (Christianity) Eschatological interpretations associating some Biblical prophecies with future events yet to be fulfilled, including the Second Coming.
adj
noun
adj
- Containing life; living.
- Invigorating or life-giving.
- Relating to the recording of life events.
- Necessary to continued existence.
- Very important.
- Relating to or characteristic of life.
- Necessary to the continuation of life; being the seat of life; being that on which life depends.
- Lively, having vitality
- Capable of living; in a state to live; viable.
- urgently needed; absolutely necessary
- performing an essential function in the living body
- full of spirit; full of life
- manifesting or characteristic of life
adj
- pertaining to biology or to life and living things
- (of a parent or child) related by blood; genetically related
- Of or relating to biology.
- (nonstandard, proscribed, non-native speakers' English) Organic (grown without agrochemicals).
- Relating to anatomy; anatomic, anatomical.
- Related by consanguinity, especially as to parents and children.