verb

• (intransitive) To be alive; to have life.
  "He's not expected to live for more than a few months."
• (intransitive) To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
  "I live at 2a Acacia Avenue.  At that time I'd been living in a camper for about six months."
• (intransitive) To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
  "I washed your gravy boat. Where does it live?"
• (intransitive) To survive; to persevere; to continue.
  "When Lazarus left his charnel-cave, ⁠And home to Mary’s house return’d, […] ‘Where wert thou, brother, those four days?’ ⁠There lives no record of reply, ⁠Which telling what it is to die Had surely added praise to praise."

adj

• (only used attributively) Having life; that is alive.
  "The post office will not ship live animals."
• Operational; in actual use rather than in testing etc.
  "An object in the heap is live if its address is held in a root, or there is a pointer to it held in another live heap node."
• (engineering) Imparting power; having motion.
  "the live spindle of a lathe"
• (sports) Still in active play.
  "a live ball"