Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to life
Participle: lifed
Gerund: lifing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | life |
| you | life |
| he;she;it | lifes |
| we | life |
| you | life |
| they | life |
Perfect
| I | have lifed |
| you | have lifed |
| he;she;it | has lifed |
| we | have lifed |
| you | have lifed |
| they | have lifed |
Past
| I | lifed |
| you | lifed |
| he;she;it | lifed |
| we | lifed |
| you | lifed |
| they | lifed |
Pluperfect
| I | had lifed |
| you | had lifed |
| he;she;it | had lifed |
| we | had lifed |
| you | had lifed |
| they | had lifed |
Future
| I | will life |
| you | will life |
| he;she;it | will life |
| we | will life |
| you | will life |
| they | will life |
Future Perfect
| I | will have lifed |
| you | will have lifed |
| he;she;it | will have lifed |
| we | will have lifed |
| you | will have lifed |
| they | will have lifed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | life |
| you | life |
| he;she;it | life |
| we | life |
| you | life |
| they | life |
Perfect
| I | have lifed |
| you | have lifed |
| he;she;it | have lifed |
| we | have lifed |
| you | have lifed |
| they | have lifed |
Imperfect
| I | lifed |
| you | lifed |
| he;she;it | lifed |
| we | lifed |
| you | lifed |
| they | lifed |
Pluperfect
| I | had lifed |
| you | had lifed |
| he;she;it | had lifed |
| we | had lifed |
| you | had lifed |
| they | had lifed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would life |
| you | would life |
| he;she;it | would life |
| we | would life |
| you | would life |
| they | would life |
Perfect
| I | would have lifed |
| you | would have lifed |
| he;she;it | would have lifed |
| we | would have lifed |
| you | would have lifed |
| they | would have lifed |
Imperative
| you | life |
| we | Let's life |
| you | life |
Verbs conjugated like 'life'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'life'
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English lyf, from Old English līf, from Proto-West Germanic *līb, from Proto-Germanic *lībą (“life, body”), from *lībaną (“to remain, stay, be left”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick, glue”).
2. Cognate with Scots life, leif (“life”), Saterland Frisian Lieuw (“body”), West Frisian liif (“body”), Cimbrian laip (“body”), Dutch lijf (“body”) and leven (“life”), German Leib (“body; womb”) and Leben (“life”), Low German Lief (“body; life”), Luxembourgish Leif, Läif (“body”), Vilamovian łaowa (“life”), Yiddish לײַב (layb, “body”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish liv (“life; waist”), Faroese lív (“life”), Icelandic líf (“life”). Related to belive.
3. The sense "biography" is likely a semantic loan from Medieval Latin vīta (“biography; hagiography”). See: Wymysorys '
łaowa'.
Sample Sentences
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Now, the aim of the design is to extract more cycles from the component under study, at each new engine generation requirements are driving a reduction in the margin for the error, as parts cannot stand any drop in properties. Thus, the lifing procedures are refined by means of new models or additional specific testing for limiting features to increase the life of the components; […] [Ignacio Fernandez, ACCENT: Adaptive Control of Manufacturing Processes for a New Generation of Jet Engine Components, in 2012, D. Knörzer, J. Szodruch, Innovation for Sustainable Aviation in a Global Environment (page 302)]
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A decision was made as a matter of internal policy that all 'lifed' components on the two Royal aircraft would be removed at half-life and fitted to the two support aircraft, where the remaining life would be used prior to overhaul at the normal time. [2013, Chris Clark, From Hitler's U-Boats to Kruschev's Spyflights, page 180:]