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Meaning of "life form" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LIFE FORM

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LIFE FORM

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Life form is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LIFE FORM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

List of life forms

A life form or lifeform is an entity or being that is living or alive. This is a list of articles that relate to physical, hypothetical, alleged, religious, or fictional life forms. In process philosophy, objects in the world or universe are layered or tiered in complexity. Living things are difficult to define, but life forms can be considered to be the most complex entities in the arena or environment in which they exist. As in process philosophy, this article brings together in a holistic manner life forms from the diverse human intuitions found in experiences that include the ethical, religious, philosophical, scientific, and aesthetic.

Definition of life form in the English dictionary

The first definition of life form in the dictionary is the characteristic overall form and structure of a mature organism on the basis of which it can be classified. Other definition of life form is any living creature. Life form is also an alien.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LIFE FORM

life assurance
life belt
life buoy
life class
life coach
life cycle
life drawing
life estate
life expectancy
life force
Life Guards
life history
life imprisonment
life instinct
life insurance
life interest
life jacket
life lesson
life mask
life member

WORDS THAT END LIKE LIFE FORM

application form
art form
base form
booking form
claim form
combining form
consent form
crystal form
dress form
entry form
first form
form
free form
order form
proposal form
requisition form
second form
sixth form
tax form
third form
variant form

Synonyms and antonyms of life form in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «life form» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LIFE FORM

Find out the translation of life form to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of life form from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «life form» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

生命形式
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

forma de vida
570 millions of speakers

English

life form
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जीवन फार्म
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

شكل من أشكال الحياة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

форма жизни
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

forma de vida
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জীবন ধরন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

forme de vie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bentuk hidup
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Lebensform
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

生命体
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

생활 양식
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wangun urip
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hình thức cuộc sống
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வாழ்க்கை வடிவம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जीवन स्वरूप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yaşam formu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

forma di vita
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

forma życia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

форма життя
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

formă de viață
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μορφή ζωής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vorm van lewe
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

livsform
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

livsform
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of life form

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LIFE FORM»

The term «life form» is regularly used and occupies the 74.015 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LIFE FORM» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about life form

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2 QUOTES WITH «LIFE FORM»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word life form.
1
Jonathan Frakes
I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.
2
Anne McCaffrey
People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LIFE FORM»

Discover the use of life form in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to life form and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Life's Form: Late Aristotelian Conceptions of the Soul
Des Chene considers the work of scholastic writers such as Suárez and the Coimbrans, who provided thorough and sometimes profound studies of Aristotle's definitions of the soul and of life.Life's Form is not restricted only to questions ...
Dennis Des Chene, 2000
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Life Form
A government secret gone awry threatens a New Hampshire town, luring a high school teacher into a deadly trap and infecting the entire town. Original.
Keith Wilson, 1992
3
Alpine Plant Life: Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain ...
Alpine growth forms Growth form is a "plan", life form is the result of the interplay between the plan and the environment (Rauh 1978). Life form may differ from growth form. The environment can shape the growth form tree into the life form ...
Christian Körner, 2003
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Understanding Luigi Pirandello
12 Although Tilgher had been reviewing Pirandellian works with great acumen for a half-dozen years, the 1 922 piece on Henry IV was the first to articulate the life/form formula that would be applied to Pirandellian drama for decades to come .
Fiora A. Bassanese, 1997
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Self-consciousness
A practical life-form is included in the infinite ends that are its elements as the form of their generality: an action manifests an infinite end only if it manifests the practical life-form of which it is a part. In contrast to subjective rankings, a practical ...
Sebastian Rödl, 2007
6
Geology and Plant Life: The Effects of Landforms and Rock ...
Life-form, while primarily under the control of climate, can be conditioned by geoedaphic factors. The extreme case of life-form response — on serpentine substrates — is expressed as a shift in life-form spectra. Whittaker (1975) notes that this ...
Arthur R. Kruckeberg, 2004
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Life Forms and Meaning Structure
It follows that every investigation, which aims at symbol construction, needs to operate within the sphere of the actual life form. Yet, it will have to find these phenomena in the next lowsr life form , although not in order to demonstrate that they ...
Alfred Schutz, 2013
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Between Necessity and Probability: Searching for the ...
Life form. Term most commonly used to depict variations around one type of life, e.g.. a bacterium species is another life form than an algae which is another life form than a fly, which in turn is another life form than a human). Sometimes 'life ...
Radu Popa, 2004
9
Anthropologica
The small life-form, ddb "maguey," stands apart. Table 5 Numbers (Percentages) of Alternative Life-Form Assignment Mixtepec Zapotec plant life-forms do not require definition in terms of utilitarian factors. However, it is necessary to expand  ...
10
Difficulties of Ethical Life
A life-form is here understood as the imprint (Gepra ̈ge) of the individual by means of dwelling in a context of life, residence, and character (Charakter) in one . Life-form is what in Greek is called ethos. In a life- form the belongingness and ...
Shannon Sullivan, Dennis J. Schmidt, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LIFE FORM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term life form is used in the context of the following news items.
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How 'Trainwreck' turned LeBron James into a comedian and Bill …
Before: A stunning alien life form who came to earth to play offbeat characters in art house movies. After: A basic-looking broad comedian. «Washington Post, Jul 15»
2
The Fall Review - Survival of the Fittest (PS4) - PlayStation LifeStyle
The suits' carbon-based life form occupant, Colonel Josephs, is in a critical condition, leaving the suits' AI in control of its functions with a prime ... «PlayStation LifeStyle, Jul 15»
3
OPINION: POINT: Ugly bad | The Sierra Vista Herald
In fact, war is like surgery. Do you “negotiate” with an aggressive cancer in the interest of seeing it as just another life form worthy of existence? «Sierra Vista Herald, Jul 15»
4
MOVIE REVIEW: 'Jurassic' is out of this 'World'
For approximately 150 million years, dinosaurs roamed the planet earth as the dominant life form. Twenty-two years ago, Steven Spielberg ... «Bucks Local News, Jul 15»
5
People Who Wakeup During Appraisal? HR Insight From Cicada …
Interestingly, the female cicadas are 'noiseless' and 'calm' a very rare phenomena seen among female gender of any life form in general. «The Hans India, Jul 15»
6
Greenness: The World's Only Sustainable Life Form
We know that Greenness is the world only sustainable life form. The basics of sustainable life include nutrient completeness and density, ... «Live Trading News, Jul 15»
7
Blame game: nation of offended people who won't take responsibility
Sadly, the second life form is much rarer these days. It is the near-extinct and awkwardly named Responsibility Assumer. If there's any sort of ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
8
Combining art, community and spirituality into one Confluence
They are made of transparent, sheer fabrics, each representing a different “being” that can be any life form, such as a ladybug, a tree, or a ... «Edmonton Journal, Jul 15»
9
MOVIE REVIEW: 'Jurassic' is out of this 'World' - Bucks Local News
For approximately 150 million years, dinosaurs roamed the planet earth as the dominant life form. Twenty-two years ago, Steven Spielberg ... «Bucks Local News, Jul 15»
10
Save the fish
Our inhumanity toward this life form worries me greatly. I think I'll go to Red Lobster tonight and have them throw a live lobster in a pot of boiling ... «Belleville News-Democrat, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Life form [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/life-form>. Apr 2024 ».
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