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# alive

«alive» in Mova's school dictionary: **living, not dead** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (alive)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Alive means living, not dead. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alive/#m1)

2) Alive means full of energy, activity or life. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alive/#m2)

3) Alive can mean still existing or working, like a hope or a tradition. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alive/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons pupils sort things into alive, dead and never alive; living things move, grow, breathe, feed, sense and reproduce. In stories a town «comes alive» at night and a character is happy to be alive. Phrases: come alive, keep alive, stay alive, alive and well, alive with (full of).

### examples

- Is the fish still alive? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alive/#x1)
- Plants are alive, but rocks are not. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alive/#x2)
- We were lucky to be alive after the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alive/#x3)
- The street comes alive at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alive/#x4)
- The pond was alive with frogs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alive/#x5)
- Water keeps plants alive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alive/#x6)
- The old tradition is still alive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alive/#x7)
- My great-grandma is still alive and well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alive/#x8)
- 'So you are alive after all! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alive/#x9)

### note

Used after a verb, not before a noun: «the fish is alive», but «a live fish» or «a living fish», not «an alive fish». Opposite: dead. Science trap: things like fire move and grow but are not alive; seeds look dead but are alive.

### In the corpora

- [A chatbot's friendly greeting is the kind of reply its training makes likely; it does not mean someone is alive inside it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/1-what-is-ai/7/)
- [Loose brushwork, holding the brush further from the bristles, often makes paintings look more alive.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes/13/)
- [In real life that is a hunt, not a friendship, and both animals are only doing what keeps them alive.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/4/)
- [The capybara is the biggest rodent alive and can weigh as much as a grown man.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/12/)
- [Some old tree stumps stay alive for years because their roots are joined to nearby trees, which keep them fed with sugar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «alive» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alive/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.