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12 sty 2024 · life. (n.) Old English life (dative lif) "animated corporeal existence; lifetime, period between birth and death; the history of an individual from birth to death, written account of a person's life; way of life (good or bad); condition of being a living thing, opposite of death; spiritual existence imparted by God, through Christ, to the ...
The earliest known use of the noun life is in the Old English period (pre-1150).
25 paź 2024 · The phenomenon of life can be approached in several ways: life as it is known and studied on planet Earth; life imaginable in principle; and life, by hypothesis, that might exist elsewhere in the universe (see extraterrestrial life). As far as is known, life exists only on Earth.
6 sty 2022 · The English word “life” has a Proto-Indo-European root, *leip-, meaning “to stick, adhere.” The word is thus connected to “continuance, perseverance,” and “to live” then literally means “to continue, remain.”
Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from matter that does not. It is defined descriptively by the capacity for homeostasis, organisation, metabolism, growth, adaptation, response to stimuli, and reproduction
25 paź 2024 · The origin of life is a result of a supernatural event—that is, one irretrievably beyond the descriptive powers of physics, chemistry, and other science. Life, particularly simple forms, spontaneously and readily arises from nonliving matter in short periods of time, today as in the past.
10 lis 2024 · life (usually uncountable, plural lives) (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.
