life
Webster Dictionary
figuratively: The potential or animating principle, also, the period of duration, of anything that is conceived of as resembling a natural organism in structure or functions; as, the life of a state, a machine, or a book; authority is the life of government
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blood
(ʌd)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the vital principle; life.
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ghost
(ʊst)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the principle of life; soul; spirit.
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avatar
(ˈæv əˌtɑr, ˌæv əˈtɑr)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
an embodiment or personification, as of a principle, attitude, or view of life.
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spirit
(ˈspɪr ɪt)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the animating principle of life, esp. of humans; vital essence.
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earth mother
(ˈɜrθ li)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the earth conceived of as the female principle of fertility and the source of all life.
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tao
(ʊ, taʊ)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
(sometimes l.c.) (in Taoism) the dynamic principle of life by which all things happen or exist.
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biotic
Webster Dictionary
relating to life; as, the biotic principle
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vitalism
(vitalism)
Princeton's WordNet
(philosophy) a doctrine that life is a vital principle distinct from physics and chemistry
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martyr
Webster Dictionary
hence, one who sacrifices his life, his station, or what is of great value to him, for the sake of principle, or to sustain a cause
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vitalism
(ˈvaɪt lˌɪz əm)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
Biol. a doctrine that attributes the viability of a living organism to a vital principle distinct from the physical and chemical processes of life.
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animism
Webster Dictionary
the doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body
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due process
(due process, due process of law)
Princeton's WordNet
(law) the administration of justice according to established rules and principles; based on the principle that a person cannot be deprived of life or liberty or property without appropriate legal procedures and safeguards
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due process of law
(due process, due process of law)
Princeton's WordNet
(law) the administration of justice according to established rules and principles; based on the principle that a person cannot be deprived of life or liberty or property without appropriate legal procedures and safeguards
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soul
(ʊl)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in humans, regarded as a distinct entity separate from the body; the spiritual part of humans as distinct from the physical.
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reality principle
(reality principle)
Princeton's WordNet
(psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the ego; the principle that as a child grows it becomes aware of the real environment and the need to accommodate to it
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pleasure-pain principle
(pleasure principle, pleasure-pain principle, pleasure-unpleasure principle)
Princeton's WordNet
(psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality
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pleasure principle
(pleasure principle, pleasure-pain principle, pleasure-unpleasure principle)
Princeton's WordNet
(psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality
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pleasure-unpleasure principle
(pleasure principle, pleasure-pain principle, pleasure-unpleasure principle)
Princeton's WordNet
(psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality
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vitality
Webster Dictionary
the quality or state of being vital; the principle of life; vital force; animation; as, the vitality of eggs or vegetable seeds; the vitality of an enterprise
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profligacy
Webster Dictionary
the quality of state of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice; dissoluteness
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extract
Webster Dictionary
a peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle
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life-saving
Webster Dictionary
that saves life, or is suited to save life, esp. from drowning; as, the life-saving service; a life-saving station
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azoic
Webster Dictionary
destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was no animal life on the globe; as, the azoic. rocks
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acceleration principle
(ækˌsɛl əˈreɪ ʃən)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the economic principle that an increase in the demand for a finished product will create a greater demand for capital goods. Also called accelerator principle.
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coulomb's law
(Coulomb's Law)
Princeton's WordNet
a fundamental principle of electrostatics; the force of attraction or repulsion between two charged particles is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the distance between them; principle also holds for magnetic poles
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worldly
Webster Dictionary
pertaining to this world or life, in contradistinction from the life to come; secular; temporal; devoted to this life and its enjoyments; bent on gain; as, worldly pleasures, affections, honor, lusts, men
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revivification
Webster Dictionary
renewal of life; restoration of life; the act of recalling, or the state of being recalled, to life
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test
Webster Dictionary
to put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try; as, to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument
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tontine
Webster Dictionary
an annuity, with the benefit of survivorship, or a loan raised on life annuities with the benefit of survivorship. Thus, an annuity is shared among a number, on the principle that the share of each, at his death, is enjoyed by the survivors, until at last the whole goes to the last survivor, or to the last two or three, according to the terms on which the money is advanced. Used also adjectively; as, tontine insurance
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