📖 L — The English dictionary · page 25

litre — Everyday, meaning 1: A litre is a unit for measuring liquids and the space inside things (volume).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A litre has 1000 millilitres.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A litre is also an amount of something that fills that much: a litre of milk.↗ Example: The tank holds 40 litres.↗ · Milk costs 1 dollar a litre.↗ · She drinks 2 litres of water a day.↗ · How many millilitres in 3 litres?↗ · A litre has 1000 millilitres.↗ · This jug holds half a litre of juice.↗ · The bath held about 150 litres of water.↗ · Petrol costs more per litre this year.↗ · Measure the water in litres with a measuring jug.↗

litter — Everyday, meaning 1: Litter is rubbish like paper, cans and wrappers left lying on the ground in a public place.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A litter is a group of baby animals born to one mother at the same time.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Cat litter is the material in a tray that a cat uses as a toilet.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To litter is to drop rubbish on the ground, or to be spread untidily over a place.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A litter is a bed or chair carried on poles by people, used in the past to carry someone.↗ Example: Please don't drop litter in the park.↗ · Our class went litter picking on the beach.↗ · The dog had a litter of six puppies.↗ · Put your wrapper in the litter bin.↗ · Clean the cat's litter tray every day.↗ · Toys littered the bedroom floor.↗ · In the meantime the Princess Cabbage-Stalk had reached the palace, travelling in a litter.↗ · Behold, it is the litter of Solomon; threescore mighty men are about it, of the mighty men of Israel.↗ (Writings SNG.3.7, JPS 1917)↗

little — Everyday, meaning 1: Little means small in size: a little house.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Little means young: my little brother.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «A little» means a small amount, some: a little milk.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Little» without «a» means not much, almost none: little time.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: As an adverb, a little means slightly: a little tired.↗ Example: First, a little revision of what we learned before …↗ · A little box holds 4 crayons.↗ · My little sister is three.↗ · Can I have a little more juice?↗ · There is little water left in the bottle.↗ · I am a little tired after the race.↗ · Little by little the snowman melted.↗ · The three little pigs built three houses.↗ · "I can!" said the little Rabbit.↗ · And our father said: Go again, buy us a little food.↗ (Torah GEN.44.25, JPS 1917)↗ · and the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl; (Torah LEV.11.17, JPS 1917)↗ · the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl; (Torah DEU.14.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.↗ (Writings PRO.16.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, (Writings JOB.10.20, JPS 1917)↗ · They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.↗ (Writings JOB.21.11, JPS 1917)↗

liturgy — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The set words, prayers and songs used in a religious service.↗

liv — Everyday, meaning 1: A short form of «living», as in «liv rm» for living room in house adverts or notes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Liv: a girl's name, short for Olivia or a Scandinavian name meaning «life».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK, informal) A short form sometimes used for Liverpool, especially in sports scores and lists.↗ Example: Liv is my best friend at school.↗ · The house advert said «3 bed, large liv rm».↗ · Liv scored the winning goal.↗ · Liv and her brother walked the dog.↗ · The score read «Liv 2 Ars 1».↗ · My cousin Olivia likes to be called Liv.↗ · Ask Liv if she wants to come to the park.↗ · And Enosh lived ninety years, and begot Kenan.↗ (Torah GEN.5.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And Kenan lived seventy years, and begot Mahalalel.↗ (Torah GEN.5.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.↗ (Torah GEN.11.14, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou openest Thy hand, and satisfiest every living thing with favour.↗ (Writings PSA.145.16, JPS 1917)↗ · I shall walk before the LORD in the lands of the living.↗ (Writings PSA.116.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Wherefore doth a living man complain, a strong man because of his sins?↗ (Writings LAM.3.39, JPS 1917)↗

live — Everyday, meaning 1: To live is to be alive.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To live somewhere is to have your home there.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To live a certain way is to spend your life like that: live happily.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Live (adjective) means alive, not dead: live animals.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Live means happening now, not recorded: a live show.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: A live wire carries electricity and is dangerous.↗ Example: 4 people live in the house.↗ · 120 fish live in the pond.↗ · They live 3 km from the school.↗ · How many animals live on the farm?↗ · My grandma lives in Canada.↗ · Penguins live in cold places.↗ · Plants need water and light to live.↗ · We watched the match live on TV.↗ · Never touch a live electric wire.↗ · And they lived happily ever after.↗ · And they said: 'Thou hast saved our lives.↗ (Torah GEN.47.25, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live.↗ (Torah EXO.22.18, JPS 1917)↗ · And Abraham said unto God: 'Oh that Ishmael might live before Thee!'↗ (Torah GEN.17.18, JPS 1917)↗ · If a man die, may he live again?↗ (Writings JOB.14.14, JPS 1917)↗ · Then said Daniel unto the king: 'O king, live for ever!↗ (Writings DAN.6.22, JPS 1917)↗ · Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, wax mighty in power?↗ (Writings JOB.21.7, JPS 1917)↗

livelihood — Everyday, meaning 1: A livelihood is the way a person earns money to pay for food and a home.↗ Example: A fisherman earns his livelihood from the sea.↗ · The fiddler lost his livelihood when he lost his fiddle.↗ · Many farmers depend on the land for a livelihood.↗

livelong — Everyday, meaning 1: Livelong means whole or entire, used with a time: the livelong day is the whole day.↗ Example: He worked the livelong day.↗ · She sat by the fire the livelong night.↗ · The boy walked the livelong day.↗

lively — Everyday, meaning 1: Lively means full of energy, fun and activity.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A lively place, party or discussion is busy, exciting and noisy.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Lively colours are bright and strong.↗ Example: The puppy was lively and jumped all around.↗ · We had a lively debate about school uniforms.↗ · The market is lively on Saturdays.↗ · The band played lively music.↗ · Look lively — the bus is leaving!↗ · Her lively painting was full of reds and yellows.↗ · They were young and lively, but poor.↗ · And the midwives said unto Pharaoh: 'Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwife come unto them.'↗ (Torah EXO.1.19, JPS 1917)↗

liver — Everyday, meaning 1: The liver is a large organ in your body, under your ribs on the right, that cleans the blood, stores energy and helps digest food.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Liver is the liver of an animal eaten as food.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A liver (rare) is a person who lives in a certain way: «a clean liver».↗ Example: The liver is under your right ribs.↗ · Your liver cleans your blood.↗ · The liver makes bile to help digest fat.↗ · Grandpa likes liver and onions for dinner.↗ · The liver is the biggest organ inside the body.↗ · Too much alcohol can damage the liver.↗ · We dissected a sheep's liver in science.↗ · The liver stores energy from food.↗ · But the fat, and the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver of the sin-offering, he made smoke upon the altar; as the LORD commanded Moses.↗ (Torah LEV.9.10, JPS 1917)↗ · and the fat of the ox, and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver.↗ (Torah LEV.9.19, JPS 1917)↗ · and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the loins, and the lobe above the liver, which he shall take away by the kidneys.↗ (Torah LEV.3.10, JPS 1917)↗ · Till an arrow strike through his liver; as a bird hasteneth to the snare — and knoweth not that it is at the cost of his life.↗ (Writings PRO.7.23, JPS 1917)↗ · For the king of Babylon standeth at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shaketh the arrows to and fro, he inquireth of the teraphim, he looketh in the liver.↗ (Prophets EZK.21.26, JPS 1917)↗ · Mine eyes do fail with tears, mine inwards burn, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the breach of the daughter of my people; because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the broad places of the city.↗ (Writings LAM.2.11, JPS 1917)↗

livery — Everyday, meaning 1: A special uniform worn by servants of a great house or by members of a company or guild in the past.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The colours and design of a company's vehicles: «the airline's livery».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (livery stable / livery yard) A place where horses are kept and fed for their owners, or hired out, for payment.↗ Example: The footman wore a smart livery with gold buttons.↗ · Two footmen in livery stood at the door.↗ · The trains have a new red and white livery.↗ · The Fish-Footman was in livery, though he looked like a fish.↗ · Grandad keeps his horse at a livery yard.↗ · The servants' livery showed which family they worked for.↗ · He was dressed in court livery.↗

livestock — Everyday, meaning 1: Animals kept on a farm for food, milk, wool or work, such as cows, sheep, pigs, goats and chickens.↗ Example: The farmer raises livestock and grows wheat.↗ · Livestock need water every day in hot weather.↗ · Cows, sheep and pigs are livestock.↗ · The livestock were moved to higher ground before the flood.↗ · We saw prize livestock at the country show.↗ · A farm has 12 sheep and 8 cows, so it has 20 head of livestock.↗ · Presumably, the anatomy of slaughtered livestock would have been fairly familiar to many writers and readers of the time, while blessedly few indeed would have had first-hand knowledge of human innards.]↗ Like what did He make them?↗ (A city) [strife].↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

liveth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «liveth» means «lives», a form of «live».↗ e.g. To live is to be alive.↗ Example: Every moving thing that liveth shall be for food for you; as the green herb have I given you all.↗ (Torah GEN.9.3, JPS 1917) · Hereby ye shall be proved, as Pharaoh liveth, ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.↗ (Torah GEN.42.15, JPS 1917) · Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be bound, that your words may be proved, whether there be truth in you; or else, as Pharaoh liveth, surely ye are spies.'↗ (Torah GEN.42.16, JPS 1917)

livid — Everyday, meaning 1: Very, very angry, so angry you can hardly keep calm.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (of skin) Dark blue-grey or purple, like the colour of a bad bruise.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal, old) Pale or ashen in the face, from shock or anger.↗ Example: Mum was livid when she saw mud all over the new carpet.↗ · The coach was absolutely livid about the late kick-off.↗ · Dad went livid when he heard someone had scratched the car.↗ · She was livid with her brother for reading her diary.↗ · A livid bruise spread across his knee after the fall.↗ · The teacher looked livid, so the whole class went silent.↗ · I was livid at myself for forgetting my lunch again.↗ · The old story says his face turned livid with fear.↗ · When the King, who was still at table and laughing at the good trick he had played his creditor, heard him again reclaiming his money, he became livid with rage.↗

lizard — Everyday, meaning 1: A lizard is a reptile with scaly skin, four short legs and a long tail, such as a gecko or iguana.↗ Example: A lizard was sunbathing on the warm rock.↗ · The gecko is a lizard that can climb walls.↗ · The lizard dropped its tail and ran away.↗ · Lizards are reptiles with scaly skin.↗ · My cousin has a pet bearded dragon, which is a kind of lizard.↗ · Wash your hands after holding a lizard.↗ · He looked like a giant lizard with legs and arms.↗ · and the gecko, and the land-crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand-lizard, and the chameleon.↗ (Torah LEV.11.30, JPS 1917)↗ · And these are they which are unclean unto you among the swarming things that swarm upon the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the great lizard after its kinds, (Torah LEV.11.29, JPS 1917)↗

llama — Everyday, meaning 1: A llama is a South American animal like a small camel without a hump, with a long neck and thick woolly coat, kept for carrying loads and for its wool.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Buddhism) A different word, lama (one l), means a Buddhist teacher, like the Dalai Lama.↗ Example: Llamas carried our bags up the mountain path in Peru.↗ · A llama spat at the farmer when he got too close.↗ · Llamas are related to camels.↗ · The Incas used llamas as pack animals.↗ · Some farms in Britain keep llamas to protect sheep from foxes.↗ · An alpaca is smaller and fluffier than a llama.↗ · We went llama trekking on our holiday.↗ · An enormous cobra which had crept up the stem of a tall palm tree threw itself on to a little llama that was grazing at the foot.↗