means of living

  • 1living — adj Living, alive, animate, animated, vital mean endowed with or manifesting life. In their primary senses where life means that character or quality which is peculiar to things that are capable of growth, reproduction, and, often, motion and… …

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  • 2Living wage — is a term used to describe the minimum hourly wage necessary for a person to achieve some specific standard of living. In developed countries such as the United Kingdom or Switzerland, this standard generally means that a person working forty… …

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  • 3Living Dead — redirects here. For other uses, see Undead. The original poster for Night of the Living Dead. Living Dead is a blanket term for various films, series, and other forms of media that all originated from, and includes, the seminal 1968 horror film… …

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  • 4Living fossil — is an informal term for any living species (or clade) of organism which appears to be the same as a species otherwise only known from fossils and has no close living relatives. These species have all survived major extinction events, and… …

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  • 5Living systems theory — is a general theory about the existence of all living systems, their structure, interaction, behavior and development. This work is created by James Grier Miller, which was intended to formalize the concept of life . According to Miller s… …

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  • 6Living sculpture — is any type of sculpture that is created with living, growing, or recently harvested plants. It can be functional and/or ornamental. There are several different types of living sculpture techniques, including topiary (prune plants or train them… …

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  • 7Living systems — are open self organizing systems that have the special characteristics of life and interact with their environment. This takes place by means of information and material energy exchanges. Living systems can be as simple as a single cell or as… …

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  • 8living — [liv′iŋ] adj. 1. alive; having life; not dead 2. full of vigor; in active operation or use [a living institution] 3. of persons alive [within living memory] 4. in its natural state or place, or having its natural force, motion, etc. [hewn from… …

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  • 9Living — Liv ing, n. 1. The state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life; existence. Health and living. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Manner of life; as, riotous living; penurious living; earnest living. A vicious living. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 3. Means …

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  • 10Living tree doctrine — Living tree redirects here. For the biological sense of the living tree, see Tree In Canadian law, the living tree doctrine is a doctrine of constitutional interpretation that says that a constitution is organic and must be read in a broad and… …

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