liver
//ˈlɪvə//
Forms
- Plural
- livers
- Comparative
- more liver
- Superlative
- most liver
Definitions
1.A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.
- Steve Jobs is a famous liver transplant recipient.
2.This organ, as taken from animals used as food.
- I'd like some goose liver pate.
- "I should think you've rocked the boat enough already by refusing to eat liver."
- You could fry up some chicken livers for a tasty treat., Nah, I don't like chicken liver.
3.Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
- Try if life be worth the liver's care.
- One, John Powle, a Liver on Sasquehanna River.
- There is no liver in the country so practical.
4.A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
1.comparative form of live: more live
- Seeing things on a big screen somehow makes them seem liver.
2.Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).
- His friend Rothwell, who had the use of the best Laveracks for breeding purposes, wrote him that one of his puppies was liver and white.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4677
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English lyvere, lyver, from Old English lifer (“liver”), from Proto-West Germanic *libru, from Proto-Germanic *librō, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to smear, smudge, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to be slimy, be sticky, glide”).