/līf/

noun: life
plural noun: lives
noun: one's life
plural noun: one's lifes

1. the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death.
   
2. the existence of an individual human being or animal.
   • a particular type or aspect of people's existence.
   • a biography.
   • either of the two states of a person's existence separated by death (as in Christianity and some other religious traditions).
   • any of a number of successive existences in which a soul is held to be reincarnated (as in Hinduism and some other religious traditions).
   • a chance to live after narrowly escaping death (with reference to the nine lives traditionally attributed to cats).
3. the period between the birth and death of a living thing, especially a human being.
   • the period during which something inanimate or abstract continues to exist, function, or be valid.
   • INFORMAL
     a sentence of imprisonment for life
4. vitality, vigor, or energy.
5. (in art) the depiction of a subject from a real model, rather than from an artist's imagination.

Origin: Old English līf, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lijf, German Leib ‘body’, also to live1.

/ˈärkəˌtek(t)/

noun: architect
plural noun: architects

1. a person who is qualified to design buildings and to plan and supervise their construction.
   • a person who is responsible for inventing or realizing a particular idea or project.
2. Computing
   • a person who designs hardware, software, or networking applications and services of a specified type for a business or other organization

verb: Computing
verb: architect
3rd person present: architects
past tense: architected
past participle: architected
gerund or present participle: architecting

design and configure (a program or system).

mid 16th century: from French architecte, from Italian architetto, via Latin from Greek arkhitektōn, from arkhi- ‘chief’ + tektōn ‘builder’.