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Combat vs Vie - What's the difference?

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Combat is a related term of vie.


In lang=en terms the difference between combat and vie

is that combat is to fight with; to struggle for victory against while vie is to do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy.

As verbs the difference between combat and vie

is that combat is to fight with; to struggle for victory against while vie is to rival; to struggle for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something.

As a noun combat

is a battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.

combat

English

(wikipedia combat)

Noun

  • A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.
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  • *:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat : "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
  • , volume=100, issue=2, page=87, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , passage=Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat .}}

    Derived terms

    * combat pay

    Verb

  • To fight with; to struggle for victory against.
  • * Milton
  • To combat with a blind man I disdain.

    Anagrams

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    vie

    English

    Verb

  • To rival; to struggle for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something.
  • Her suitors were all vying for her attention.
  • * Addison
  • In a trading nation, the younger sons may be placed in such a way of life as to vie with the best of their family.
  • (archaic) To rival (something), etc.
  • * 1608 , William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra [http://www.rhymezone.com/r/gwic.cgi?Path=shakespeare/tragedies/antonyandcleopatra/v_ii//&Word=to+vie+strange+forms+with+fancy;+yet,+to+imagine#w]
  • But, if there be, or ever were, one such, / It's past the size of dreaming: nature wants stuff / To vie strange forms with fancy; yet, to imagine / An Antony, were nature's piece 'gainst fancy, / Condemning shadows quite.
  • To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy.
  • * Shakespeare
  • She hung about my neck; and kiss on kiss / She vied so fast.
  • * Milton
  • Nor was he set over us to vie wisdom with his Parliament, but to be guided by them.
  • * Herbert
  • And vying malice with my gentleness, / Pick quarrels with their only happiness.
  • To stake; to wager.
  • (Ben Jonson)
  • To stake a sum of money upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See revie.
  • Synonyms

    * battle * compete * oppose

    Antonyms

    * concede * reconcile

    Anagrams

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