Dispute vs Vie - What's the difference?
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An argument or disagreement, a failure to agree.
Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate.
* Milton
Contest; struggle; quarrel.
To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.
To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss.
To oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of.
* Bancroft
To strive or contend about; to contest.
* Prescott
(obsolete) To struggle against; to resist.
* Shakespeare
To rival; to struggle for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something.
* Addison
(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]
To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
* Herbert
To stake; to wager.
To stake a sum of money upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See revie.
Vie is a synonym of dispute.
In intransitive terms the difference between dispute and vie
is that dispute is to contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another while vie is to rival; to struggle for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something.In transitive terms the difference between dispute and vie
is that dispute is to make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss while vie is to do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy.As a noun dispute
is an argument or disagreement, a failure to agree.dispute
English
(wikipedia dispute)Noun
(en noun)- Addicted more / To contemplation and profound dispute .
- (Defoe)
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(disput)- Some residents disputed the proposal, saying it was based more on emotion than fact.
- to dispute assertions or arguments
- to seize goods under the disputed authority of writs of assistance
- to dispute the possession of the ground with the Spaniards
- Dispute it [grief] like a man.
Derived terms
* industrial disputeExternal links
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English
Verb
- Her suitors were all vying for her attention.
- 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.
- 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.
- She hung about my neck; and kiss on kiss / She vied so fast.
- Nor was he set over us to vie wisdom with his Parliament, but to be guided by them.
- And vying malice with my gentleness, / Pick quarrels with their only happiness.
- (Ben Jonson)