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Mort vs Vie - What's the difference?

mort | vie |

As a noun mort

is roach; a small fish.

As a verb vie is

to rival; to struggle for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something.

mort

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
  • A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • The sportsman then sounded a treble mort .
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
    • Derived terms
    * mort cloth * mort stone

    Etymology 2

    Compare Icelandic (margt), neuter of (margr), "many".

    Noun

  • A great quantity or number.
  • * Charles Dickens
    • There was a mort of merrymaking.

    Etymology 3

    Shortening of (mortal).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (internet, informal) A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
    • Antonyms
    * immort English clippings

    Etymology 4

    Uncertain.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A three-year-old salmon.

    • Etymology 5

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, archaic) A woman; a female.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.

    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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