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Versus vs Rival - What's the difference?

versus | rival |

As a preposition versus

is (l); (l).

As a noun rival is

a competitor (person, team, company, etc) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor.

As an adjective rival is

having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.

As a verb rival is

to oppose or compete with.

versus

English

(wikipedia versus)

Conjunction

(English Conjunctions)
  • (Used to link two or more opposing or contrasting elements).

    • Synonyms

    * vs,

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • against, in opposition to.
    • It is the Packers versus the Steelers in the Super Bowl.
  • compared with, as opposed to.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=In polling by the Pew Research Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the two parties would cooperate more in the coming year, versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow more adversarial. }}
  • * 2005 , Robert E. Weiss, Modeling Longitudinal Data , Springer, ISBN 978-0-387-40271-0, page 104:
    • If, for example, we select random people entering a workout gym, versus if we pick random people entering a hospital, we will get very different samples.
  • Bringing a legal action against, as used in the title of a court case in which the first party indicates the plaintiff (or appellant or the like), and the second indicates the defendant (or respondent or the like).
    • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans.

    Synonyms

    * vs,

    Related terms

    * vertex * subvert * invert * convert * evert * verse English coordinating conjunctions ----

    rival

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
    • , volume=189, issue=2, page=27, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= The tao of tech , passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you
  • Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.
  • (obsolete) One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, / The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.

    Derived terms

    * rivalry * archrival

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.
    • rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions
  • * Macaulay
    • The strenuous conflicts and alternate victories of two rival confederacies of statesmen.

    Verb

  • To oppose or compete with.
    • to rival somebody in love
  • To be equal to or to surpass another.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].}}
  • To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.
  • * Dryden
    • to rival thunder in its rapid course

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