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Vied vs Vide - What's the difference?

vied | vide |

Vide is a anagram of vied.



As verbs the difference between vied and vide

is that vied is past tense of vie while vide is divide separate into parts, cleave asunder.

vied

English

Verb

(head)
  • (vie)

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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

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    vide

    English

    Etymology 1

    form of divide by aphesis.“ vide, v. ¹]” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989 (dead)

    Verb

  • (US, black English) divide

    • Verb

    (plural imperative verb;'' ''no conjugation )
  • (Parliamentary jargon) Divide!

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .“ ?vide, v.''²'' imp.'']” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989] (dead)OED: [www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/vide ''vide''], [www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/v ''v(.)

    Alternative forms

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    Verb

    (head) (singular imperative verb; plural videte )
  • See; consult; refer to!
  • * 1968 , report of the royal commission on Pilotage'', part 2, ''Study of Canadian pilotage: Pacific coast and Churchill , page 353:
    • (For comments, vide page 151).

    Usage notes

    Grammatically, this is the singular form, used to address one person. It is sometimes used invariantly to address more than one person, but a plural form also exists for this, videte .

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