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Vided vs Vired - What's the difference?

vided | vired |

As verbs the difference between vided and vired

is that vided is past tense of vide¹ while vired is past tense of vire.

vided

English

Verb

(head)
  • (vide)¹

    • Anagrams

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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

    * *

    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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    vired

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (vire)

    • vire

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An arrow, having a rotary motion, formerly used with the crossbow.
    • (Gower)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • to transfer a surplus from one account to cover a deficit in another, to make a virement.
  • * 1996 , Derek Glover & Sue Law, Managing Professional Development in Education :
    • For example, in 1993, only 8 per cent of the survey schools said that they were likely to vire funds if problems arose during the year.
  • * 2005 , House of Commons (United Kingdom), Prison Education Report :
    • Prison education budgets were placed in the hands of prison governors who could vire money to other areas of the prisons.
  • * 2012 , David Maclaren, "Changing the Civil Service", Managing Public Services :
    • Because we cannot vire money between budgets, we buy more machines than we need, but cannot pay anyone to run them!
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