Vie vs Debate - What's the difference?
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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.
(obsolete) Strife, discord.
An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision.
An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author=(Leo Hickman)
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, title= (uncountable) Discussion of opposing views.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (Frequently in French form débat) A type of literary composition, taking the form of a discussion or disputation, commonly found in the vernacular medieval poetry of many European countries, as well as in .
(ambitransitive) To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Proverbs xxv. 9
* Tatler
(obsolete) To fight.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
(obsolete) To engage in combat for; to strive for.
* Prescott
(lb) To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide
Vie is a related term of debate.
As verbs the difference between vie and debate
is that vie is to rival; to struggle for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something while debate is (ambitransitive) to participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena.As a noun debate is
(obsolete) strife, discord.vie
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)
Synonyms
* battle * compete * opposeAntonyms
* concede * reconcileAnagrams
* * ----debate
English
Noun
How algorithms rule the world, passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.}}
Katie L. Burke
In the News, passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:
Verb
(debat)- a wise council that did debate this business
- Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself.
- He presents that great soul debating upon the subject of life and death with his intimate friends.
- Well knew they both his person, sith of late / With him in bloudie armes they rashly did debate .
- Volunteers thronged to serve under his banner, and the cause of religion was debated with the same ardour in Spain as on the plains of Palestine.
