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Vie vs Debate - What's the difference?

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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

  • 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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    debate

    English

    Noun

  • (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)
  • , volume=189, issue=7, page=26, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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.}}
  • (uncountable) Discussion of opposing views.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Katie L. Burke
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= In the News , passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:
  • (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 .
  • Verb

    (debat)
  • (ambitransitive) To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena.
  • * Shakespeare
  • a wise council that did debate this business
  • * Bible, Proverbs xxv. 9
  • Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself.
  • * Tatler
  • He presents that great soul debating upon the subject of life and death with his intimate friends.
  • (obsolete) To fight.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
  • Well knew they both his person, sith of late / With him in bloudie armes they rashly did debate .
  • (obsolete) To engage in combat for; to strive for.
  • * Prescott
  • 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.
  • (lb) To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide
  • Derived terms

    * debater

    Anagrams

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