Vie vs Endeavor - What's the difference?

Vie is a related term of endeavor.

In lang=en terms the difference between vie and endeavor

is that vie is to do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy while endeavor is to attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously.

As verbs the difference between vie and endeavor

is that vie is to rival; to struggle for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something while endeavor is (obsolete) to exert oneself.

As a noun endeavor is

a sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal.

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

* * ----

endeavor

English

(wikipedia endeavor)

Alternative forms

* (l) (UK)

Noun

(en noun)

A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal.

* 1640 , , part II, chapter 28:

And these three: 1. the law over them that have sovereign power; 2. their duty; 3. their profit: are one and the same thing contained in this sentence, Salus populi suprema lex ; by which must be understood, not the mere preservation of their lives, but generally their benefit and good. So that this is the general law for sovereigns: that they procure, to the uttermost of their endeavour , the good of the people.

* 1873 , , volume 2, page 184:

As we shall find it necessary, in our endeavours to bring electrical phenomena within the province of dynamics, to have our dynamical ideas in a state fit for direct application to physical questions we shall devote this chapter to an exposition of these dynamical ideas from a physical point of view.

Enterprise; assiduous or persistent activity.

* 1748 , David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral (London: Oxford University Press, 1973), § 9:

The like has been the endeavour of critics, logicians, and even politicians .

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To exert oneself.

* Alexander Pope:

And such were praised who but endeavoured well.

To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously.

* 1748 , David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral (London: Oxford University Press, 1973), § 2:

The other species of philosophers consider man in the light of a reasonable rather than an active being, and endeavour to form his understanding more than cultivate his manners.

(obsolete) To attempt (something).

* Ld. Chatham:

It is our duty to endeavour the recovery of these beneficial subjects.

* 1669 May 18, Sir Isaac Newton, Letter (to Francis Aston):

If you be affronted, it is better, in a foreign country, to pass it by in silence, and with a jest, though with some dishonour, than to endeavour revenge; for, in the first case, your credit's ne'er the worse when you return into England, or come into other company that have not heard of the quarrel.

To work with purpose.

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Synonyms

* strive