Vie vs Node - What's the difference?
vie | node |
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.
A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
(astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from S to N and N to S. The respective symbols are .
(botany) A stem node.
(computer networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
(engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; -- called also knot.
(geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See Crunode, and Acnode.
(graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
(medicine) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
(physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
(rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a piece.
(technical) A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc.
The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
As a verb vie
is to rival; to struggle for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something.As an abbreviation node is
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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)