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Vied vs Vired - What's the difference?

vied | vired |

As verbs the difference between vied and vired

is that vied is past tense of vie while vired is past tense of vire.

vied

English

Verb

(head)
  • (vie)

    • Anagrams

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    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

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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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