Vie vs Vim - What's the difference?
vie | vim |
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.
Ready vitality and vigor.
* 1999 , , Stardust , p. 58 (2001 Perennial paperback edition)
As verbs the difference between vie and vim
is that vie is to rival; to struggle for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something while vim is .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
* * ----vim
English
Noun
(en noun)- But the youth of today were a pasty lot, with none of the get-up-and-go, none of the vigor and vim that he remembered from the days when he was young…