Viral vs Virtue - What's the difference?
viral | virtue |
(virology) Of or relating to a biological virus.
(virology) Caused by a virus.
(computing) Of the nature of an informatic virus; able to spread copies of itself to other computers.
(advertising, and, marketing) Spread by word of mouth, with minimal intervention in order to create buzz and interest.
(marketing) A video, image or text spread by "word of mouth" on the internet or by e-mail for humorous, political or marketing purposes.
* 2002, Nik Lever, Flash Mx Games: ActionScript for Artists , Focal Press, page 411,
* 2003, Dave Chaffey, Total E-Mail Marketing , Elsevier, page 2,
* 2005, Russell Evans, Practical DV Filmmaking , Focal Press, page 289,
(obsolete) The inherent power of a god, or other supernatural being.
The inherent power or efficacy of something (now only in phrases).
* 2011 , "The autumn of the patriarchs", The Economist , 17 Feb 2011:
(uncountable) Accordance with moral principles; conformity of behaviour or thought with the strictures of morality; good moral conduct.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , XV.1:
A particular manifestation of moral excellence in a person; an admirable quality.
* 1766 , Laurence Sterne, Sermon XLIV:
Specifically, each of several qualities held to be particularly important, including the four cardinal virtues, the three theological virtues, or the seven virtues opposed to the seven deadly sins.
* 1813 , John Fleetwood, The Life of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ :
An inherently advantageous or excellent quality of something or someone; a favourable point, an advantage.
* 1719 , :
* 2011 , The Guardian , Letter, 14 Mar 2011
A creature embodying divine power, specifically one of the orders of heavenly beings, traditionally ranked above angels and below archangels.
* 1667 , John Milton, Paradise Lost , Book X:
(uncountable) Specifically, moral conduct in sexual behaviour, especially of women; chastity.
* 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice :
As nouns the difference between viral and virtue
is that viral is a video, image or text spread by "word of mouth" on the internet or by e-mail for humorous, political or marketing purposes while virtue is the inherent power of a god, or other supernatural being.As an adjective viral
is of or relating to a biological virus.viral
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Adjective
(-)- viral DNA
- viral infection
Derived terms
* go viral * viral marketingNoun
(en noun)- Using the Flash ActiveX control in this way allows you as a developer to create desktop characters, email virals and screensavers.
- [M]ost virals are not seen as profiling and data collection exercises, since that would kill the impulse of forwarding to a friend.
- Music company virals are becoming commonplace as costs of promos force labels to reconsider how to target more directly to consumers.
Anagrams
* * ----virtue
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(wikipedia virtue)Alternative forms
* vertue (archaic)Noun
- many Egyptians still worry that the Brotherhood, by virtue of discipline and experience, would hold an unfair advantage if elections were held too soon.
- There are a set of religious, or rather moral, writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world.
- Some men are modest, and seem to take pains to hide their virtues ; and, from a natural distance and reserve in their tempers, scarce suffer their good qualities to be known [...].
- The divine virtues of truth and equity are the only bands of friendship, the only supports of society.
- There were divers other plants, which I had no notion of or understanding about, that might, perhaps, have virtues of their own, which I could not find out.
- One virtue of the present coalition government's attack on access to education could be to reopen the questions raised so pertinently by Robinson in the 1960s [...].
- Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues , Powers; / For in possession such, not only of right, / I call ye, and declare ye now [...].
- though she did not suppose Lydia to be deliberately engaging in an elopement without the intention of marriage, she had no difficulty in believing that neither her virtue nor her understanding would preserve her from falling an easy prey.