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Vive vs Vire - What's the difference?

vive | vire |

As an adjective vive

is lively; animated; forcible.

As a noun vire is

an arrow, having a rotary motion, formerly used with the crossbow.

As a verb vire is

to transfer a surplus from one account to cover a deficit in another, to make a virement.

vive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) lively; animated; forcible
    • (Francis Bacon)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    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!
    (Webster 1913) ----