different between enterprising vs vie

English

Adjective

enterprising (comparative more enterprising, superlative most enterprising)

1. Displaying bravery and daring in attempting some task.
2. Very able and ingenious in business dealings.

Translations

Verb

enterprising

1. present participle of enterprise

Noun

enterprising (plural enterprisings)

1. The undertaking of an enterprise; purposeful activity; doings.

Anagrams

• preinserting

English

Etymology

Aphetic form of envy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Verb

vie (third-person singular simple present vies, present participle vying, simple past and past participle vied)

1. (intransitive) To fight for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something.

   • It is the tradition of a trading nation […] , that the younger sons […] may be placed in such a way of life as […] to vie with the best of their family.

2. (transitive, archaic) To rival (something), etc.
   • 1608, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra [1]

     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.

3. (transitive) To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy.
   • 1633, George Herbert, The Sacrifice

     And vying malice with my gentleness, / Pick quarrels with their only happiness.

4. To stake; to wager.

   • Out, thou camelion harlot! now thine eyes Vie tears with the hyæna

   • Template:RQ:Shakespeare Anthony
5. 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

Translations

Noun

vie (plural vies)

1. (obsolete) A contest.

Anagrams

• -ive, I've, VEI

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin vita.

Noun

vie f (plural vies)

1. life

Finnish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ie?/, [??ie??]
• Rhymes: -ie
• Syllabification: vie

Verb

vie

1. Third-person singular indicative present form of viedä.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ie??/, [??ie??(?)]
• Rhymes: -ie
• Syllabification: vie

Verb

vie

1. Indicative present connegative form of viedä.
2. Second-person singular imperative present form of viedä.
3. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of viedä.

Anagrams

• vei

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi/
• Homophones: vies, vis, vit

Etymology 1

From Old French vie, from older Old French vi?e, from Vulgar Latin v?tam, from Latin v?ta, from Proto-Italic *g??t?.

Noun

vie f (countable and uncountable, plural vies)

1. life, the state of organisms (organic beings) prior to death
2. life, period in which one is alive, between birth and death
3. biography, life
4. life, lifeforms

5. cost of living

Derived terms

Descendants

• Antillean Creole: vi
• Guianese Creole: lavi
• Haitian Creole: lavi
• Louisiana Creole French: vi
• Seychellois Creole: lavi

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Latin via. Compare voie.

Noun

vie f (plural vies)

1. (Switzerland, Jura) way, path (road, railway, etc)

Related terms

• vionnet (Switzerland, rare)

Further reading

• “vie” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi?.e/

Noun

vie f

1. plural of via

Anagrams

• evi

Latin

Verb

vi?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of vie?

Manx

Adjective

vie

1. Lenited form of mie.

Mutation

References

• Mark Abley, Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages (2003)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse vígja, from Proto-Germanic *w?hijan?.

Verb

vie (imperative vi, present tense vier, simple past vigde or vidde or via or viet, past participle vigd or vidd or via or viet)

1. dedicate something to someone or towards a cause
2. wed two persons into marriage

Derived terms

• innvie
• vielse
• vievann

References

• “vie” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

vie (present tense vier, past tense vigde, supine vigd or vigt, past participle vigd, present participle viande, imperative vi)

1. alternative form of via

Old French

Etymology

From Latin v?ta.

Noun

vie f (oblique plural vies, nominative singular vie, nominative plural vies)

1. life

Descendants

• Middle French: vie
  • French: vie
    • Antillean Creole: vi
    • Guianese Creole: lavi
    • Haitian Creole: lavi
    • Louisiana Creole French: vi
    • Seychellois Creole: lavi
  • Norman: vie (Guernésiais)
• Walloon: veye, vèie

Picard

Etymology

From Latin vita.

Noun

vie f (plural vies)

1. life

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi.e/

Etymology 1

From Latin v?nea.

Noun

vie f (plural vii)

1. vineyard
2. vine

Declension

Synonyms

• (vine): vi??

Derived terms

• vi?? de vie

Related terms

• vier

Etymology 2

Forms of the adjective viu.

Adjective

vie

1. nominative feminine singular of viu
2. accusative feminine singular of viu

Slovak

Verb

vie

1. third-person singular present of vedie?