What's the difference between reconcile and vie?

Reconcile


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to reconcile persons who have quarreled.
  • (v. t.) To bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet submission; as, to reconcile one's self to affictions.
  • (v. t.) To make consistent or congruous; to bring to agreement or suitableness; -- followed by with or to.
  • (v. t.) To adjust; to settle; as, to reconcile differences.
  • (v. i.) To become reconciled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
  • (2) The reports of rod-dominated psychophysical spectral sensitivity from the deprived eye of monocularly lid-sutured (MD) monkeys are intriguing but difficult to reconcile with the absence of any reported deprivation effects in retina.
  • (3) We suggest a model for transcription that involves the participation of a nucleoskeleton at the active site and reconcile the contradictory results obtained using different salt concentrations.
  • (4) Describing his blueprint for Parliament 2.0, Bercow says in a speech to the Hansard Society on Wednesday that parliament needs to "reconcile traditional concepts and institutions of representative democracy with the technological revolution witnessed over the past decade or two, which has created both a demand for and an opportunity to establish a digital democracy".
  • (5) His achilles heel would be reconciling disparate sections of the grassroots party and restoring the fissures in the parliamentary party.
  • (6) This review considers the biophysics of penetrating missile wounds, highlights some of the more common misconceptions and seeks to reconcile the conflicting and confusing management doctrines that are promulgated in the literature-differences that arise not only from two scenarios, peace and war, but also from misapprehensions of the wounding process.
  • (7) The difficulty in reconciling these results with the preeminent role assigned to the hypothalamus in the organization of predatory aggressive behavior was considered.
  • (8) In an attempt to reconcile these opposite amphetamine effects on rotation in terms of dopaminergic mechanisms, a series of 4 experiments were conducted.
  • (9) The current model of the Na+-dependent high-affinity acidic amino acid transport carrier allows the observations to be explained and reconciled with previous seemingly conflicting reports on stimulation of acidic amino acid uptake by low concentrations of K+.
  • (10) Glitzy online lectures, or fancy learning technologies, are difficult to reconcile with this fundamental scepticism.
  • (11) The present study reconciles this conflict by showing that the major form of gastrin in the pyloric antrum is the heptadecpeptide form, while the duodenum contains mainly "big" and almost no heptadecapeptide gastrin.
  • (12) It is difficult to reconcile the properties of this mutant with the chemiosmotic hypothesis.
  • (13) But the space was created by another reconcilation between competing Democrats earlier in the evening.
  • (14) Using a self-paced manual, 8 participants in two groups were taught to write checks, complete deposit slips, and reconcile monthly bank statements.
  • (15) Our results reconcile some apparently conflicting published data and suggest that the mode of antigen association with liposomes considerably influences the pathways by which stimulation occurs.
  • (16) After the Scot sued Rooney over allegations in a biography the pair reconciled but whether Moyes would want him to stay at United is not yet clear, though he will have the final say on the striker's future.
  • (17) This article examines alternative ways of resolving an apparent paradox that has emerged from neuropsychological studies of language development: How can the developmentally stable functional asymmetry ("hemispheric specialization") observed in neurologically intact children be reconciled with the dramatic recovery of function often displayed following unilateral brain damage?
  • (18) It is a means of reconciling yourself with the past.
  • (19) The premature senescence noted in cells from subjects with cystic fibrosis reconciles controversial observations of cell doubling reported in the literature.
  • (20) However, intense investigative efforts over the last several years using pharmacological, biochemical and behavioral approaches have produced results that are increasingly difficult to reconcile with the existence of only two dopamine receptor subtypes.

Vie


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See Revie.
  • (v. i.) To strive for superiority; to contend; to use emulous effort, as in a race, contest, or competition.
  • (v. t.) To stake; to wager.
  • (v. t.) To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy.
  • (n.) A contest for superiority; competition; rivalry; strife; also, a challenge; a wager.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) of methotrexate (MTX) methasquin (MQ), aminopterin, and N-([2,4-diamino-5-chloro-6-quinazolinyl) methyl]-amino)benzol)-L-glutamate (5-Cl-deaza-AM), total accumulation in small intestine was vie- to eight-fold greater than the dihydrofolate reductase content.
  • (2) Monsieur Blue open daily midday-2am; Tokyo Eat open daily midday-midnight; Le Smack open midday-midnight Le Musée de la Vie Romantique Cafe Vie Romantique This is one of the most discrete but enchanting Parisian museums, an early 19th-century mansion tucked away down a narrow cul-de-sac in the backstreets of Pigalle.
  • (3) In 2011, the Republican frontrunner was, briefly, Herman Cain, a pizza magnate who took his tax plan from a computer game and quoted a song from the Pokemon mo vie in his speeches.
  • (4) Then came Virgin Vie, Virgin Vision, Virgin Vodka, Virgin Wine, Virgin Jeans, Virgin Brides, Virgin Cosmetics and Virgin Cars - none fulfilling their creator's inflated dreams.
  • (5) Like Strictly Come Dancing, the bottom two contestants each week will vie to stay in the show, this time in a "vault off".
  • (6) These simulations permit us to follow the sequence of events accompanying haemodilution, and to assess the qualities of a plasmatic substitute: oncotic strength, demi-vie, effect on the extravascular mobilisation of proteins.
  • (7) I still believe that among the conflicting voices that vie for Saif's tortured soul there is the voice of a genuine democrat and a Libyan patriot.
  • (8) American networks vied fiercely for Fox's new show and it is difficult to walk for more than two blocks in New York without seeing a giant advert for the 22-episode series.
  • (9) But a Chinese newspaper has accused the character of political subversion, claiming that his presence at a recent exhibition in the southern Chinese city of Chengdu was part of a plot to portray Japan in a kinder light as the two east Asian rivals vie over wartime history and territories in the East China Sea .
  • (10) The party has vied with the Liberal Democrats to dominate the pensions debate.
  • (11) Since then, his supporters and opponents have vied for power, sometimes violently.
  • (12) It's not a radical idea, and it's gained some pace recently as the big banks vie for the chance to see what alienates customers the most, between not being able to run a website, not being able see a market without wanting to rig it, not being able to take responsibility for anything and simply not giving a toss.
  • (13) Well, Man of Steel succeeded for the most part because it vied to present a world as close as possible to reality, one in which Superman suddenly arrived to shock the planet with his very existence.
  • (14) He always understood wine as a drinker rather than an academic, however, and to prove the point the labels on the kitchen pillar are pasted haphazardly, as if each has been slapped on at the end of a long and tremendous evening: a Château Latour 1963 overlaps a La Tâche 1954, a Château Margaux 1934 vies for space with a Mouton Rothschild 1878.
  • (15) Barbara Juokwewycz, spokeswoman for La Vie Active, said they had been processing 50 people a day since last Monday.
  • (16) Netherlands' goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen (bottom) vies with Australia's forward Mathew Leckie.
  • (17) The speed of US disengagement will depend to a large extent on whether the alternative is a vacuum and instability, as a variety of religious and tribal forces vie to inherit the Gulf kingdoms.
  • (18) In 1983 an important new forum for bioethical discussion in France was created, with the establishment of the Comité Consultatif National d'Ethique pour les Sciences de la Vie et de la Santé (C.C.N.E.).
  • (19) On a stage in a country town square, the accordion band struck up Edith Piaf's bitter-sweet love song, La Vie en Rose .
  • (20) Let's have a reality-TV contest in which top materials-science researchers vie to invent a more efficient kind of solar cell in order to combat global warming, while also having to rehearse and perform an entire postmodern circus in skimpy costumes.