(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.
(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.
Vile
Definition:
(superl.) Low; base; worthless; mean; despicable.
(superl.) Morally base or impure; depraved by sin; hateful; in the sight of God and men; sinful; wicked; bad.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those behind it have once again taken the law into their own hands and dispensed a vile form of rough justice.
(2) The deputy prime minister branded the treatment meted out to the four-year-old by his mother, Magdelena Luczak, and stepfather, Mariusz Krezolek, as evil and vile, but suggested it was up to the whole of society to stop such tragedies.
(3) Charlie Morris described the column as "vile and disgusting", adding that she hoped the writer "gets the sack".
(4) In China, where the Communist party has always determined which news is fit to print, authorities have ordered internet portals to abandon original reporting on political or social topics because of its “ extremely vile effect ”.
(5) The massacre was not committed by "the Poles" against "the Jews", but was a vile crime committed by specific individuals.
(6) Daryush 'Roosh V' Valizadeh cancels neo-masculinist meetings over safety Read more Roosh and company encountered such uniform hostility because their views are ostentatiously vile.
(7) Much porn is samey and some is utterly vile, full of torture, faeces, urine, vomit and blood and the utter degradation of women who become nothing but a series of orifices.
(8) Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn claimed the results so far illustrated that the Conservatives’ “vile campaign” had backfired .
(9) This whole vile outpouring may just be par for the course in the wilds of social media.
(10) I did, though, have my suspicions that the perpetrator of this vile assault was Dolge Orlick, Joe's journeyman apprentice.
(11) The description “whorephobic” is usually reserved for feminists who speak or campaign against the liberalisation of the laws on sex work, who dream of a world where this huge, vile industry doesn’t exist.
(12) It is true in both cases that secrecy helps to protect some truly vile criminals, terrorists and paedophiles.
(13) It was not that he could not play good guys; rather that he excelled at locating the virtues in the apparently vile.
(14) Jowell said: "Harriet Harman would have nothing to do with the vile rubbish of an organisation like PIE," adding: "I don't want anyone to think this present frenzy about Harriet, the NCCL and the Daily Mail attack on her is in any way explained by that was then and this is now."
(15) Last year the country's most senior judge said only "extremely vile criminals" were executed in 2007 as a result of "kill fewer, kill carefully" reforms that gave the supreme court the right to overturn capital sentences handed down by lower courts.
(16) You need locking up.” Vardy posted a screenshot of the threats with the words “shocking and vile”.
(17) "That is why I believe George Osborne's calculated decision to use the shocking and vile crimes of Mick Philpott to advance a political argument is the cynical act of a desperate chancellor.
(18) Vile stuff – but the Nazi attitude to modern art may have been radically misunderstood.
(19) "They will not further any aim or objective by their vile and callous deeds.
(20) Vile returned to Philadelphia and enrolled at a community college.