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n.
A clamping device, usually consisting of two jaws closed or opened by a screw or lever, used in carpentry or metalworking to hold a piece in position.
tr.v.
vised also viced, vis·ing also vic·ing, vis·es also vic·es
To hold or compress in or as if in a vise.
[Middle English vis, screwlike device, from Old French, screw, from Latin vītis, vine (from its spiral wrappings); see wei- in Indo-European roots.]
"moral fault, wickedness," 1297, from O.Fr. vice, from L. vitium "defect, offense, blemish, imperfection," in both physical and moral senses (cf. It. vezzo "usage, entertainment").
"Horace and Aristotle have already spoken to us about the virtues of their forefathers and the vices of their own times, and through the centuries, authors have talked the same way. If all this were true, we would be bears today." [Montesquieu]
a kind of strong tool for holding an object firmly, usually between two metal jaws Example: The carpenter held the piece of wood in a vice; He has a grip like a vice.
Arabic:
مِلْزَمَه
Chinese (Simplified):
老虎钳
Chinese (Traditional):
老虎鉗
Czech:
svěrák
Danish:
skruestik
Dutch:
bankschroef
Estonian:
kruustangid
Finnish:
ruuvipenkki
French:
étau
German:
der Schraubstock
Greek:
μέγγενη
Icelandic:
skrúfstykki
Indonesian:
tanggam
Japanese:
万力
Korean:
부도덕, 악덕
Latvian:
skrūvspīles
Lithuanian:
spaustuvai, žnyplės
Norwegian:
skrustikke, tang
Polish:
imadło
Portuguese (Brazil):
torno
Portuguese (Portugal):
torno
Romanian:
menghină
Russian:
тиски
Slovak:
zverák
Slovenian:
primež
Spanish:
torno de banco
Swedish:
skruvstäd
Turkish:
mengene
vice1[vais]noun
a serious moral fault Example: Continual lying is a vice.
Arabic:
رَذيلَه
Chinese (Simplified):
不道德行为
Chinese (Traditional):
不道德行為
Czech:
nectnost
Danish:
uvane
Dutch:
ondeugd
Estonian:
pahe
Finnish:
pahe
French:
vice
German:
die Untugend
Greek:
σοβαρό ελάττωμα, διαστροφή
Hungarian:
bűn
Icelandic:
löstur
Indonesian:
cacat moral
Japanese:
悪徳
Latvian:
netikums
Lithuanian:
yda, nedorybė
Norwegian:
last, moralsk lyte
Polish:
wada, grzech, zło
Portuguese (Brazil):
vício
Portuguese (Portugal):
vício
Romanian:
nărav
Russian:
порок
Slovak:
neresť, nemravnosť
Slovenian:
pregreha
Swedish:
synd
Turkish:
ciddî ahlâk bozukluğu
vice2[vais]noun
a bad habit Example: Smoking is not one of my vices.
Arabic:
عادَة سيِّئَه
Chinese (Simplified):
恶习
Chinese (Traditional):
惡習
Czech:
neřest
Danish:
last
Dutch:
ondeugd
Estonian:
pahe
Finnish:
pahe
French:
défaut
German:
das Laster
Greek:
κακή συνήθεια, κουσούρι
Hungarian:
rossz szokás
Icelandic:
slæmur ávani, löstur
Indonesian:
kebiasaan buruk, kejahatan
Japanese:
悪癖
Latvian:
slikts ieradums
Lithuanian:
yda
Norwegian:
uvane, last
Polish:
zły nawyk
Portuguese (Brazil):
vício
Portuguese (Portugal):
vício
Romanian:
viciu
Russian:
порок, слабость
Slovak:
zlozvyk
Slovenian:
razvada
Spanish:
vicio
Swedish:
last
Turkish:
kötü alışkanlık
vice-[vais]
second in rank and acting as deputy for Example: the Vice-President; the vice-chairman
Main Entry: vice Pronunciation: 'vIs, 'vI-sE Function: preposition Etymology: Latin, ablative of vic- place, turn : in the place of <I will preside,
vice the absent chairman>; also: rather than
Crime\ (kr[imac]m), n.[F. crime, fr. L. crimen judicial decision, that which is subjected to such a decision, charge, fault, crime, fr. the root of cernere to decide judicially. See Certain.]1. Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law. 2. Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong. "To part error from crime." --Tennyson. Note: Crimes, in the English common law, are grave offenses which were originally capitally punished (murder, rape, robbery, arson, burglary, and larceny), as distinguished from misdemeanors, which are offenses of a lighter grade. See Misdemeanors. 3. Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity. No crime was thine, if 'tis no crime to love. --Pope. 4. That which occasion crime. [Obs.] The tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall. --Spenser. Capital crime, a crime punishable with death. Syn: Sin; vice; iniquity; wrong. Usage: Crime, Sin,Vice. Sin is the generic term, embracing wickedness of every kind, but specifically denoting an offense as committed against God. Crime is strictly a violation of law either human or divine; but in present usage the term is commonly applied to actions contrary to the laws of the State. Vice is more distinctively that which springs from the inordinate indulgence of the natural appetites, which are in themselves innocent. Thus intemperance, unchastity, duplicity, etc., are vices; while murder, forgery, etc., which spring from the indulgence of selfish passions, are crimes.
In*iq"ui*ty\, n.; pl. Iniquities. [OE. iniquitee, F. iniquit['e], L. iniquitas, inequality, unfairness, injustice. See Iniquous.]1. Absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; want of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness; as, the iniquity of bribery; the iniquity of an unjust judge. Till the world from his perfection fell Into all filth and foul iniquity. --Spenser. 2. An iniquitous act or thing; a deed of injustice o? unrighteousness; a sin; a crime. --Milton. Your iniquities have separated between you and your God. --Is. lix. 2. 3. A character or personification in the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice and sometimes of another. See Vice. Acts old Iniquity, and in the fit Of miming gets the opinion of a wit. --B. Jonson.
Vi*ca"ri*ous\, a. [L. vicarius, from vicis change, alternation, turn, the position, place, or office of one person as assumed by another; akin to Gr. ? to yield, give way, G. wechsel a change, and probably also to E. weak. See Weak, and cf. Vice, prep.]1. Of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority. 2. Acting of suffering for another; as, a vicarious agent or officer. The soul in the body is but a subordinate efficient, and vicarious . . . in the hands of the Almighty. --Sir M. Hale. 3. Performed of suffered in the place of another; substituted; as, a vicarious sacrifice; vicarious punishment. The vicarious work of the Great Deliverer. --I. Taylor. 4. (Med.) Acting as a substitute; -- said of abnormal action which replaces a suppressed normal function; as, vicarious hemorrhage replacing menstruation.
Vice\, n. [F., from L. vitium.]1. A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse. Withouten vice of syllable or letter. --Chaucer. Mark the vice of the procedure. --Sir W. Hamilton. 2. A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance. I do confess the vices of my blood. --Shak. Ungoverned appetite . . . a brutish vice. --Milton. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station. --Addison. 3. The buffoon of the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice, sometimes of another, or of Vice itself; -- called also Iniquity. Note: This character was grotesquely dressed in a cap with ass's ears, and was armed with a dagger of lath: one of his chief employments was to make sport with the Devil, leaping on his back, and belaboring him with the dagger of lath till he made him roar. The Devil, however, always carried him off in the end. --Nares. How like you the Vice in the play? . . . I would not give a rush for a Vice that has not a wooden dagger to snap at everybody. --B. Jonson. Syn: Crime; sin; iniquity; fault. See Crime.
Vice\, n. [See Vise.]1. (Mech.) A kind of instrument for holding work, as in filing. Same as Vise. 2. A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements. [Written also vise.] 3. A gripe or grasp. [Obs.] --Shak.
Vice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Viced; p. pr. & vb. n. Vicing.] To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice. --Shak. The coachman's hand was viced between his upper and lower thigh. --De Quincey.
Vice\, a. [Cf. F. vice-. See Vice, prep.] Denoting one who in certain cases may assume the office or duties of a superior; designating an officer or an office that is second in rank or authority; as, vice president; vice agent; vice consul, etc. Vice admiral. [Cf. F. vice-amiral.] (a) An officer holding rank next below an admiral. By the existing laws, the rank of admiral and vice admiral in the United States Navy will cease at the death of the present incumbents. (b) A civil officer, in Great Britain, appointed by the lords commissioners of the admiralty for exercising admiralty jurisdiction within their respective districts. Vice admiralty, the office of a vice admiral. Vice-admiralty court, a court with admiralty jurisdiction, established by authority of Parliament in British possessions beyond the seas. --Abbott. Vice chamberlain, an officer in court next in rank to the lord chamberlain. [Eng.] Vice chancellor. (a) (Law) An officer next in rank to a chancellor. (b) An officer in a university, chosen to perform certain duties, as the conferring of degrees, in the absence of the chancellor. (c) (R. C. Ch.) The cardinal at the head of the Roman Chancery. Vice consul [cf. F. vice-consul], a subordinate officer, authorized to exercise consular functions in some particular part of a district controlled by a consul. Vice king, one who acts in the place of a king; a viceroy. Vice legate [cf. F. vice-l['e]gat], a legate second in rank to, or acting in place of, another legate. Vice presidency, the office of vice president. Vice president [cf. F. vice-pr['e]sident], an officer next in rank below a president.
Vice\, a. [Cf. F. vice-. See Vice, prep.] Denoting one who in certain cases may assume the office or duties of a superior; designating an officer or an office that is second in rank or authority; as, vice president; vice agent; vice consul, etc. Vice admiral. [Cf. F. vice-amiral.] (a) An officer holding rank next below an admiral. By the existing laws, the rank of admiral and vice admiral in the United States Navy will cease at the death of the present incumbents. (b) A civil officer, in Great Britain, appointed by the lords commissioners of the admiralty for exercising admiralty jurisdiction within their respective districts. Vice admiralty, the office of a vice admiral. Vice-admiralty court, a court with admiralty jurisdiction, established by authority of Parliament in British possessions beyond the seas. --Abbott. Vice chamberlain, an officer in court next in rank to the lord chamberlain. [Eng.] Vice chancellor. (a) (Law) An officer next in rank to a chancellor. (b) An officer in a university, chosen to perform certain duties, as the conferring of degrees, in the absence of the chancellor. (c) (R. C. Ch.) The cardinal at the head of the Roman Chancery. Vice consul [cf. F. vice-consul], a subordinate officer, authorized to exercise consular functions in some particular part of a district controlled by a consul. Vice king, one who acts in the place of a king; a viceroy. Vice legate [cf. F. vice-l['e]gat], a legate second in rank to, or acting in place of, another legate. Vice presidency, the office of vice president. Vice president [cf. F. vice-pr['e]sident], an officer next in rank below a president.
Vice"roy\, n. [F. vice-roi; pref. vice- in the place of (L. vice) + roi a king, L. rex. See Vice, prep. and Royal.]1. The governor of a country or province who rules in the name of the sovereign with regal authority, as the king's substitute; as, the viceroy of India. 2. (Zo["o]l.) A large and handsome American butterfly (Basilarchia, or Limenitis, archippus). Its wings are orange-red, with black lines along the nervures and a row of white spots along the outer margins. The larv[ae] feed on willow, poplar, and apple trees.
Vi"cious\, a. [OF. vicious, F. vicieux, fr. L. vitiosus, fr. vitium vice. See Vice a fault.]1. Characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect. Though I perchance am vicious in my guess. --Shak. The title of these lords was vicious in its origin. --Burke. A charge against Bentley of vicious reasoning. --De Quincey. 2. Addicted to vice; corrupt in principles or conduct; depraved; wicked; as, vicious children; vicious examples; vicious conduct. Who . . . heard this heavy curse, Servant of servants, on his vicious race. --Milton. 3. Wanting purity; foul; bad; noxious; as, vicious air, water, etc. --Dryden. 4. Not correct or pure; corrupt; as, vicious language; vicious idioms. 5. Not well tamed or broken; given to bad tricks; unruly; refractory; as, a vicious horse. 6. Bitter; spiteful; malignant. [Colloq.] Syn: Corrupt; faulty; wicked; depraved. -- Vi"cious*ly, adv. -- Vi"cious*ness, n.
Vis"count`\, n. [OE. vicounte, OF. visconte, vescunte, F. vicomte, LL. vicecomes; L. vice (see Vice, a.) + comes a companion, LL., a count. See Count.]1. (O. Eng. Law) An officer who formerly supplied the place of the count, or earl; the sheriff of the county. 2. A nobleman of the fourth rank, next in order below an earl and next above a baron; also, his degree or title of nobility. See Peer, n., 3. [Eng.] --Chaucer.
Vise\, n. [F. vis a screw, winding stairs, OF. vis, viz, fr. L. vitis a vine; probably akin to E. withy.] An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing. [Written also vice.]
Vi"ti*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vitiated; p. pr. & vb. n. Vitiating.] [L. vitiatus, p. p. vitiare to vitiate, fr. vitium a fault, vice. See Vice a fault.] [Written also viciate.]1. To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air. A will vitiated and growth out of love with the truth disposes the understanding to error and delusion. --South. Without care it may be used to vitiate our minds. --Burke. This undistinguishing complaisance will vitiate the taste of readers. --Garth. 2. To cause to fail of effect, either wholly or in part; to make void; to destroy, as the validity or binding force of an instrument or transaction; to annul; as, any undue influence exerted on a jury vitiates their verdict; fraud vitiates a contract.
Vi*tu"per*ate\ (?; 277), v. t. [L. vituperatus, p. p. of vituperare to blame, vituperate; vitium a fault + parare to prepare. See Vice a fault, and Pare, v. t.] To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate.
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