vice
see also: Vice
Pronunciation
Vice
Proper noun
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see also: Vice
Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /vaɪs/
vice (plural vices)
- A bad habit.
- Gluttony is a vice, not a virtue.
- (legal) Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs.
- A defect in the temper or behaviour of a horse, such as to make the animal dangerous, to injure its health, or to diminish its usefulness.
- 1839, From the case of Scholefield v. Robb Gilligan, Brenda (2002) Practical Horse Law, →ISBN: “So a horse with say, navicular disease, making him suitable only for light hacking, would probably be unsound, whereas rearing would be a vice, being a "defect in the temper... making it dangerous". A vice can however render a horse unsound - possibly a crib biter will damage its wind.”
- (bad habit) virtue
- French: vice
- German: Laster, Lasterhaftigkeit, Untugend
- Italian: vizio, difetto, malvezzo, pecca
- Portuguese: vício, mania
- Russian: поро́к
- Spanish: vicio, resabio
- French: affaire de mœurs
- German: Sittenvergehen, Sittlichkeitsdelikt, Sittlichkeitsverbrechen
- Italian: delitto a sfondo sessuale
- Russian: поро́к
vice (plural vices)
- A mechanical screw apparatus used for clamping or holding (also spelled vise).
- A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
- (obsolete) A grip or grasp.
- 1597, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Second Part, II. I. 22:
- Fang. An I but fist him once; an a’ come but within my vice,–
- 1597, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Second Part, II. I. 22:
- (architecture) A winding or spiral staircase.
vice (vices, present participle vicing; past and past participle viced)
- To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice.
- 1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, I. ii. 416:
- Camillo. As he had seen’t, or been an instrument / To vice you to't, that you have touched his queen / Forbiddenly
- The coachman's hand was viced between his upper and lower thigh.
- 1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, I. ii. 416:
vice (not comparable)
- in place of; subordinate to; designating a person below another in rank
- instead of, in place of
- A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned.
vice (plural vices)
- One who acts in place of a superior.
- The health of the Vice was proposed in appropriate language; in replying, Mr. Marriott thanked the company […]
Vice
Proper noun
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