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Vice

adj, name, noun, prep, verb, slang

Adjective

1
in place of; subordinate to; designating a person below another in rank not-comparable
"vice president"

Proper Noun

Noun

1
Bad or immoral behaviour.
"Pride is a vice, not a virtue."
2
Alternative spelling of vise (“mechanical screw apparatus used for clamping”). Commonwealth, alt-of, alternative
3
One who acts in place of a superior.
"c. 1850s-1870s, Edward Minister and Son, The Gazette of Fashion and Cutting-Room Companion The health of the Vice was proposed in appropriate language; in replying, Mr. Marriott thanked the company […]"
4
a specific form of evildoing wordnet
5
Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to weapons, prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, tobacco, or drugs.

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6
A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
7
a holding device attached to a workbench; has two jaws to hold workpiece firmly in place wordnet
8
Clipping of vice squad. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang
9
A winding or spiral staircase.
10
moral weakness wordnet
11
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.
"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."
12
A grip or grasp. obsolete
"Fang. If I but fiſt him once: if he come but within my Vice."

Preposition

1
Instead of; in place of; versus. dated
"He was gardener and out-door man, vice Upton, resigned."

Verb

1
Alternative spelling of vise (“to hold or squeeze with a vice”). alt-of, alternative
"Camillo. As he had ſeen’t, or beene an Instrument / To vice you to't, that you haue toucht his Queene / Forbiddenly."

Etymology 1

PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English vice, from Old French vice, from Latin vitium (“fault or blemish”). Displaced native Old English unþēaw.

Etymology 2

See vise.

Etymology 3

See vise.

Etymology 4

From Latin vice (“in place of”), ablative form of vicis. Compare French fois (“time”) and Spanish vez (“time, turn”).

Etymology 5

From Latin vice (“in place of”), ablative form of vicis. Compare French fois (“time”) and Spanish vez (“time, turn”).

Etymology 6

From Latin vice (“in place of”), ablative form of vicis. Compare French fois (“time”) and Spanish vez (“time, turn”).

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