Vise Definition

vīs
vices, vised, vise, viseing, vises, vising
noun
vises
A device, usually fastened to a workbench, consisting of two jaws opened and closed by a screw, lever, etc. and used for holding firmly an object being worked on.
Webster's New World

Visa.

Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
vised, vises, vising
To hold or squeeze with or as with a vise.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Vise

Noun

Singular:
vise
Plural:
vises

Origin of Vise

  • Middle English vis screwlike device from Old French screw from Latin vītis vine (from its spiral wrappings) wei- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French vis (“screw, winding stairs"), from Old French vis, viz, from Latin vitis (“vine"); probably akin to English withy.

    From Wiktionary

Vise Sentence Examples

  • There are a variety of successful methods for stress headache relief that helps ease the vise like pressure and constant pain quickly.

  • Because of this, fitting a lower slide cutaway results in enrichment and vise versa.

  • Words denoting any gender shall denote all genders and words denoting persons shall include firms and corporations and vise versa.

  • Most inhabitants of present day New York would be regarded as highly deviant by the Pilgrim Fathers, and vise versa.

  • And what is a monophthong in one language may have a diphthong as its nearest equivalent in another and vise versa.

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Words Starting With

VVIVIS

Words Ending With

ESEISE

Unscrambles

vise

Words Starting With V and Ending With E

Starts With V & Ends With EStarts With VI & Ends With EStarts With V & Ends With SE

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4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With V4 Letter Words Ending With E