vice

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /vaɪs/

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• Rhymes: -aɪs
• Homophone: vise

From Middle English vice, from Old French vice, from Latin vitium (“fault or blemish”).

vice (plural vices)

1. A bad habit.

   Gluttony is a vice, not a virtue.

2. (law) Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs.
3. 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.
   • From the case of Scholefield v. Robb (1839). 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

• inherent vice
• vice squad

• habit

From French vis (“screw, winding stairs”), from Old French vis, viz, from Latin vitis (“vine”). Akin to English withy.

• vise (US)

vice (plural vices)

1. A mechanical screw apparatus used for clamping or holding (also spelled vise).
2. A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
3. (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,–

4. (architecture) A winding or spiral staircase.

vice (third-person singular simple present vices, present participle vicing, simple past and past participle viced)

1. 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

   • De Quincey

     The coachman's hand was viced between his upper and lower thigh.

From Latin vice (“in place of”), ablative form of vicis.

vice (not comparable)

1. in place of; subordinate to; designating a person below another in rank

   vice president

   vice admiral

vice

1. instead of, in place of

   A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned.

vice (plural vices)

1. One who acts in place of a superior.
   • 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 […]

• vice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• ICEV, cive

vice

1. in rows

• vico

From Middle French vice, from Old French vice, borrowed from Latin vitium.

• IPA^(key): /vis/

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• Homophones: vis, visse, vissent, visses
• Rhymes: -is

vice m (plural vices)

1. vice

• vice de forme
• vicier
  • vicié
• vicieux

• défaut
• péché

• “vice” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

vice

1. instead of

vice

1. instead

From Latin vicem.

• Rhymes: -itʃe

vice m or f (invariable)

1. deputy, substitute, vice

• vicepresidente
• vice-

• veci

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwi.ke/, [ˈwɪ.kɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.t͡ʃe/, [ˈviː.t͡ʃe]

vice

1. ablative singular of vicis

vice

1. in place of, subordinate to

• vice versā

• English: vice-
• French: vice
• Ido: vice
• Italian: vice
• Swedish: vice

vīce

1. vocative singular of vīcus

• vice in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vice in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vice in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

• vyce, vyse, vijs, wise, vise, wyce, vyhs

Borrowed from Old French vice, visse, from Latin vitium.

• IPA^(key): /ˈviːs(ə)/

vice (plural vices)

1. A fault or imperfection; a negative quality or attribute of something:
   1. A bad habit or tendency that one has; a negative human behaviour.
   2. A mistake; a fault due to deficience in knowledge or reasoning.
   3. (rare) An imperfection or blemish in one's visage or look.
2. Vice, iniquity, sinful behaviour; absence of virtue or morality:
   1. A vice; a general tendency or action that is morally bad.
   2. A specific example of immoral or sinful behaviour.
3. A sickness, disease or malady; an deleterious process effecting something.

• viciate
• vicious
• viciously
• viciousnesse

• English: vice
• Scots: vice

• “vīce (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-01.

From Old French vice, borrowed from Latin vitium.

vice m (plural vices)

1. vice (bad habit)

• French: vice

vice m, f (plural vices)

1. used as an abbreviation of any word containing the prefix vice-

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋìːtsɛ/, /ˈʋíːtsɛ/
• Tonal orthography: více, vȋce

více f pl (genitive víc, plural only)

1. purgatory

vice m or f (plural vice)

1. vice (second in command)

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vice

1. vice, second in rank, deputy, stand-in, acting

• vicedirektör
• vicekonung
• vicepresident
• vicevärd
• vice versa