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vise
1or vice
[ vahys ]
noun
- any of various devices, usually having two jaws that may be brought together or separated by means of a screw, lever, or the like, used to hold an object firmly while work is being done on it.
verb (used with object)
, vised, vis·ing.
- to hold, press, or squeeze with or as with a vise.
visé
2[ vee-zey, vee-zey ]
noun
, vi·séed, vi·sé·ing.
- visa.
vise
/ vaɪs /
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Other Words From
- viselike adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of vise1
1300–50; Middle English vis < Old French: screw < Latin vītis vine (whose spiral form gave later sense)
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Example Sentences
In the course of to-day my passport was “visé” five times, making once in every little town through which we had passed.
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He carried that indefinable passport which society recognizes and which needs no visé.
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I first called upon the American minister, and my passport—made out in Washington—was visé for Paris.
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On the back he endorsed that it had been torn by accident, and then gave it the proper visé, affixing the stamps.
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Dalroy was able to note the name on a small board affixed to the side of the vehicle: “Henri Joos, miller, Visé.”
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