vise
or vice
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.
to hold, press, or squeeze with or as with a vise.
Origin of vise
1Other words from vise
- viselike, adjective
Words Nearby vise
How to use vise in a sentence
The pandemic, which significantly scaled back ticket and concessions revenue, only tightened the vise.
Forget investors: AMC itself may have been bailed out by the actions of wallstreetbets | Steven Zeitchik | February 2, 2021 | Washington PostThe only mother who couldn’t pretend to function with her brain in the vise of sleeplessness.
Why is ‘The Push’ so popular? Perhaps because it plays into a mother’s worst fears. | Maureen Corrigan | January 21, 2021 | Washington PostRather than a single cause for their dying out, it’s looking as if Neanderthals were caught in a many-angled vise.
Much of What We Thought About Neanderthals Was Wrong. Here’s Why That Matters | Rebecca Wragg Sykes | October 27, 2020 | TimeHer cold, thin fingers wrapped around my jaw like a vise-Grip.
My ‘Kink’ Nightmare: James Franco’s BDSM Porn Documentary ‘Kink’ Only Tells Part of the Story | Aurora Snow | August 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTheir world is changing—has already changed, really—in the vise of the economy and new technology.
He flung himself forward, and catching her upper arms in the grip of a vise shook her until her teeth clacked together.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonI grabbed hold of the vise-locking screw to keep my knees from doubling under me.
Nine Men in Time | Noel Miller LoomisThere is a sharp sting in my tongue, my jaws are gripped as by a vise, and my mouth is torn open.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander BerkmanHe strove desperately, but each effort only wedged him more firmly in the awful vise.
A serviceable and inexpensive bench vise can be made in the following manner: Procure a piece of hard wood, 1 in.
The Boy Mechanic, Book 2 | Various
British Dictionary definitions for vise
/ (vaɪs) /
US a variant spelling of vice 2
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