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Look up: vice

  1. vice
    [n] - a specific form of evildoing
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Vice
    spiral stair
    Found on http://www.castlexplorer.co.uk/glossary.

  3. Vice
    Vice noun [ French, from Latin vitium .] 1. A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse. « Withouten vice of syllable or letter.» Chaucer. « Mark the vice of the procedure.» Sir W. Hamilton. 2. A moral fault or failing; especial ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/V/22

  4. Vice
    Vice noun [ See Vise .] 1. (Mech.) A kind of instrument for holding work, as in filing. Same as Vise . 2. A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements. [ Written also vise .] 3. A gripe or grasp. [ Obsolete] Shak.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/V/22

  5. Vice
    Vice transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Viced ; present participle & verbal noun Vicing .] To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice. Shak. « The coachman's hand was viced between his upper and lower thigh.» De Quincey.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/V/22

  6. Vice
    Vi'ce preposition [ Latin , abl. of vicis change, turn. See Vicarious .] In the place of; in the stead; as, A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/V/22

  7. Vice
    Vice adjective [ Confer French vice- . See Vice , preposition ] Denoting one who in certain cases may assume the office or duties of a superior; designating an officer or an office that is second in rank or authority; as, vice president; vice agent; vice consul, etc. Vice admiral . [ Confer French vice-amiral .] (a) ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/V/22

  8. vice
    1. A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse. 'Withouten vice of syllable or letter.' (Chaucer) 'Mark the vice of the procedure.' (Sir W. Hamilton) ... 2. A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customar ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  9. vice
    noun a specific form of evildoing; `vice offends the moral standards of the community`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  10. Vice
    `Vice` is a practice or habit that is considered immoral, depraved, and/or degrading in the associated society. In more minor usage, vice can refer to a fault, a defect, an infirmity, or merely a bad habit. Synomyms for vice include fault, depravity, sin, iniquity, wickedness and corruption. The modern English term that best captures its original meaning is the word `vicious`, which means `full of vice.` In this sense, the word `vice` comes from ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice

  11. VICE
    The software program `VICE` (all caps), standing for `V`ersat`I`le `C`ommodore `E`mulator`, is an emulator for Commodore's 8-bit computers, running on Amiga, Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, Mac OS X, OS/2, Acorn RISC OS, and BeOS host machines. VICE is free software, released under the GNU General Public Licence. Currently, VICE is one of the most widely-used emulators of the Commodore 8-bit microcomputers. It is also one of the few usable Commodore emulat...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VICE

  12. Vice
    • (n.) A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements. • (v. t.) To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice. • (prep.) In the place of; in the stead; as, A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned. • (n.) A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a politi...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  13. vice
    (from the article `Rousseau, Jean-Jacques`) ...the life of man in such a condition must have been `poor, nasty, brutish and short,` Rousseau claims that original man, while admittedly solitary, ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/v/20

  14. vice
    vice From Latin meaning: 'change, succession, position, place'. Used in the sense of 'one who is a deputy of or a stand-in for the person named by the combining root'.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  15. vice
    1. moral weakness
    2. a specific form of evildoing

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