vice

(Inglés)

Noun

1. Bad or immoral behaviour.
2. Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to weapons, prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, tobacco, or drugs.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang) Clipping of vice squad.
4. 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.

Verb

Alternative spelling of vise (“to hold or squeeze with a vice”).

Adj

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

Prep

Instead of; in place of; versus.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/vaɪs/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: vice

Cognado con francés: fois

Cognado con español: vez

In summary

PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English vice, from Old French vice, from Latin vitium (“fault or blemish”). Displaced native Old English unþēaw.

Conceptos

vicio

torno

cizaña

desenfreno

flaqueza

tornillo de banco

torno de banco

mordazas

tornillo ajustador

defecto

tornillo de mordazas

Sinónimos

sin

evil

wickedness

vise

bad habit

depravity

clamp

🗜️

blemish

fault

defect

crime

immorality

villainy

vileness

badness

abuse

unrighteousness

rust

nefariousness

turpitude

viciousness

villainousness

vise

shortcoming

sinisterness

malignity

jaw vice

in place

in place of

wantonness

frailty

flaw

guilt

pliers

assistant

addiction

spitefulness

substitute

admiral

supplanter

terribleness

travail

understudy

unruliness

unworthiness

violation

virtue

wrench

🔧

wrongdoing

evil customs

Traducciones

vice

vizio

Laster

vício

vici

étau

ondeugd

Schraubstock

gebrek

bankschroef

morsa

vitium

schlechte Gewohnheit

Lasterhaftigkeit

Untugend

Oraciones

Doctor Breslin , the university vice president , was not so sure .

El doctor Breslin, el vicepresidente de la universidad, no estaba tan seguro.

Margaret resented Blanche and vice versa from the beginning .

Margaret resentía a Blanche y viceversa desde el principio.