vice

(Английский)

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.

Произносится как (IPA)

/vaɪs/

Этимология (Английский)

Унаследовано от среднеанглийский: vice

Родственно французский: fois

Родственно испанский: 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.

Синонимы

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

Переводы

vice

vicio

vizio

Laster

vício

vici

étau

ondeugd

Schraubstock

gebrek

bankschroef

morsa

schlechte Gewohnheit

vitium

Lasterhaftigkeit

Предложения

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

Доктор Бреслин, вице -президент университета, не был так уверен.

Margaret resented Blanche and vice versa from the beginning .

Маргарет возмущалась Бланш и наоборот с самого начала.