vise

See also: Vise, visé, više, and vise-

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English

Etymology 1

From Middle English vis, vys, vice (“screw”), from Anglo-Norman vyz, vice, from Old French vis, viz, from Latin vītis (“vine”); probably akin to English withy.

Alternative forms

• vice (British English)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaɪs/

• Audio (US)

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• Homophone: vice
• Rhymes: -aɪs

Noun

vise (plural vises)

A bench vise

1. (US) An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing.

Translations

two-jawed instrument for holding work

• Albanian: morsë f pl
• Armenian: մամլակ (hy) (mamlak)
• Belarusian: ціскі́ m pl (ciskí)
• Bulgarian: менгеме (bg) n (mengeme)
• Catalan: cargol de banc m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 老虎鉗 (zh), 老虎钳 (zh) (lǎohǔqián), 夾鉗 (zh), 夹钳 (zh) (jiāqián), 虎鉗 (zh), 虎钳 (zh) (hǔqián), 萬力 (zh), 万力 (zh) (wànlì)

• Czech: svěrák (cs) m
• Danish: skruestik c, skruetvinge c
• Dutch: bankschroef (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: vajco
• Estonian: kruustangid (et)
• Finnish: ruuvipuristin, ruuvipenkki (fi)
• French: étau (fr) m
• Georgian: გირაგი (giragi)
• German: Schraubstock (de) m
• Greek: μέγγενη (el) f (méngeni)
• Hebrew: מלחציים‎
• Hindi: बाँक (hi) (bā̃k)
• Hungarian: satu (hu)
• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
• Ido: skrubtenilo, skrubmordilo
• Irish: bís f

• Italian: morsa (it) f
• Japanese: 万力 (まんりき, manriki), バイス (baisu)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 바이스 (baiseu)
• Lithuanian: spaustuvai m pl
• Macedonian: менгеме n (mengeme)
• Maori: purimau
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skruestikke (no) m or f, skrustikke m or f, skrutvinge m or f

• Polish: imadło (pl) n
• Portuguese: torno (pt) m, morsa (pt) f
• Romanian: menghină (ro)
• Russian: тиски́ (ru) m pl (tiskí), тиси́ m pl (tisí)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: mengele (sh) f pl

• Slovene: primež m
• Spanish: tornillo de banco m, torno de banco m, morsa (es) f (Arg.)
• Swahili: jiriwa (sw)
• Swedish: skruvstäd (sv) n
• Tagalog: gato (tl)
• Thai: แท่นจับชิ้นงาน
• Ukrainian: леща́та (uk) pl (leščáta)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Verb

vise (third-person singular simple present vises, present participle vising, simple past and past participle vised)

1. To clamp with or as with a vise.
   • 1904, The Cambrian - Volume 24, page 166:

     He looked to see the secretary, vised and crackled in those arms, drop limp and senseless.

   • 1981, Petersen's Photographic Magazine - Volume 10, Issues 7-12, page 51:

     Repeat this step to make the bend at the other 39-inch mark being careful that it is also at a 90° angle to the vised pipe, and also parallel to the first bend.

   • 2007, Catherine Anderson, Phantom Waltz, →ISBN, page 302:

     “There's my girl,” he whispered. He reached back to lift each of her legs to vise her knees under his arms.

   • 2013, Geoff Berner, Festival Man: A Novel, →ISBN:

     I do clearly remember the last part of that conversation, because it involved Athena promising that the next time she saw me, she was going to vise my jaws open and shit down my throat.

Etymology 2

Verb

vise (third-person singular simple present vises, present participle viseing, simple past and past participle vised)

1. Alternative form of visé
   • 1867, Luise Mühlbach, Frederick the Great and His Family, →ISBN:

     It was the hour in which all who had affairs to arrange with the Austrian ambassador, passports to vise, contracts to sign,were allowed entrance, and it was the baron's duty to receive them.

   • 1897, United States. Department of State, Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, page 518:

     Although the Department has no wish to remonstrate further than it has already done against the refusal of the Russian authorities to vise passports issued to naturalized citizens of Russian origin, its position is consistent and tenable that a passport issued by the Government of the United States to one of its citizens and intended for his protection in any and all foreign countries which he may choose to visit is not to be in effect destroyed or impaired in value by a Russian consular officer.

   • 1904, Frank Charles Smith, ‎Lucien Brock Proctor, ‎& Heman Gerald Chapin, The American Lawyer - Volume 12, page 33:

     The latest published correspondence on the subject is in the case of Waix, an American citizen of the Jewish race, who applied to the Russian consul general in New York to vise his passport, in order that he might visit Russia.

   • 1938, Manchuria: Semi-monthly Publication of the Manchuria Daily News:

     At Manchouli, it was said, ViceConsul Ishida and Chancellor Teng requested the local Soviet Consulate to vise their passports, but the Soviet consulate authorities unreasonably declined to comply with the request.

References

• vise in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Ives, vies

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse vísa.

Adjective

vise

1. plural and definite singular attributive of vis

Noun

vise c (singular definite visen, plural indefinite viser)

1. song, ballad, ditty

Declension

Declension of vise

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	vise	visen	viser	viserne
genitive	vises	visens	visers	visernes

Verb

vise (imperative vis, infinitive at vise, present tense viser, past tense viste, perfect tense har vist)

1. to show
2. (mathematics) prove
3. (reflexive) show off

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French

Verb

vise

1. first-person singular present indicative of viser
2. third-person singular present indicative of viser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of viser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of viser
5. second-person singular imperative of viser

Anagrams

• sévi, vies

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Galician

Verb

vise

1. first-person singular preterite subjunctive of ver
2. third-person singular preterite subjunctive of ver

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Latin

Participle

vīse

1. vocative masculine singular of vīsus

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Middle English

Noun

vise

1. Alternative form of vice

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Adjective

vise

1. definite singular/plural of vis

Etymology 2

From Old Norse vísa (“a manner of singing”), related to vis.

Noun

vise f or m (definite singular visa or visen, indefinite plural viser, definite plural visene)

1. lyrical or epic poem with plain content and plain melody
   • En strofisk dikt med strofisk melodi såväl litterärt som musikalisk oftast präglad av en viss enkelhet i stilen. Bengt R. Jonsson (Swedish)

     A stanzaic poem with a stanzaic melody both literary and musically usually characterized by to some degree a simplicity of style.

Usage notes

The Scandinavian term vise is less comprehensive than the English song (Norwegian Bokmål Norwegian Bokmål sang), German German Lied or French French chanson. The term sang is often citing a collective whereas the vise more commonly refers to an I.

Derived terms

• folkevise
• skillingsvise

 

Related terms

• sang

Verb

vise (imperative vis, present tense viser, passive vises, simple past viste, past participle vist, present participle visende)

1. to show

   vise fram til vennene våre ― show to our friends

2. to send someone on their way

   vise noen til en dyktig lege ― send someone to a proficient physician

   vise bort ― turn away

Derived terms

Terms derived from vise (verb)

• avvise
• bortvise

• henvise
• oppvise

• påvise

References

• “vise” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Adjective

vise

1. inflection of vis:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

Etymology 2

Adjective

vise

1. neuter singular of visen

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Portuguese

Verb

vise

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of visar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of visar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of visar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of visar

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Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈvi.se]

Noun

vise n pl

1. plural of vis

Synonyms

• visuri

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbise/

Verb

vise

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of visar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of visar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of visar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of visar.

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Swedish

Adjective

vise

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of vis.
2. (dated) absolute plural form of vis.

   de tre vise männen ― the three wise men, the Biblical Magi

Noun

vise c

1. a queen bee

Declension

Declension of vise
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	vise	visen	visar	visarna
Genitive	vises	visens	visars	visarnas

Related terms

• visebur
• visecell
• visefall
• visefallen
• viselös

 

References

• vise in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)