vice

Other spellings

• (US) vise

Pronunciation

• (UK) (US) IPA ^(key): /vaɪs/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Homophone: vise

Noun

Singular vice

Plural vices

A bench vice

1. (countable) A vice is an immoral or bad habit.

   Smoking is a vice.

2. (countable) (UK) A vice is an instrument that consists of two jaws and is closed by a screw or lever. It is used for holding work, such as filing.

Verb

Plain form vice

Third-person singular vices

Past tense viced

Past participle viced

Present participle vicing

1. If you vice something, you clamp it with a vice.