vice

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 介词 prep.
中文释义
英 /vaɪs/    美 /vaɪs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Bad or immoral behaviour. (Especially often, a habit that harms oneself or others)
    — Pride is a vice, not a virtue.
  2. Alternative spelling of vise (“mechanical screw apparatus used for clamping”). Commonwealth,alt-of,alternative
  3. One who acts in place of a superior.
    — c. 1850s-1870s, Edward Minister and Son, The Gazette of Fashion and Cutting-Room Companion The health of the Vice was proposed in appropriate language; in replying, Mr. Marriott thanked the company […]
  4. Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to weapons, prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, tobacco, or drugs.
  5. A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
  6. Clipping of vice squad. abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,slang
  7. A winding or spiral staircase.
  8. 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.
    — So a horse with say, navicular disease, making him suitable only for light hacking, would probably be unsound, whereas rearing would be a vice, being a "defect in the temper... making it dangerous". A vice can however render a horse unsound - possibly a crib biter will damage its wind.
  9. A grip or grasp. obsolete
    — Fang. If I but fiſt him once: if he come but within my Vice.
动词 v.
  1. Alternative spelling of vise (“to hold or squeeze with a vice”). alt-of,alternative
    — Camillo. As he had ſeen’t, or beene an Instrument / To vice you to't, that you haue toucht his Queene / Forbiddenly.
形容词 adj.
  1. in place of; subordinate to; designating a person below another in rank not-comparable
    — vice president
介词 prep.
  1. Instead of; in place of; versus. dated
    — He was gardener and out-door man, vice Upton, resigned.

词形变化

vices plural vices plural vices present,singular,third-person vicing participle,present viced participle,past viced past vices plural

词汇关系

衍生词
by vice of inherent vice sapphic vice secret vice solitary vice stable vice vice clause vice girl vice squad
相关词
vicious vitiate vitiligo vituperate addiction habit racket racketeering sin tax

词源

词源 1
PIE word
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From Middle English vice, from Old French vice, from Latin vitium (“fault or blemish”). Displaced native Old English unþēaw.
词源 2
See vise.
词源 3
From Latin vice (“in place of”), ablative form of vicis. Compare French fois (“time”) and Spanish vez (“time, turn”).
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