Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A heavy clamp, usually mounted on a workbench and operated by a screw or lever, used in carpentry or metalworking to hold a piece in position.
- transitive verb To hold or compress in or as if in a vise.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
vese . - 1. To screw; force, as by a screw.
- To press or squeeze with a vise, or as if with a vise; hold as if in a vise.
- noun A screw.
- noun The newel, or central shaft, of a winding staircase.
- noun A gripping or holding tool or appliance, fixed or portable, used to hold an object firmly in position while work is performed upon it.
- noun A tool for drawing rods of lead into the grooved rods called
cames used for setting glass, especially in stained-glass windows. - noun A grip or grasp.
- noun The cock or tap of a vessel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US An
instrument consisting of twojaws , closing by a screw,lever ,cam , or the like, for holding work, as in filing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a holding device attached to a workbench; has two jaws to hold workpiece firmly in place
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Yes | No | Report from matt wasson wrote 2 weeks 3 days ago it also works as a great tool when a vise is not available ..
Field & Stream 2010
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Putting relationships through that vise is simply cruel.
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Yes | No | Report from matt wasson wrote 2 weeks 3 days ago it also works as a great tool when a vise is not available ..
Field & Stream 2010
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Looking at the rifle in the vise from the side, they might also not be in alignment in the up and down direction with the same result.
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Performance vise, is it wise to use ASP Session ID. .as it may consume a lot of memory, resources. .or create custom Session.
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Winchester Shooting Products 'new deluxe gun vise is a must for anyone who's serious about gun maintenance.
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Freshwater: Tightening the vise is the next entry in this blog.
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Freshwater: Tightening the vise was the previous entry in this blog.
Freshwater: Will a quick settlement be reached? - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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He is also to be commended for bringing to notice the musical celebrities of the race and giving them their station in the line of musical artists, and at the same time fixed their names, their abilities, their triumphs in the cold reality of type, which might well be termed vise of facts.
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On the other side of the vise are the constraints that they have in the environment that get in the way of them successfully addressing the business needs-legacy infrastructure and applications and antiquated methods of managing the infrastructure that make it difficult to be responsive to change, or people with the skills that won't serve modern technology's needs or environments.
Independent Information Technology and business analysis from IT-Analysis.com Dana Gardner 2010
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