vise

See also: Appendix:Variations of "vise"

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vise

Etymology 1

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

Probably akin to English withe.

Alternative forms

vice (British English)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /vaɪs/
Audio (US): (file)
Homophone: vice
Rhymes: -aɪs

Noun

vise (plural vises)

(US) An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing.
- 1937 October, R. H. Jenkins, “Five attractive new designs you can work out from inexpensive materials”, in Popular Science, volume 131, number 4, Bonnier Corporation, page 96:
  Clamp this loop in a strong vise and twist the two ends evenly into one piece. As the twisting progresses, move the wire along so as to keep the grip of the vise close to the hands.
(figurative) A situation in which one's freedom of choice is constrained.
- c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 3:
  I'd like to know what would become of us in the next ten minutes. They've got us in a vise. We're done for, Gall.

Descendants

→ Japanese: バイス

Translations

two-jawed instrument for holding work

Albanian: morsë f pl
Arabic: مِنْجَلَة f (minjala), مَلْزَمَة f (malzama)
Armenian: մամլակ (hy) (mamlak)
Azerbaijani: məngənə (az)
Belarusian: ціскі́ m pl (ciskí)
Breton: biñs-taol (br) f
Bulgarian: ме́нгеме (bg) n (méngeme)
Burmese: ပြုတ်တူ (my) (pruttu)
Catalan: cargol de banc m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 老虎鉗／老虎钳 (zh) (lǎohǔqián), 夾鉗／夹钳 (zh) (jiāqián), 虎鉗／虎钳 (zh) (hǔqián), 萬力／万力 (zh) (wànlì), 臺鉗／台钳 (táiqián)
Czech: svěrák (cs) m
Danish: skruestik c, skruetvinge c
Dutch: bankschroef (nl) m or f
Esperanto: vajco
Estonian: kruustangid (et)
Finnish: ruuvipuristin (fi), ruuvipenkki (fi)
French: étau (fr) m
Georgian: გირაგი (giragi)
German: Schraubstock (de) m
Greek: μέγγενη (el) f (méngeni)
Hebrew: מלחציים \ מֶלְחָצַיִם m du
Hindi: बाँक (hi) m (bā̃k)
Hungarian: satu (hu)
Icelandic: skrúfstykki n
Ido: skrubtenilo, skrubmordilo
Indonesian: ragum (id)
Ingrian: tiskat
Irish: bís f
Italian: morsa (it) f
Japanese: 万力 (ja) (まんりき, manriki), バイス (baisu)
Kazakh: іскенже (ıskenje)
Khmer: អង្គំ (km) (ʼɑngkum)
Korean: 바이스 (baiseu)
Kyrgyz: кыскыч (kıskıc)
Lao: ເສືອຂົບເຫລັກ (sư̄a khop lek)
Latvian: spīles f pl
Lithuanian: spaustuvai m pl
Macedonian: менгеме n (mengeme)
Malay: ragum (ms)
Maori: purimau
Norwegian:
Bokmål: skruestikke (no) m or f, skrustikke m or f, skrutvinge m or f
Ottoman Turkish: منكنه (mengene)
Plautdietsch: Schruwkjlam f
Polish: imadło (pl) n
Portuguese: torno (pt) m, morsa (pt) f
Romanian: menghină (ro)
Russian: тиски́ (ru) m pl (tiskí), тисы́ (ru) m pl (tisý)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: менгеле f pl

Roman: mengele (sh) f pl
Slovak: zverák m
Slovene: primež m
Spanish: tornillo de banco m, morsa (es) f (Arg., Uru.)
Swahili: jiriwa (sw)
Swedish: skruvstäd (sv) n
Tagalog: gato (tl)
Tajik: гира (gira), гиро (giro)
Thai: แท่นจับชิ้นงาน, ปากกาจับของ
Turkish: mengene (tr)
Ukrainian: леща́та (uk) pl (leščáta)
Uzbek: gira (uz)
Vietnamese: mỏ cặp (vi), ê-tô

Verb

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

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)

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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

Ives, VIEs, vies

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈvɪsɛ]

Verb

vise

masculine singular present transgressive of viset

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈʋiːsə]
Rhymes: -iːsə

Etymology 1

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

vise

Wikipedia ^da

From Old Norse vísa f, from Proto-Germanic *wīsō, *wīsǭ (“manner”), the same word as Danish vis, -vis, English -wise, German Weise.

Noun

vise c (singular definite visen, plural indefinite viser)

song, ballad, ditty

Declension

More information common gender, Singular ...

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

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Declension of vise

Etymology 2

From Old Norse vísa, from Proto-Germanic *wīsōną, a variant of *wīsijaną, whence German weisen, Dutch wijzen. Both are derived from the Proto-Germanic adjective *wīsaz (“wise”), whence Danish vis.

Verb

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

Conjugation

More information present, past ...

	present	past
simple	viser	viste
perfect	har vist	havde vist
passive	vises	vistes
participle	visende	vist
imperative	vis	—
infinitive	vise	—
auxiliary verb	have	—
gerund	visen	—

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Inflection of vise

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

vise

plural and definite singular attributive of vis

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

Verb

vise

inflection of viser:
1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

sévi, vies

Verb

vise

first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ver

Participle

vīse

vocative masculine singular of vīsus

Noun

vise

Alternative form of vice

Etymology 1

Adjective

vise

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)

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)

to show
vise fram til vennene våre ― show to our friends
to send someone on their way
vise noen til en dyktig lege ― send someone to a proficient physician

vise bort ― turn away

Derived terms

References

“vise” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Anagrams

sive

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vísa, from Proto-Germanic *wīsōną.

Alternative forms

visa (a infinitive)

Verb

vise (present tense viser, past tense viste, past participle vist, passive infinitive visast, present participle visande, imperative vis)

(transitive) to show, point out
(transitive) to send away
(transitive) to demonstrate, to give proof of
(intransitive) to be visible

Synonyms

(most senses): syna, syne

Derived terms

vise bort
vise døra
vise farge
vise fingeren
vise tenner
vise til rette
vise tilbake på

Etymology 2

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

vise

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

From Old Norse vísa.

Noun

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

lyrical or epic poem with plain content and plain melody

Declension

More information indefinite singular, definite singular ...

Historical inflection of vise

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Aasen¹	Visa	Visa	Visor	Visorna
1901	visa (vise)		visor (visur)	visorne (visune)
1917	visa, vise²		viser, visor	visene, visone²
1938	vise		viser [visor]	visene [visene]
1983	vise [visa]
2012 (current)	vise	visa	viser	visene

Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen. ¹Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century. ²Form was allowed for schoolchildren as of 1910.

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