Definitions for vise

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Spelling: [vahys]
IPA: /vaɪs/

Vise is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in vise (eisv).

Definitions for vise

noun

  1. any of various devices, usually having two jaws that may be brought together or separated by means of a screw, lever, or the like, used to hold an object firmly while work is being done on it.

verb (used with object)

  1. to hold, press, or squeeze with or as with a vise.

noun, verb (used with object)

  1. visa.

Origin of vise

1300-50; Middle English vis Old French: screw Latin vītis vine (whose spiral form gave later sense)

Examples for vise

A good plan to judge of the proper height is to measure from the jaws of the vise.

But the arms have their hinges in the heart and mine was tight locked like a vise.

The boards are then placed in a vise or clamp and allowed to remain there over night.

Yellow Elk and his followers had done their work well and he was held as in a vise.

And they all, each one of them, hit the ground when Ghitza let go his vise.

Once in the vise of his two arms, a man went down like a log.

His long, thin fingers were clutching her clasped hands as with a vise.

He licked his wide, cruel lips, seizing the girl's arms as in a vise.

Their world is changing—has already changed, really—in the vise of the economy and new technology.

It seemed to me the most natural thing, when you'd got 'em in the vise, to keep them there.

Word Value for vise
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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