Vice

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Bad or immoral behaviour. (Especially often, a habit that harms oneself or others)

   “Pride is a vice, not a virtue.”

2. isim Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to weapons, prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, tobacco, or drugs.
3. isim Clipping of vice squad.
4. isim 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.”

5. isim Alternative spelling of vise (“mechanical screw apparatus used for clamping”).
6. isim A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
7. isim A winding or spiral staircase.
8. isim A grip or grasp.

   “Fang. If I but fiſt him once: if he come but within my Vice.”

9. fiil Alternative spelling of vise (“to hold or squeeze with a vice”).

   “Camillo. As he had ſeen’t, or beene an Instrument / To vice you to't, that you haue toucht his Queene / Forbiddenly.”

10. sıfat in place of; subordinate to; designating a person below another in rank

    “vice president”

11. edat Instead of; in place of; versus.

    “He was gardener and out-door man, vice Upton, resigned.”

12. isim 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 […]”

13. özel isim A surname.