vice
US: /ˈvaɪs/
English Vietnamese dictionary
vice /vais/
- danh từ
- thói xấu, nết xấu, thói hư tật xấu
- sự truỵ lạc, sự đồi bại
- a city sunk in vices: một thành phố chìm đắm trong cảnh truỵ lạc
- chứng, tật (ngựa)
- thiếu sót, tật
- a vice of style: chỗ thiếu sót trong cách hành văn
- a vice of constitution: tật về thể chất
- danh từ
- (thông tục) (viết tắt) của vice-president, vice-chancellor...
- (thông tục) (viết tắt) của vice-president, vice-chancellor...
- danh từ
- (kỹ thuật) mỏ cặp, êtô
- as firm as a vice: chắc như đinh
- (kỹ thuật) mỏ cặp, êtô
- ngoại động từ
- (kỹ thuật) kẹp bằng êtô['vaisi]
- (kỹ thuật) kẹp bằng êtô['vaisi]
- giới từ
- thay cho, thế cho
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
1 [U] criminal activities that involve sex or drugs: plain-clothes detectives from the vice squad
2 [U, C] evil or immoral behaviour; an evil or immoral quality in sb's character: The film ended most satisfactorily:
vice punished and virtue rewarded. + Greed is a terrible vice. + (humorous) Cigarettes are my only vice.
3 (BrE) (AmE vise) [C] a tool with two metal blocks that can be moved together by turning a screw. The vice is used to hold an object firmly while work is done on it: He held my arm in a vice-like (= very firm) grip.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 immorality, corruption, evil, badness, depravity, degradation, degeneracy, iniquity, villainy, venality, evil-doing, wickedness, profligacy, sin, sinfulness, transgression:
She described the town as a den of indecency, exhibitionism, and vice.
2 flaw, defect, fault, imperfection, blemish, shortcoming, failing, weakness, frailty, foible, infirmity, deficiency:
Rejection without due consideration is a prejudicial vice of editors.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
secret
VERB + VICE
indulge (in)
He used his inheritance to indulge his vices of drinking and gambling.
Concise English dictionary
vicesvaɪs
noun
+moral weakness
+a specific form of evildoing
