| 单词 | vise |
| 释义 | vise (once / 7032 pages) n If you’re going to be doing a lot of woodworking, you’ll probably need a vise, a tool used to clamp pieces of wood in place while you work on them. The word vise came into English through the French word vis, meaning “screw.” Picture yourself winding a lever that screws the jaws of a vise shut, and you’ll understand what it’s like to operate a vise. Remember to spell the word with an s, as not to confuse it with sound-alike vice, which can refer to a destructive habit that you’d like to break. The two words are unrelated in meaning. WORD FAMILYvise: viselike, vises USAGE EXAMPLESPolitico spoke with several Democratic senators in this supposed political vise and determined that “the Republican strategy may not be far-fetched.” Slate(Dec 16, 2016) Given the Alpine Fault’s setting, in the vise between two converging plates, it must also absorb a large amount of tectonic squeezing. The New Yorker(Nov 15, 2016) Shifting ground now firmly hugs the walls of the building’s basement, squeezing them like a vise and putting the entire wooden structure in jeopardy. Washington Times(Oct 30, 2016) n a holding device attached to a workbench; has two jaws to hold workpiece firmly in place Syn|Hypo|Hyper bench vise machinist's vise, metalworking vise a vise with two parallel iron jaws and a wide opening below shoulder vise, wood vise, woodworking visea vise with jaws that are padded in order to hold lumber without denting it holding device a device for holding something |
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