What's the difference between vile and vise?

Vile


Definition:

  • (superl.) Low; base; worthless; mean; despicable.
  • (superl.) Morally base or impure; depraved by sin; hateful; in the sight of God and men; sinful; wicked; bad.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Those behind it have once again taken the law into their own hands and dispensed a vile form of rough justice.
  • (2) The deputy prime minister branded the treatment meted out to the four-year-old by his mother, Magdelena Luczak, and stepfather, Mariusz Krezolek, as evil and vile, but suggested it was up to the whole of society to stop such tragedies.
  • (3) Charlie Morris described the column as "vile and disgusting", adding that she hoped the writer "gets the sack".
  • (4) In China, where the Communist party has always determined which news is fit to print, authorities have ordered internet portals to abandon original reporting on political or social topics because of its “ extremely vile effect ”.
  • (5) The massacre was not committed by "the Poles" against "the Jews", but was a vile crime committed by specific individuals.
  • (6) Daryush 'Roosh V' Valizadeh cancels neo-masculinist meetings over safety Read more Roosh and company encountered such uniform hostility because their views are ostentatiously vile.
  • (7) Much porn is samey and some is utterly vile, full of torture, faeces, urine, vomit and blood and the utter degradation of women who become nothing but a series of orifices.
  • (8) Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn claimed the results so far illustrated that the Conservatives’ “vile campaign” had backfired .
  • (9) This whole vile outpouring may just be par for the course in the wilds of social media.
  • (10) I did, though, have my suspicions that the perpetrator of this vile assault was Dolge Orlick, Joe's journeyman apprentice.
  • (11) The description “whorephobic” is usually reserved for feminists who speak or campaign against the liberalisation of the laws on sex work, who dream of a world where this huge, vile industry doesn’t exist.
  • (12) It is true in both cases that secrecy helps to protect some truly vile criminals, terrorists and paedophiles.
  • (13) It was not that he could not play good guys; rather that he excelled at locating the virtues in the apparently vile.
  • (14) Jowell said: "Harriet Harman would have nothing to do with the vile rubbish of an organisation like PIE," adding: "I don't want anyone to think this present frenzy about Harriet, the NCCL and the Daily Mail attack on her is in any way explained by that was then and this is now."
  • (15) Last year the country's most senior judge said only "extremely vile criminals" were executed in 2007 as a result of "kill fewer, kill carefully" reforms that gave the supreme court the right to overturn capital sentences handed down by lower courts.
  • (16) You need locking up.” Vardy posted a screenshot of the threats with the words “shocking and vile”.
  • (17) "That is why I believe George Osborne's calculated decision to use the shocking and vile crimes of Mick Philpott to advance a political argument is the cynical act of a desperate chancellor.
  • (18) Vile stuff – but the Nazi attitude to modern art may have been radically misunderstood.
  • (19) "They will not further any aim or objective by their vile and callous deeds.
  • (20) Vile returned to Philadelphia and enrolled at a community college.

Vise


Definition:

  • (n.) An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing.
  • (n.) An indorsement made on a passport by the proper authorities of certain countries on the continent of Europe, denoting that it has been examined, and that the person who bears it is permitted to proceed on his journey; a visa.
  • (v. t.) To examine and indorse, as a passport; to visa.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For rapid and fairly consistent splitting, a vise to the jaws of which triangular metal files have been welded has been found useful.
  • (2) In addition, most patients exhibited a marked shift from abnormal to normal platelet aggregation or vise-versa within a short time period.
  • (3) These results could not be interpreted on the basis of shift of 5 monodeiodinase to 5' form or vise versa, and imply that the two deionative process may be independent each other.
  • (4) The teeth were reproducibly repositioned in a bench-vise, where a profilometer repeatedly measured root surface levels at the same location.
  • (5) Thus, the action of the bisintercalating drug may be compared to a vise clamping the inner base pairs.
  • (6) A miniature vise built into a copper stub is described that holds bulk, pre-frozen, hydrated biological specimens during examination under the electron beam of the scanning electron microscope.
  • (7) The technique using the transfer vise is compared to other existing techniques, and its advantages and limitations are discussed.
  • (8) A recently developed vise for gluing ceramic cross-section specimens is described, and some examples of the effect of glue thickness on specimen quality are shown.
  • (9) Neurones which increased their firing rate during phrenic nerve activity tend to respond with decrease discharge to passive chest inflation, and vise versa.
  • (10) Professor Roger Jones, Professorial Research Fellow in the Victoria Institute of Strategic Economic Studies (VISES) at Victoria University “The perfect storm of stupidity.
  • (11) It has been established that the main features of the laminar picture of the maxillary sinuses can be determined by two main properties of tomography as a method: the possibility to lead the portions of the sinus osseous walls of greater-length as compared with conventional roentgenography out to the edge-forming zone due to oblique course of the ray beam, and vise versa, disappearance of outlines of these walls in those sections where they are considerably inclined in relation to the roentgen film plane.
  • (12) Teeth to be split were grooved on their opposing external surfaces and were then cracked open between the file blades upon application of pressure by the vise.
  • (13) The transfer vise and its technique are recommended for the routine treatment of fixed and removable prosthodontic patients.
  • (14) In group II (n = 20) the dogs were decapitated by means of a specially designed neck vise.
  • (15) In addition to its known influence on calcium exchange it gives vise to an analgesic effect within the central nervous system and this follows systemic administration or after bolus intrathecal injection.
  • (16) The transfer vise, a new instrument that is used for the adjustment of articulators, is described.
  • (17) The frozen pulps were removed with the help of a screw vise and analysed for ATP, ADP and AMP contents and Ca2+ and Mg2+-ATPases activities.
  • (18) A modified vise allowing easy handling and safe performing of bone grafts is described.
  • (19) Vise-grip pliers were used to twist the nail into a cigar-wrapper shape.
  • (20) Each femur was held in an angle vise that was placed on rollers on a table mounted on the servohydraulic testing machine.

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