vise

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1. vise - Noun

2. vise - Verb

3. Vise - Proper noun

Meaning

An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing.

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.

To examine and indorse, as a passport; to visa.

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What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise. The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden. William James

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don't read a book out of its right time for you. Doris Lessing

I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me. Rodney King

Edelstein was caught in a political vise, between Likud’s anger on the one hand and a threat from Blue and White to oust him from the speakership on the other, if he failed to order the plenum convened. Source: Internet

Or they are strapped on tables with some body part clamped into a vise for an invasive needle. Source: Internet

I bought a lens vise from Ebay for $40, used it to fix the bent filter thread of my lens (took like 10 minutes) and then sold it, with no loss, on Amazon. Source: Internet

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