vise

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• /vaɪs/
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• homophone: vice
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English topographic surname, from Old French deviser (“to split, divide”).

From Middle English vis, vys, vice (“screw”), from Anglo-Norman vyz, vice, from Old French vis (“screw”), from Latin vītis f (“vine”). Probably akin to English withe.

79 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: morsë — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Arabic: مِنْجَلَة (minjala) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Arabic: مِلْزَمَة (milzama) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Armenian: մամլակ (mamlak) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Azerbaijani: məngənə — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Belarusian: ціскі́ (ciskí) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Breton: biñs-taol — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Bulgarian: ме́нгеме (méngeme) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Burmese: ပြုတ်တူ (pruttu) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Catalan: cargol de banc — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Chinese Mandarin: 老虎鉗 /老虎钳 (lǎohǔqián) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Chinese Mandarin: 夾鉗 /夹钳 (jiāqián) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Chinese Mandarin: 虎鉗 /虎钳 (hǔqián) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Chinese Mandarin: 萬力 /万力 (wànlì) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Chinese Mandarin: 臺鉗 /台钳 (táiqián) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Czech: svěrák — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Danish: skruestik — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Danish: skruetvinge — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Dutch: bankschroef — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Esperanto: vajco — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Estonian: kruustangid — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Finnish: ruuvipuristin — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Finnish: ruuvipenkki — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• French: étau — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Georgian: გირაგი (giragi) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• German: Schraubstock — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Greek: μέγγενη (méngeni) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Hebrew: מלחציים \ מֶלְחָצַיִם — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Hindi: बाँक (bā̃k) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Hungarian: satu — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Icelandic: skrúfstykki — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Ido: skrubtenilo — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Ido: skrubmordilo — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Indonesian: ragum — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Ingrian: tiskat — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Irish: bís — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Italian: morsa — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Japanese: 万力 (manriki) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Japanese: バイス (baisu) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Kazakh: іскенже (ıskenje) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Khmer: អង្គំ (ʼɑɑʼɑngkum) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Korean: 바이스 (baiseu) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Kyrgyz: кыскыч (kıskıc) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Lao: ເສືອຂົບເຫລັກ (sư̄a khop lek) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Latvian: spīles — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Lithuanian: spaustuvai — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Macedonian: менгеме (mengeme) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Malay: ragum — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Māori: purimau — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Norwegian Bokmål: skruestikke — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Norwegian Bokmål: skrustikke — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skruestikke — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skrueste — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Plautdietsch: Schruwkjlam — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Polish: imadło — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Portuguese: torno — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Portuguese: morsa — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Romanian: menghină — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Russian: тиски́ (tiskí) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Russian: тисы́ (tisý) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Serbo-Croatian: менгеле — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Serbo-Croatian: mengele — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Slovak: zverák — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Slovene: primež — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Spanish: tornillo de banco — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Spanish: morsa (Arg., Uru.) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Swahili: jiriwa — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Swedish: skruvstäd — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Tagalog: gato — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Tajik: гира (gira) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Tajik: гиро (giro) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Thai: แท่นจับชิ้นงาน — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Thai: ปากกาจับของ — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Turkish: mengene — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Ottoman Turkish: اشكنجه (işkence) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Ukrainian: леща́та (leščáta) — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Uzbek: gira — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Vietnamese: mỏ cặp — two-jawed instrument for holding work
• Vietnamese: ê-tô — two-jawed instrument for holding work