anglais > français | |
vice | |
1. n. Mauvaise habitude. | |
Smoking is a vice, not a virtue. | |
Fumer est un 'vice', et pas une vertu. | |
2. n. Défaut physique ou faiblesse. | |
3. n. (Droit) Prostitution, mœurs. | |
The Vice Squad is active tonight. | |
La brigade des mœurs est de service ce soir. | |
The vice ring. | |
Réseau de prostitution, réseau mafieux. | |
4. n. (Arts) (UK) Étau ; aussi écrit vise (US). | |
anglais > anglais | |
vice | |
1. n. A bad habit. | |
Gluttony is a vice, not a virtue. | |
2. n. (legal) Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs. | |
3. n. A defect in the temper or behaviour of a horse, such as to make the animal dangerous, to injure its health, or to diminish its usefulness. | |
4. n. A mechanical screw apparatus used for clamping or holding (also spelled vise). | |
5. n. A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements. | |
6. n. (obsolete) A grip or grasp. | |
7. n. (architecture) A winding or spiral staircase. | |
8. v. To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice. | |
9. adj. in place of; subordinate to; designating a person below another in rank | |
vice president | |
vice admiral | |
10. prep. instead of, in place of | |
A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned. | |
français > anglais | |
étau | |
1. n-m. vise (instrument consisting of two jaws for holding work) | |
2. n-m. (figuratively) noose | |
L'étau se resserre. - The noose is tightening.étau se resserre., t=The noose is tightening. | |