Vice vs Chuck - What's the difference?
vice | chuck |
A bad habit.
(legal) Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs.
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.
* From the case of Scholefield v. Robb (1839).
A mechanical screw apparatus used for clamping or holding (also spelled vise).
A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
(obsolete) A grip or grasp.
* 1597 , , II. I. 22:
To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice.
* 1610 , , I. ii. 416:
* De Quincey
in place of; subordinate to; designating a person below another in rank
instead of, in place of
(cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
* 1975 , Thomas Fabbricante, William J. Sultan, Practical Meat Cutting and Merchandising: Beef ,
* 2001 , Bruce Aidells, Denis Kelly, The Complete Meat Cookbook: A Juicy and Authoritative Guide , page 190:
* 2006 , , The Meat Buyers Guide: Beef, Lamb, Veal, Pork, and Poultry ,
(mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.
* 1824 , Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain), Transactions , Volume 42,
* 1912 , Fred Herbert Colvin, Frank Arthur Stanley, American Machinist Grinding Book ,
* 2003', Julie K. Petersen, “'''chuck ”, entry in ''Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary ,
* 2008 , Ramon Francis Bonaquist, NHCRP Report 614: Refining the Simple Performance Tester for Use in Routine Practice ,
(dialect, obsolete) A chicken, a hen.
A clucking sound.
* 1998 , Scott Freeman, Jon C. Herron, Evolutionary Analysis ,
(slang) A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
* Shakespeare
A gentle touch or tap.
(informal) A casual throw.
(slang) An act of vomiting.
(cricket, informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
To make a clucking sound.
To call, as a hen her chickens.
To touch or tap gently.
(informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
(informal) To discard, to throw away.
(slang) To vomit.
(cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
(South Africa, slang, intransitive) To leave; to depart; to bounce.
(obsolete) To chuckle; to laugh.
To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
* 1976 August, Sylvia Bashline, Woodchucks Are Tablefare Too'', '' ,
In lang=en terms the difference between vice and chuck
is that vice is any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs while chuck is an act of vomiting.In obsolete terms the difference between vice and chuck
is that vice is a grip or grasp while chuck is to chuckle; to laugh.As nouns the difference between vice and chuck
is that vice is a bad habit while chuck is meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.As verbs the difference between vice and chuck
is that vice is to hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice while chuck is to make a clucking sound.As an adjective vice
is in place of; subordinate to; designating a person below another in rank.As a preposition vice
is instead of, in place of.As a proper noun Chuck is
a diminutive of the male given name Charles, of mostly American usage.vice
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Smoking is a vice , not a virtue.
Antonyms
* (bad habit) virtueDerived terms
* vice squadSee also
* habitEtymology 2
From (etyl) ; akin to English withy.Alternative forms
* vise (US)Noun
(en noun)- Fang. An I but fist him once; an a’ come but within my vice ,–
Verb
(vic)- Camillo. As he had seen’t, or been an instrument / To vice you to't, that you have touched his queen / Forbiddenly
- The coachman's hand was viced between his upper and lower thigh.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) , ablative form of vicis.Adjective
vice (no comparative or superlative)- vice president
- vice admiral
Derived terms
* vice admiral * vice governor * vice mayor * vice presidentPreposition
(head)- A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned.
chuck
English
Etymology 1
Variant of chock.Noun
(en noun)page 141,
- Arm chucks represent approximately 54% of the beef forequarters.
- Often, pieces of the chuck are sold boneless as flat chunks of meat or rolled and tied.
page 113,
- The chucks' are that portion of foresaddle remaining after excluding the hotel rack and plate portions of the breast as described in Item No. 306. The veal foreshanks (Item No. 312) and brisket may either be attached or separated and packaged with the ' chucks .
page 88,
- I have had a chuck' of this kind made in brass with the cones of iron, but it is cumbrous and expensive, and does not answer so well, owing to the surface of the iron offering less resistance to the work turning within it. This, perhaps, might be remedied by roughing; but I think the ' chuck is much better in wood, as it can be made by any common turner at a trifling expense, and possesses more strength than can possibly be required.
page 322,
- Iron and steel in contact with magnets retain some of the magnetism, which is sometimes more or less of a nuisance in getting small work off the chucks .
page 181,
- A fiber optic splicing device may be equipped with V-grooves or chucks' to hold the two pieces of fiber optic filament to be spliced. If it has '''chucks''', they are typically either clamping '''chucks''' or vacuum ' chucks .
page 30,
- The first step in preparing a test specimen with the FlexPrepTM is to secure the gyratory specimen in the chuck of the machine.
Etymology 2
Onomatopoeic dialect term for chicken, imitative of a hen's cluck.Noun
(en noun)page 604,
- The call always starts with a whine, to which the males add from 0 to 6 chucks'. In choice tests, females approach calls that contain '''chucks''' in preference to calls that contain no ' chucks .
- Are you all right, chuck ?
- Pray, chuck , come hither.
- She gave him an affectionate chuck under the chin.
Verb
(en verb)- (Dryden)
- Chuck that magazine to me, would you?
- This food?s gone off - you?d better chuck it.
- Let's chuck .
- (Marston)
Derived terms
* chuck a charley * chuck a wobbly * chuck in * chuck up * upchuckEtymology 3
From woodchuck.Alternative forms
* 'chuckNoun
(en noun)page 50,
- Chucks' are plentiful, and most farmers are glad to have the incurable diggers kept at tolerable population levels. For some reason, my family didn?t eat ' ?chucks . Few families in the area did.