Vice vs Wise - What's the difference?
vice | wise |
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
Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience.
(colloquial) Disrespectful.
To become wise.
(ergative, slang) Usually with "up", to inform or learn.
(archaic) Way, manner, method.
* 1850 , The Burden of Nineveh , lines 2-5
* 1866 , , A Ballad of Life , lines 28-30
* 1926 , J. S. Fletcher, Sea Fog , page 308
(dialectal) to instruct
(dialectal) to advise; induce
(dialectal) to show the way, guide
(dialectal) to direct the course of, pilot
(dialectal) to cause to turn
As nouns the difference between vice and wise
is that vice is a bad habit while wise is way, manner, method.As verbs the difference between vice and wise
is that vice is to hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice while wise is to become wise.As adjectives the difference between vice and wise
is that vice is in place of; subordinate to; designating a person below another in rank while wise is showing good judgement or the benefit of experience.As a preposition vice
is instead of, in place of.As an acronym WISE is
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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.
wise
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) wis, wys, from (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch wijs, German weise, Swedish vis. Compare wit.Adjective
(er)- Storing extra food for the winter was a wise decision.
- They were considered the wise old men of the administration.
- "It is a profitable thing, if one is wise , to seem foolish" - Aeschylus
- Don't get wise with me!
Usage notes
* Objects: person, decision, advice, counsel, saying, etc.Antonyms
* unwise * foolishDerived terms
* crack wise * wisdom * wiseacre * wise apple * wiseass * wisecrack * wise guy * wise-hearted * wiseling * wiselike * wiseness * wizen * wizard * word to the wiseVerb
(wis)- Mo wised him up about his situation.
- ''After Mo had a word with him, he wised up.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- ... the prize
- Dead Greece vouchsafes to living eyes, —
- Her Art for ever in fresh wise
- From hour to hour rejoicing me.
- A riven hood was pulled across his eyes;
- The token of him being upon this wise
- Made for a sign of Lust.
- And within a few minutes the rest of us were on our way too, judiciously instructed by Parkapple and the Brighton official, and disposed of in two taxi-cabs, the drivers of which were ordered to convey us to Rottingdean in such wise that each set his load of humanity at different parts of the village and at the same time that the bus was due to arrive at the hotel.