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Clamp vs. Vice — What's the Difference?

Clamp vs. Vice — What's the Difference?

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Clamp

Any of various devices used to join, grip, support, or compress mechanical or structural parts.

Vice

A vice is a practice, behaviour, or habit generally considered immoral, sinful, criminal, rude, taboo, depraved, degrading, deviant or perverted in the associated society. In more minor usage, vice can refer to a fault, a negative character trait, a defect, an infirmity, or a bad or unhealthy habit.

Clamp

Any of various tools with opposing, often adjustable sides or parts for bracing objects or holding them together.

Vice

A practice or habit considered to be evil, degrading, or immoral
The vices of smoking and drinking.

Clamp

To fasten, grip, or support with or as if with a clamp.
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Vice

Wicked or depraved conduct or habits; corruption
"sharpers, desperadoes, pirates, and criminals steeped in vice" (Carl Holliday).

Clamp

To establish by authority; impose
Clamped a tax on imports.

Vice

Prostitution, the sale of illegal drugs, and certain other forms of usually nonviolent criminal behavior.

Clamp

A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together.

Vice

A slight personal failing; a foible
The vice of untidiness.

Clamp

(medicine) An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc.

Vice

A flaw or imperfection; a defect
"Lady Hester remarked on the vice in his looks" (Edna O'Brien).

Clamp

(UK) A parking enforcement device used to immobilise a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.

Vice

Vice A character representing generalized or particular vice in English morality plays.

Clamp

A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal coking.

Vice

A jester or buffoon.

Clamp

A pile of agricultural produce such as root vegetables or silage stored under a layer of earth or an airtight sheet.

Vice

Variant of vise.

Clamp

A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard.

Vice

In place of; replacing
Ms. Fine acted as treasurer, vice Mr. Smith.

Clamp

(electronics) An electronic circuit that fixes either the positive or the negative peak excursions of a signal to a defined value by shifting its DC value.

Vice

A bad habit.
Pride is a vice, not a virtue.
Smoking was a vice Sally picked up in high school.

Clamp

(dated) A heavy footstep; a tramp.

Vice

(legal) Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to weapons, prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, tobacco, or drugs.

Clamp

To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.

Vice

Clip of vice squad

Clamp

(transitive) To hold or grip tightly.

Vice

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.

Clamp

(transitive) To modify (a numeric value) so it lies within a specific range by replacing values outside the range with the closest value within the range.

Vice

(UK) vise

Clamp

To cover (vegetables, etc.) with earth.

Vice

A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.

Clamp

(transitive) To immobilise (a vehicle) by means of a wheel clamp.
I was only parked there for five minutes but my car was still clamped.

Vice

(architecture) A winding or spiral staircase.

Clamp

To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump or clomp.

Vice

(obsolete) A grip or grasp.

Clamp

Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.

Vice

One who acts in place of a superior.

Clamp

An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together.

Vice

Alternative spelling of vise

Clamp

One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising.

Vice

In place of; subordinate to; designating a person below another in rank
Vice president
Vice admiral

Clamp

A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams.

Vice

(dated) instead of, in place of, versus (sense 2)

Clamp

A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal for coking.

Vice

A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.
Withouten vice of syllable or letter.
Mark the vice of the procedure.

Clamp

A mollusk. See Clam.

Vice

A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance.
I do confess the vices of my blood.
Ungoverned appetite . . . a brutish vice.
When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway,The post of honor is a private station.

Clamp

A heavy footstep; a tramp.

Vice

The buffoon of the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice, sometimes of another, or of Vice itself; - called also Iniquity.
How like you the Vice in the play? . . . I would not give a rush for a Vice that has not a wooden dagger to snap at everybody.

Clamp

To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp.

Vice

A kind of instrument for holding work, as in filing. Same as Vise.

Clamp

To cover, as vegetables, with earth.

Vice

A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.

Clamp

To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump.
The policeman with clamping feet.

Vice

A gripe or grasp.

Clamp

A device (used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together

Vice

To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice.
The coachman's hand was viced between his upper and lower thigh.

Clamp

Fasten or fix with a clamp;
Clamp the chair together until the glue has hardened

Vice

In the place of; in the stead; as, A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned.

Clamp

Impose or inflict forcefully;
The military government clamped a curfew onto the capital

Vice

Denoting one who in certain cases may assume the office or duties of a superior; designating an officer or an office that is second in rank or authority; as, vice president; vice agent; vice consul, etc.

Vice

Moral weakness

Vice

A specific form of evildoing;
Vice offends the moral standards of the community

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