VISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vise mean? 

• VISE (noun)
  The noun VISE has 1 sense:

1. a holding device attached to a workbench; has two jaws to hold workpiece firmly in place

  Familiarity information: VISE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VISE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A holding device attached to a workbench; has two jaws to hold workpiece firmly in place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bench vise; vise

Hypernyms ("vise" is a kind of...):

holding device (a device for holding something)

Meronyms (parts of "vise"):

jaw (holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vise"):

machinist's vise; metalworking vise (a vise with two parallel iron jaws and a wide opening below)

shoulder vise; wood vise; woodworking vise (a vise with jaws that are padded in order to hold lumber without denting it)

 Context examples 

The NOVA2 KH3 domain interacts with single-stranded RNA; KH3 bound to stem loop RNA resembles a vise, with UCAC held between an invariant Gly-X-X-Gly motif and a variable loop.

(Neuro-Oncological Ventral Antigen 2, NCI Thesaurus)

I held out my hand, and the horrible, soft-spoken, eyeless creature gripped it in a moment like a vise.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)