slice

Plural: slices

Noun

• a share of something
  • "a slice of the company's revenue"
• a serving that has been cut from a larger portion
  • "a slice of bread"
• a wound made by cutting
• a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer
• a thin flat piece cut off of some object
• a spatula for spreading paint or ink
• That which is thin and broad.
• A thin, broad piece cut off.
• An amount of anything.
• A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.
• A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
• A broad, thin piece of plaster.
• A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
• A salver, platter, or tray.
• A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
• One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
• A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
• A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw.
• A kind of cut shot where the bat makes an obtuse angle with the batter.
• Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
• A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
• A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
• A contiguous portion of an array.

Verb

Verb Forms: sliced, slicing, slices

• To cut into thin, flat pieces.
• make a clean cut through
• hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction
• cut into slices
  • "Slice the salami, please"
• hit a ball so that it causes a backspin
• To cut into slices.
• To cut with an edge using a drawing motion.
• To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
• To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
• To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
• To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
• To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
• To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.

Adj

• Having the properties of a slice knot.

Examples

• a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread
• He managed to SLICE his ’J’ into a tiny opening for a massive score on the triple letter.
• I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.
• Jim was munching on a slice of toast.
• Slice the cheese thinly.
• The knife left sliced his arm.

Synonyms

cut, fade, gash, piece, slash, slice up, slicing, slit, banana ball, banana slice, bit, chip, chunk, clip, crumb, crumbling, cutting, flake, fleak, fragment, hunk, lump, mammock, ort, piecemeal, portion, scrap, scraplet, slice, snead, snippet, steck

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