Slice meaning
A portion or share.
A slice of the profits.
noun
To cut or divide into slices.
Slice a loaf of bread.
verb
To cut from a larger piece.
Slice off a piece of salami.
verb
To cut through or move through with an action like cutting.
verb
To divide into portions or shares; parcel out.
verb
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To reduce or remove from a larger amount or entity.
Sliced 10 percent off the asking price.
verb
To hit (a ball) with a slice.
verb
To make a cut with a cutting implement.
I sliced into the cake.
verb
To move like a knife.
The destroyer sliced through the water.
verb
To hit a ball with a slice.
verb
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A relatively thin, broad piece cut from an object having some bulk or volume.
A slice of apple.
noun
A part, portion, or share.
A slice of one's earnings.
noun
Any of various implements with a flat, broad blade, as a spatula.
noun
To cut into slices.
verb
To separate into parts or shares.
Sliced up the profits.
verb
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To hit (the ball) with a downward sweep of the racket.
verb
To cut (through) like a knife.
A plow slicing through the earth.
verb
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A thin, broad piece cut off.
A slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.
noun
One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
noun
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(Australia, New Zealand) A class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
noun
(medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
noun
To cut into slices.
Slice the cheese thinly.
verb
To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
The knife left sliced his arm.
verb
(golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
verb
(soccer)
verb
To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
verb
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any way
- No matter how you look at it; no matter how it is analyzed.
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Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of slice
- Middle English sclice splinter from Old French esclice from esclicier to splinter of Germanic origin
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English slice, esclice, from Old French esclice, esclis (“a piece split off"), deverbal of esclicer, esclicier (“to splinter, split up"), from Frankish *slitjan (“to split up"), from Proto-Germanic *slitjanÄ…, from Proto-Germanic *slÄ«tanÄ… (“to split, tear apart"), from Proto-Indo-European *slaid-, *sled- (“to rend, injure, crumble"). Akin to Old High German sliz, gisliz (“a tear, rip"), Old High German slÄ«zan (“to tear"), Old English slÄ«tan (“to split up"). More at slite, slit.
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