slice

slice

a relatively thin, broad piece cut from an object having some bulk or volume: a slice of apple
a part, portion, or share: a slice of one's earnings
any of various implements with a flat, broad blade, as a spatula
1. the path of a hit ball that curves away to the right from a right-handed player or to the left from a left-handed player
2. a ball that follows such a path
3. a tendency to hit a ball in this manner

Origin of slice

Middle English from Old French esclice from esclicier, to slice from Frankish slizzan, akin to slit

transitive verb

sliced, slic′ing

to cut into slices
1. to cut off as in a slice or slices: often with off, from, away, etc.
2. to cut across or through like a knife
to separate into parts or shares: sliced up the profits
to use a slice (noun) to spread, remove, etc.
to hit (a ball) in a slice (noun)
to hit (the ball) with a downward sweep of the racket

to cut (through) like a knife: a plow slicing through the earth
1. to be hit in a slice (noun)
2. to hit a ball in a slice (noun)

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noun

a. A thin broad piece cut from a larger object: ate a slice of cheese; examined a slice of the diseased lung.
b. An often wedge-shaped piece cut from a larger, usually circular object: ordered a slice of pie; shared a slice of pizza.
A portion or share: a slice of the profits.
a. A knife with a broad, thin, flexible blade, used for cutting and serving food.
b. A similar implement for spreading printing ink.
Sports
a. The course of a ball that curves in the direction of the dominant hand of the player propelling it, as to the right of a right-handed player.
b. A stroke that causes a ball to follow such a course: a golfer with a bad slice.
c. A ball propelled on such a course.
d. A stroke, as in tennis, in which the ball is struck with a downward motion with the open face of the racket in order to impart backspin.

verb

sliced, slic·ing, slic·es

verb

transitive

To cut or divide into slices: slice a loaf of bread.
To cut from a larger piece: slice off a piece of salami.
To cut through or move through with an action like cutting: “where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire” ( Robert Frost )
To divide into portions or shares; parcel out: “With mortgage securitisation, a pool of home loans is sliced into tranches bearing different degrees of risk” ( David Shirreff )
To reduce or remove from a larger amount or entity: sliced 10 percent off the asking price.
Sports To hit (a ball) with a slice.

verb

intransitive

To make a cut with a cutting implement: I sliced into the cake.
To move like a knife: The destroyer sliced through the water.
Sports To hit a ball with a slice.

Origin of slice

Middle English sclice splinter from Old French esclice from esclicier to splinter of Germanic origin

Related Forms:

slice′a·ble
adjective

slic′er
noun

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Noun

(plural slices)

That which is thin and broad.
A thin, broad piece cut off.
a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread
amount
A piece of pizza.
(UK) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.
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.
(printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
(golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
(Australia, New Zealand) A class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
(medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
(falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)

Verb

(third-person singular simple present slices, present participle slicing, simple past and past participle sliced)

To cut into slices.
Slice the cheese thinly.
To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
The knife left sliced his arm.
(golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
(soccer)
To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.

Origin

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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