Slice meaning

slīs

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

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

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

To use a slice to spread, remove, etc.

verb

To hit (a ball) in a slice.

verb

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

See Web Slice and slice and dice.

That which is thin and broad.

noun

A thin, broad piece cut off.

A slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.

noun

Amount.

noun

A piece of pizza.

noun

(UK) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.

I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.

noun

A broad, thin piece of plaster.

noun

A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.

noun

A salver, platter, or tray.

noun

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.

noun

One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.

noun

(printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.

noun

(golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw.

noun

(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

(falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)

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

any way

No matter how you look at it; no matter how it is analyzed.

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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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