Slice Definition

slīs

sliced, slices, slicing

noun

slices

A relatively thin, broad piece cut from an object having some bulk or volume.

A slice of apple.

Webster's New World

An often wedge-shaped piece cut from a larger, usually circular object.

Ordered a slice of pie; shared a slice of pizza.

American Heritage

A part, portion, or share.

A slice of one's earnings.

Webster's New World

Any of various implements with a flat, broad blade, as a spatula.

Webster's New World

A similar implement for spreading printing ink.

American Heritage

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Antonyms:
whole

verb

sliced, slices, slicing

To cut into slices.

Webster's New World

To be hit in a slice.

Webster's New World

To cut off as in a slice or slices.

Webster's New World

To cut across or through like a knife.

Webster's New World

To separate into parts or shares.

Sliced up the profits.

Webster's New World

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unite
combine

idiom

any way

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

American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Slice

Noun

Singular:

slice

Plural:

slices

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Slice

any way

Origin of Slice

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.

From Wiktionary
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