slice
slice - English
Pronunciation
- IPA: /slaɪs/
Noun
slice (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
- Jim was munching on a slice of toast.
- (colloquial) An amount of anything.
- A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.
- (Britain) 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, UK) Any of 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.)
- (programming) A contiguous portion of an array.
Derived terms
- bit slice
- cake slice
- caramel slice
- cream slice
- custard slice
- egg slice
- fish slice
- galley slice
- home slice
- hyperslice
- interslice
- it's been a slice
- microslice
- midslice
- minislice
- orthoslice
- slice bar
- slice category
- slice of life
- slice of the pie
- subslice
- timeslice, time slice
- vanilla slice
- white Christmas slice
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Verb
slice (third-person singular simple present slices, present participle slicing, simple past and past participle sliced)
- (transitive) To cut into slices.
- Slice the cheese thinly.
- (transitive) To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
- The knife left sliced his arm.
- (transitive) To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
- (transitive, badminton) To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
- (transitive, golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
- (transitive, rowing) To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
- (transitive, tennis) To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
Derived terms
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Adjective
slice (not comparable)
- (mathematics) Having the properties of a slice knot.
Anagrams
slice - French
Pronunciation
- IPA: /slajs/
Verb
slice
- inflection of slicer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
slice - Old Irish
Noun
slice m (nominative plural slici)
Inflection
Masculine io-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | slice | sliceL | sliciL |
Vocative | slici | sliceL | sliciu |
Accusative | sliceN | sliceL | sliciuH |
Genitive | sliciL | sliceL | sliceN |
Dative | sliciuL | slicib | slicib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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