slice

See also: Slice and slicé

slice - English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /slaɪs/

Noun

slice (plural slices)

  1. That which is thin and broad.
  2. 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.
  3. (colloquial) An amount of anything.
  4. A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.
  5. (Britain) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
    • I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.
  6. A broad, thin piece of plaster.
  7. A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
  8. A salver, platter, or tray.
  9. 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.
  10. One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
  11. (printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
  12. (golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
  13. (Australia, New Zealand, UK) Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
  14. (medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
  15. (falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
  16. (programming) A contiguous portion of an array.

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Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To cut into slices.
    • Slice the cheese thinly.
  2. (transitive) To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
    • The knife left sliced his arm.
  3. (transitive) To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
  4. (transitive, badminton) To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
  5. (transitive, golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
  6. (transitive, rowing) To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
  7. (transitive, soccer) To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
  8. (transitive, tennis) To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.

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Adjective

slice (not comparable)

  1. (mathematics) Having the properties of a slice knot.

Anagrams

slice - French

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /slajs/

Verb

slice

  1. inflection of slicer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

slice - Old Irish

Noun

slice m (nominative plural slici)

  1. shell

Inflection

Masculine io-stem

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