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slice

/slaɪs/
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noun

  • That which is thin and broad.
  • A thin, broad piece cut off.

    "Jim was munching on a slice of toast."

  • An amount of anything.
  • A piece of pizza.
  • 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.
  • A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
  • A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
  • Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
  • A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
  • A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
  • A contiguous portion of an array.

verb

  • To cut into slices.

    "Slice the cheese thinly."

  • To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.

    "The knife left sliced his arm."

  • To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
  • To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
  • To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
  • To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
  • To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
  • To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.

adjective

  • Having the properties of a slice knot.

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