# slice
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English sclise, sklise, 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 *slitjaną, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to split, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyd- (“to rend, injure, crumble”). Akin to Old High German sliz, gisliz (“a tear, rip”), Old High German slīzan (“to tear”), Old English slītan (“to split up”), modern French éclisse. More at slite, slit.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /slaɪs/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪs

### Noun

slice (plural slices)
* That which is thin and broad.
** 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:I pulled in hand over hand on the cord, and when I judged myself near enough, rose at infinite risk to about half my height and thus commanded the roof and a slice of the interior of the cabin.
* A thin, broad piece cut off.
    Synonyms: cutting, snippet; see also Thesaurus:piece
    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.
** 2010 December 28, Owen Phillips, “Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool”, in BBC‎:Blackpool, chasing a seventh win in 17 league matches, simply could not contain Sunderland's rampant attack and had to resort to a combination of last-ditch defending, fine goalkeeping and a large slice of fortune.
* A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.
** 2010, Andrea Renzoni, Eric Renzoni, Fuhgeddaboudit!, page 22:For breakfast, lunch, or dinner, the best Guido meal is a slice and a Coke.
* (British) 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.
    Synonyms: banana ball, banana slice
* (cricket) A kind of cut shot where the bat makes an obtuse angle with the batter.
* (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
* fried slice
* galley slice
* hedgehog slice
* home slice
* hyperslice
* interslice
* it's been a slice
* jumbo slice
* microslice
* midslice
* minislice
* Napoleon slice
* orthoslice
* slice bar
* slice category
* slice knot
* slice of life
* slice of the cake
* slice of the pie
* slice shop
* subslice
* timeslice, time slice
* vanilla slice
* white Christmas slice

#### Translations

Arabic: شريحة f
Belarusian: лу́ста f (lústa), скрыль m (skrylʹ), скі́ба f (skíba)
Bulgarian: фили́я (bg) n (filíja), ре́зен (bg) m (rézen)
Catalan: llesca (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 片 (yue) (pin$^3$)
Mandarin: 片 (zh) (piàn)
Czech: krajíc (cs) m (of bread), plátek (cs) m (of ham)
Danish: skive (da) c
Dutch: plak (nl) n, schijf (nl) n, snee (nl)
Egyptian: (fdq)
Esperanto: tranĉaĵo
Estonian: viilukas, viil
Finnish: viipale (fi)
French: tranche (fr) f, tronçon (fr) m
Galician: rebanda (gl) f, toro (gl) m, tallada f, posta (gl) f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Scheibe (de) f
Greek: φέτα (el) f (féta)
Ancient: τέμαχος n (témakhos)
Hawaiian: please add this translation if you can
Hebrew: פְּרוּסָה f (prusá) (of bread), נֵתַח (he) m (nétaḥ), פֶּלַח (he) m (pélaḥ) (of fruit)
Hungarian: szelet (hu), karéj (hu) (of bread)
Icelandic: sneið f
Ido: loncho (io)
Ingrian: pytky
Irish: slis f
Italian: fetta (it) f, trancio (it) m
Japanese: 切れ (ja) (きれ, kire), 一片 (ja) (いっぺん, ippen), スライス (ja) (suraisu)
Korean: 부분 (ko) (bubun), 몫 (ko) (mok), 슬라이스 (seullaiseu)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: قاش (qaş)
Lao: ປ່ຽງ (pīang), ແຜ່ນບາງໆ (phǣn bāng bāng)
Latvian: rika (lv) f
Lithuanian: riekė̃ (lt) f (of bread)
Malay: hiris (ms), potong (ms) (as measure words); hirisan (ms), potongan (ms)
Maori: kōripi, topenga
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norman: tranche f
Persian: قاچ (fa) (qâč), تیکه (fa) (tikke), لزگه (fa) (lazge), کرچ (fa) (karč)
Polish: (2) plaster m, plasterek m; kromka f (of bread), pajda f (of bread); (3) kawałek m;
Portuguese: fatia (pt)
Rarotongan: kōtipi
Romanian: felie (ro) f
Russian: ломо́ть (ru) m (lomótʹ), ло́мтик (ru) m (lómtik), кусо́к (ru) m (kusók), кусо́чек (ru) m (kusóček), слайс (ru) m (slajs)
Samoan: fasi
Scottish Gaelic: sliseag f
Serbo-Croatian: kriška (sh) f
Sicilian: feḍḍa f, pezzu (scn) m
Slovene: rezina
Spanish: rebanada (es) f, lonja (es) f, loncha (es) f, rodaja (es) (circular)
Swahili: slesi
Swedish: skiva (sv) c
Tahitian: tipi
Thai: ชิ้น (th) (chín)
Tongan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: dilim (tr)
Ukrainian: ски́ба f (skýba), ски́бка f (skýbka), шмато́к m (šmatók), кусо́к m (kusók)
Vietnamese: lát mỏng, miếng mỏng
Welsh: tafell f :

### 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 using 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.
** 2011 October 22, Sam Sheringham, “Aston Villa 1 – 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport‎:Chris Brunt sliced the spot-kick well wide but his error was soon forgotten as Olsson headed home from a corner.
* (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

* any way one slices it
* no matter how one slices it
* no matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney
* salami-slice
* sliceable
* slice and dice
* sliced bread
* slice off
* slicer
* slice the pie
* slice through
* slice up
* slow slicing

#### Translations
### Adjective

slice (not comparable)
* (mathematics) Having the properties of a slice knot.

### Anagrams

* -sicle, Celis, ILECs, Leics, Sicel, ceils, ciels, clies, sicle

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /slajs/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

slice
* inflection of slicer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

## Old Irish
### Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sleggio, from *sleg, from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, strike, throw”). See also Ancient Greek λᾰκίζω (lăkízō, “to tear apart”).

### Noun

slice m (nominative plural slici)
* shell

#### Inflection

* $^H$ = triggers aspiration
* $^L$ = triggers lenition
* $^N$ = triggers nasalization

#### Derived terms

* slicén

#### Descendants

* Irish: slige
* Manx: shlig
* Scottish Gaelic: slige

### References

* ↑ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “slice”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN, page slige