slice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slaɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Forms: form: slices
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.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
glosses: That which is thin and broad.
examples: text: a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread
text: Jim was munching on a slice of toast.
synonyms: word: cutting
word: snippet
word: bit
word: chip
word: chunk
word: clip
word: crumb
word: crumbling
word: cutting
word: flake
word: fleak
word: fragment
word: hunk
word: lump
word: mammock
word: ort
word: piece
word: piecemeal
word: portion
word: scrap
word: scraplet
word: slice
word: snead
word: snippet
word: steck
glosses: A thin, broad piece cut off.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2010 December 28, Owen Phillips, “Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool”, in BBC:
glosses: An amount of anything.
examples: text: For breakfast, lunch, or dinner, the best Guido meal is a slice and a Coke.
ref: 2010, Andrea Renzoni, Eric Renzoni, Fuhgeddaboudit!, page 22:
glosses: A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.
examples: text: I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.
glosses: A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
glosses: A broad, thin piece of plaster.
glosses: A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
glosses: A salver, platter, or tray.
glosses: 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.
glosses: One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: banana ball
banana slice
glosses: A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A kind of cut shot where the bat makes an obtuse angle with the batter.
glosses: Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: 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