slice
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
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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 slīȥan (“to tear”), Old English slītan (“to split up”), modern French éclisse. More at slite, slit.
Inflected forms:
form: slices
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: slices
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slicing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sliced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sliced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: That which is thin and broad.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A thin, broad piece cut off.
pos: noun
examples: a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread
Jim was munching on a slice of toast.
gloss: An amount of anything.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: 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.
gloss: A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.
pos: noun
examples: For breakfast, lunch, or dinner, the best Guido meal is a slice and a Coke.
gloss: A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.
gloss: A broad, thin piece of plaster.
pos: noun
gloss: A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
pos: noun
gloss: A salver, platter, or tray.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
pos: noun
gloss: A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
pos: noun
gloss: A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of cut shot where the bat makes an obtuse angle with the batter.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
gloss: A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
pos: noun
gloss: A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
pos: noun
gloss: A contiguous portion of an array.
pos: noun
gloss: To cut into slices.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Slice the cheese thinly.
gloss: To cut with an edge using a drawing motion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The knife left sliced his arm.
How could it all be / We've never been dead / But never awake from this dream / How could it all be / We've never been dead / Just mirrors running scared / Slicing wrists while we look for our own mortality / All the lights went out cold / Shadow covers the soul / Essence of the world made ceremonial / Now we all wait for the demise / What was the question? / Why do you need an answer? / You make me nauseous
gloss: To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Chris Brunt sliced the spot-kick well wide but his error was soon forgotten as Olsson headed home from a corner.
gloss: To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Having the properties of a slice knot.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: 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
multislice
nanoslice
Napoleon slice
orthoslice
slice bar
slice category
slice knot
slice of life
slice of the cake
slice of the pie
slice shop
slicewise
subslice
superslice
timeslice
time slice
vanilla slice
vibroslice
white Christmas slice
any way one slices it
cryoslice
misslice
no matter how one slices it
no matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney
preslice
reslice
salami-slice
sliceability
sliceable
slice and dice
sliced bread
slice off
slicer
slicery
slice the pie
slice through
slice up
slow slicing
unslice
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