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Definition of Slice

1. Verb. Make a clean cut through. "Slit her throat"

2. Noun. A share of something. "A slice of the company's revenue"

3. Verb. Hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction.

4. Noun. A serving that has been cut from a larger portion. "A slice of bread"

5. Verb. Cut into slices. "The chefs slice the vegetables"; "Slice the salami, please"

6. Noun. A wound made by cutting. "He put a bandage over the cut"

7. Verb. Hit a ball so that it causes a backspin.

8. Noun. A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer. "He took lessons to cure his slicing"

9. Noun. A thin flat piece cut off of some object.

10. Noun. A spatula for spreading paint or ink.

Definition of Slice

1. n. A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.

2. v. t. To cut into thin pieces, or to cut off a thin, broad piece from.

3. v. t. To hit (the ball) so that the face of the club draws across the face of the ball and deflects it.

Definition of Slice

1. Noun. That which is thin and broad. ¹

2. Noun. A thin, broad piece cut off. ¹

3. Noun. amount ¹

4. Noun. A piece of pizza. ¹

5. Noun. (British) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling. ¹

6. Noun. A broad, thin piece of plaster. ¹

7. Noun. A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink. ¹

8. Noun. A salver, platter, or tray. ¹

9. Noun. 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. ¹

10. Noun. One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching. ¹

11. Noun. A removable sliding bottom to galley. ¹

12. Noun. (golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw ¹

13. Noun. (Australia NZ) A class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices. ¹

14. Noun. (medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray. ¹

15. Noun. (falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.) ¹

16. Noun. A piece of vegan imitation cheese. ¹

17. Verb. To cut into slices. ¹

18. Verb. (golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player). ¹

19. Verb. (soccer) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Slice

1. to cut into thin, flat pieces [v SLICED, SLICING, SLICES]

Medical Definition of Slice

1. 1. A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread. 2. That which is thin and broad, like a slice. Specifically: A broad, thin piece of plaster. A salver, platter, or tray. A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink. 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. A removable sliding bottom to galley. Slice bar, a kind of fire iron resembling a poker, with a broad, flat end, for stirring a fire of coals, and clearing it and the grate bars from clinkers, ashes, etc.; a slice. Origin: OE. Slice, sclice, OF. Esclice, from esclicier, esclichier, to break to pieces, of German origin; cf. OHG. Slizan to split, slit, tear, G. Schleissen to slit. See Slit. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slice

sleuthhounds sleuthing sleuths sleuthy slew slew rate slewed slewest slewing slews

slewth sley sleyed sleying sleys slice (current term) slice and dice slice bar slice category slice into

slice through slice up sliceable sliced sliced and diced sliced bread slicer slicers slices slices and dices

Literary usage of Slice

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mining Engineers' Handbook by Robert Peele (1918)
"Stripping retreats Т te cn>*cats В and С, and the I repeated in contiguous slice- I the pillar is mined out. Ore Ы crosscuts В and С. at D and £, sa final ..."

2. Molecular Neurobiology: Proceedings of the 2nd NIMH Conference by Steven Zalcman (1995)
"To address this problem we have begun using a mini-slice preparation in which the CAI region is microdissected from a typical hippo- campal slice. ..."

3. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1850)
"Then, too, after the furrow-slice has reached the perpendicular position, there is not force enough in the mould-board to compel the slice to go over to its ..."

4. Reviews in Environmental Health (1998): Toxicological Defense Mechanics edited by Gary E. R. Hook, George W. Lucier (2000)
"Organotypic slice cultures retain, at least for a limited period of time, important organizational features of the original tissue and allow for the ..."

5. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"I found that the mice had dragged the slice of bread underneath the locked door and that the dog had thus got at it and eaten part equal to about one-sixth ..."

6. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1913)
"Radiograph of a cross slice, 7 mm. thick, of the uterus and myomata; ... Radiograph of the upper slice of the specimen, showing the dilated venous channels ..."

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