English Explanatory Dictionary

slice

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. That which is thin and broad.
  2. A thin, broad piece cut off.
  3. An amount of anything.
  4. A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.
  5. A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
  6. A broad, thin piece of plaster.
  7. A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
  8. A salver, platter, or tray.
  9. 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.
  10. One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
  11. A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
  12. A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw.
verb
  1. To cut into slices.
  2. To cut with an edge using a drawing motion.
  3. To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
  4. To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
  5. To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
  6. To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
  7. To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
  8. To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
adj
  1. Having the properties of a slice knot.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/slaɪs/ en-us-slice.ogg en-au-slice.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-slice.wav

Word forms

slice slices slicing sliced

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.

Synonyms

cutting snippet bit chip chunk clip crumb crumbling flake fleak fragment hunk lump mammock ort piece piecemeal portion scrap scraplet slice snead steck banana ball banana slice

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 sliceness
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