slice
See also: Slice and slicé
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(key): /slaɪs/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aɪs
Noun
slice (plural slices)
- That which is thin and broad.
- A thin, broad piece cut off.
- 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.
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- 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.
- 2010, Andrea Renzoni, Eric Renzoni, Fuhgeddaboudit! (page 22)
- (Britain) 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
- (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
- galley slice
- home slice
- hyperslice
- interslice
- it's been a slice
- microslice
- midslice
- minislice
- orthoslice
- slice bar
- slice category
- slice of life
- slice of the pie
- subslice
- timeslice, time slice
- vanilla slice
- white Christmas slice
Translations
thin, broad piece cut off
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a section of image taken of an internal organ
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golf shot
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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 utilizing 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.
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- (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
to cut into slices
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(golf) to hit a shot that travels to one side
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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(key): /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 (lakízō, “to tear apart”).[1]
Noun
slice m (nominative plural slici)
- shell
Inflection
| Masculine io-stem | |||
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| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | slice | sliceL | sliciL |
| Vocative | slici | sliceL | sliciu |
| Accusative | sliceN | sliceL | sliciuH |
| Genitive | sliciL | sliceL | sliceN |
| Dative | sliciuL | slicib | slicib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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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