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What (who) is slice - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Slice (disambiguation); Slices
slice
I
n.
1) to cut off a slice of
2) a thick; thin slice
II
v.
1) (C) slice a piece of meat for me; or: slice me a piece of meat
2) (d; intr.) to slice into (to slice into the bread)
3) (d; intr.) to slice through (the icebreaker sliced through the ice)
4) (N; used with an adjective) she sliced the bread thin
Slice
·vt A salver, platter, or tray.
II. Slice ·vt A broad, thin piece of plaster.
III. Slice ·vt A removable sliding bottom to galley.
IV. Slice ·vt That which is thin and broad, like a slice.
V. Slice ·vt To cut into parts; to Divide.
VI. Slice ·vt To cut into thin pieces, or to cut off a thin, broad piece from.
VII. Slice ·vt To clear by means of a slice bar, as a fire or the grate bars of a furnace.
VIII. Slice ·vt A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.
IX. Slice ·add. ·vt To hit (the ball) so that the face of the club draws across the face of the ball and deflects it.
X. Slice ·vt One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
XI. Slice ·vt A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
XII. Slice ·vt 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.
slice
(slices, slicing, sliced)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A slice of bread, meat, fruit, or other food is a thin piece that has been cut from a larger piece.
Try to eat at least four slices of bread a day.
...water flavored with a slice of lemon.
N-COUNT: usu with supp, oft N of n
2.
If you slice bread, meat, fruit, or other food, you cut it into thin pieces.
Helen sliced the cake...
Slice the steak into long thin slices.
VERB: V n, V n into n
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I sliced up an onion...
He began slicing the pie up.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P
3.
You can use slice to refer to a part of a situation or activity.
Fiction takes up a large slice of the publishing market.
N-COUNT: usu N of n
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Examples of use of slice
1. Slice the drained halloumi into 5mm–wide pieces, and then cut each slice in half again.
2. When you have to cut off the cat‘s tail, you don‘t do it slice by slice.
3. BB is in danger of becoming not so much a slice of life as a slice of Wetherspoons.
4. Article continues Slice by tiny slice, we are waking up in a society where our traditional freedoms are draining away.
5. There is 1g of fat per slice, but the fibre content is high at around 2g per slice.