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Slice   /slaɪs/   Listen
Slice

noun
1.
A share of something.  Synonym: piece.
2.
A serving that has been cut from a larger portion.  Synonym: piece.  "A slice of bread"
3.
A wound made by cutting.  Synonyms: cut, gash, slash.
4.
A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer.  Synonyms: fade, slicing.
5.
A thin flat piece cut off of some object.
6.
A spatula for spreading paint or ink.
verb
(past & past part. sliced; pres. part. slicing)
1.
Make a clean cut through.  Synonym: slit.
2.
Hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction.
3.
Cut into slices.  Synonym: slice up.
4.
Hit a ball so that it causes a backspin.



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"Slice" Quotes from Famous Books



... to some extent on what you carry to it.—Benjamin Franklin! Be so good as to step up to my chamber and bring me down the small uncovered pamphlet of twenty pages which you will find lying under the "Cruden's Concordance." [The boy took a large bite, which left a very perfect crescent in the slice of bread-and-butter he held, and departed on his errand, with the portable fraction of his breakfast to ...
— The Professor at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)
... window, old Adelbert cut off another slice of sausage with his pocket-knife and sauntered back to his table of opera glasses at the angle of the balustrade. The hurrying figure of the sentry below caught his eye. "Another fool!" he grumbled, looking down. "One would think new legs grew ...
— Long Live the King • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... more than a few hours since you had that wonderful tea with cakes and honey. You must have your proper eating, no matter what comes or goes. What do you say to a slice of cold roast ...
— The Measure of a Man • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... gateway leading to the street on their left, with a stone horse-trough just beyond it, and, on the right, a penthouse shielding a table from the weather. There are forms at the table; and on them are seated a man and a woman, both much down on their luck, finishing a meal of bread [one thick slice each, with margarine and ...
— Major Barbara • George Bernard Shaw
... thought of his sleeping beneath the same roof with Georgy Lenox—of his enjoying that mystical, beautiful experience of coming down every morning to find her at table with her hair freshly curled, to enjoy the felicity of passing her eggs and toast, to carve a slice for her from the joint which the welcome addition of the young man's payment for board allowed Mrs. Lenox to provide for her dinner. Then, too, we felt with a pang that he would receive with his unequalled grace all sorts of little services from the ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. • Various


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