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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



... me, but I will slice your liver, Captain Hardy, if you do not make good your words! Where is this treasure you speak of?" "It is not a treasure of gold, but it is a fair maid, which ...
— The Last Galley Impressions and Tales - Impressions and Tales • Arthur Conan Doyle

... better have a slice of ham or an egg, or something with your tea? You can't travel on a mouthful of ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy

... Babbitt. Everything about him was dim except his stomach, and that was a bright scarlet disturbance. "Had too much grub; oughtn't to eat this stuff," he groaned—while he went on eating, while he gulped down a chill and glutinous slice of the ice-cream brick, and cocoanut cake as oozy as shaving-cream. He felt as though he had been stuffed with clay; his body was bursting, his throat was bursting, his brain was hot mud; and only with agony did he continue to ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis

... need not here take a small slice from the landscape, and fence it in from the obtrusions of an uncongenial neighbor, and there cut down his fancies to miniature improvements which a chicken could run over in ten minutes. He may have water and wood and land enough, to dread no incursions on his prospect from some chance ...
— At Home And Abroad - Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe • Margaret Fuller Ossoli

... pretty easily," said Dean angrily. "You put me in the position where, if I don't lend it to you, I'm a sucker—oh, yes, you do. And let me tell you it's no easy thing for me to get hold of three hundred dollars. My income isn't so big but that a slice like that won't play the deuce ...
— Tales of the Jazz Age • F. Scott Fitzgerald


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