slice

(Engels)

Noun

1. That which is thin and broad.
2. A thin, broad piece cut off.
3. (colloquial) An amount of anything.
4. A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.
5. (British) 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.
13. A kind of cut shot where the bat makes an obtuse angle with the batter.
14. (Australia, New-Zealand, UK) Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
15. A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
16. A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
17. A contiguous portion of an array.

Verb

1. (transitive) To cut into slices.
2. (transitive) To cut with an edge using a drawing motion.
3. (transitive) To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
4. (transitive) To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
5. (transitive) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
6. (transitive) To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
7. (transitive) To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
8. (transitive) To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.

Adj

Having the properties of a slice knot.

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/slaɪs/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: sclise

Verwant aan Oudhoogduits: sliz

Verwant aan Oudhoogduits: slīzan

Verwant aan Oudengels: slītan

Verwant aan Frans: éclisse

In summary

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.

Concepten

plak

schijf

moot

snede

snerpen

snee

snijden

filet

sneetje

deel

plakje

stuk

litteken

omhakken

slijpen

snijwond

uitknippen

wondteken

schijfje

schijf

snijden

afhakken

een beslissing nemen

afhouwen

afkappen

beitelen

bestanddeel

bijlslag

hak

hakken

houw

houwen

jaap

kappen

Synoniemen

cut

piece

carve

chop

bit

chunk

fragment

portion

slit

part

lump

slab

slice up

flake

slash

segment

strip

mince

section

chop up

cut into slices

cut off

trim

wafer

sever

hack

sliver

cut up

hunk

saw

🪚

cut out

cut into pieces

chisel

slip

chip

scrap

crumble

rasher

tear

gash

hash

#️⃣

cleave

cutting

split

wedge

cut throat

slicing

crush

shear

fillet

Vertalingen

tranche

Scheibe

trancher

couper

schneiden

fetta

tagliare

Stück

1️⃣

φέτα

Schnitte

fatia

affettare

rebanar

ciąć

tailler