slice

Meaning

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. 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. Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
14. A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
15. A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
16. A contiguous portion of an array.

cut

piece

slice up

cut into slices

cut into pieces

cut throat

small piece

cut into strips

cut open

cut to

cut with a sharp edge

fish slice

operate on

pancake turner

peck at

snip off

split in two

cut film

small bit broken off

food turner

musical passage

cut-piece

thin section

thin piece

white cheese

sliced meat

sliced vencer

microtome section

flake film

long handle shovel

long hand shovel

slib

cut away

nip off

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/slaɪs/

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.