slice
- a thin, flat piece cut from something: a slice of bread.
- a part, portion, or share: a slice of land.
- any of various implements with a thin, broad blade or part, as for turning food in a frying pan, serving fish at the table, or taking up printing ink; spatula.
- Sports.
- the path described by a ball, as in baseball or golf, that curves in a direction corresponding to the side from which it was struck.
- a ball describing such a path.
- Tennis. a stroke executed by hitting down on the ball with an underhand motion and thus creating backspin.
- to cut into slices; divide into parts.
- to cut through or cleave with or as if with a knife: The ship sliced the sea.
- to cut off or remove as a slice or slices (sometimes followed by off, away, from, etc.).
- to remove by means of a slice, slice bar, or similar implement.
- Sports. to hit (a ball) so as to result in a slice.
- to slice something.
- to admit of being sliced.
- Sports.
- (of a player) to slice the ball.
- (of a ball) to describe a slice in flight.
Origin of slice
Related Words for slice
chop, wedge, portion, sliver, shave, cleave, divide, hack, slit, shred, split, slash, strip, carve, sever, cut, bite, quota, helping, partExamples from the Web for slice
Contemporary Examples of slice
Finding the shop is a trip in itself and an introduction to a slice of history.
The robots can slice through stone and rough out vast blocks of stone while the artisans are sleeping.
“There were moments when I was just really tempted to have a slice of pizza or a cheeseburger,” he says.
The Good Lie should have been a slice of history, the likes of which never to be repeated.
If you drink a diet soda, are you more likely to give yourself permission to have a slice of cake later?
Historical Examples of slice
Come, man, you must be as hungry as a hawk—a slice of the beef?
Night and Morning, CompleteEdward Bulwer-Lytton
In carving a round of beef, slice it horizontally and very thin.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesEliza Leslie
When they are quite tender all through, take them out, and drain and slice them.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesEliza Leslie
Peel, slice them, and fry them brown in butter or nice dripping.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesEliza Leslie
Quarter the cabbage lengthways, and then slice it crossways.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesEliza Leslie
slice
- a thin flat piece cut from something having bulka slice of pork
- a share or portiona slice of the company's revenue
- any of various utensils having a broad flat blade and resembling a spatula
- (in golf, tennis, etc)
- the flight of a ball that travels obliquely because it has been struck off centre
- the action of hitting such a shot
- the shot so hit
- to divide or cut (something) into parts or slices
- (when intr, usually foll by through) to cut in a clean and effortless manner
- (when intr, foll by through) to move or go (through something) like a knifethe ship sliced through the water
- (usually foll by off, from, away, etc) to cut or be cut (from) a larger piece
- (tr) to remove by use of a slicing implement
- to hit (a ball) with a slice
- (tr) rowing to put the blade of the oar into (the water) slantwise
Word Origin for slice
Word Origin and History for slice
c.1300, "a fragment," from Old French escliz "splinter, fragment" (Modern French éclisse), a back-formation from esclicier "to splinter, shatter, smash," from Frankish *slitan "to split" or some other Germanic source (cf. Old High German slihhan; see slit (v.)). Meaning "piece cut from something" emerged early 15c. Meaning "a slicing stroke" (in golf, tennis) is recorded from 1886. Slice of life (1895) translates French tranche de la vie, a term from French Naturalist literature.
late 15c., from Middle French esclicier, from Old French escliz (see slice (n.)). Golfing sense is from 1890. Related: Sliced; slicing. Sliced bread introduced 1958; greatest thing since ... first attested 1969.
No matter how thick or how thin you slice it it's still baloney. [Carl Sandburg, "The People, Yes," 1936]
Idioms and Phrases with slice
slice
In addition to the subsequent idiom beginning with slice
- slice of the pie
also see:
- greatest thing since sliced bread
- no matter how you slice it