slice

/slaɪs/

noun

1
That which is thin and broad.
2
A thin, broad piece cut off.
“Jim was munching on a slice of toast.”
3
An amount of anything.
4
A piece of pizza.
5
A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
“I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.”
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.

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

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