slice

noun

1. That which is thin and broad.

   “I pulled in hand over hand on the cord, and when I judged myself near enough, rose at infinite risk to about half my height and thus commanded the roof and a slice of the interior of the cabin.”

2. A thin, broad piece cut off.

   “a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread”

   “Jim was munching on a slice of toast.”

3. (colloquial)An amount of anything.

   “Blackpool, chasing a seventh win in 17 league matches, simply could not contain Sunderland's rampant attack and had to resort to a combination of last-ditch defending, fine goalkeeping and a large slice of fortune.”

4. A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.

   “For breakfast, lunch, or dinner, the best Guido meal is a slice and a Coke.”

5. (British)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. 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.

   “Slice the cheese thinly.”

2. (transitive)To cut with an edge using a drawing motion.

   “The knife left sliced his arm.”

   “How could it all be / We've never been dead / But never awake from this dream / How could it all be / We've never been dead / Just mirrors running scared / Slicing wrists while we look for our own mortality / All the lights went out cold / Shadow covers the soul / Essence of the world made ceremonial / Now we all wait for the demise / What was the question? / Why do you need an answer? / You make me nauseous”

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.

   “Chris Brunt sliced the spot-kick well wide but his error was soon forgotten as Olsson headed home from a corner.”

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

1. (not-comparable)Having the properties of a slice knot.

name

1. A surname.