slice

1 a share of something; "a slice of the company's revenue" [syn: piece]

2 a serving that has been cut from a larger portion; "a piece of pie"; "a slice of bread" [syn: piece]

3 a wound made by cutting; "he put a bandage over the cut" [syn: cut, gash, slash]

4 a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer; "he took lessons to cure his slicing" [syn: fade, slicing]

5 a thin flat piece cut off of some object

6 a spatula for spreading paint or ink

1 make a clean cut through; "slit her throat" [syn: slit]

2 hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction

3 cut into slices; "Slice the salami, please" [syn: slice up]

4 hit a ball so that it causes a backspin

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪs

Etymology

From esclice (a piece split off), from esclicier (to splinter). Used in English since 14th Century.

Noun

1. That which is thin and broad.
2. A thin, broad piece cut off.

   a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread

3. A piece of pizza.

   I'll have a slice, please.

4. A broad, thin piece of plaster.
5. A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
6. A salver, platter, or tray.
7. 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.
8. One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
9. A removable sliding bottom to galley.
10. A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
11. A class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squareish slices.
12. A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.

Translations

Verb

1. To cut into slices.

   Slice the cheese thinly.

2. To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).

Translations

Slice may refer to:

Food

• A portion of bread, cake, or meat that is cut flat and thin, cf. sliced bread
• Slice (soft drink), a line of fruit-flavored drinks
• Vanilla slice, a dessert
• Mr. Slice, the mascot of Papa John's pizza restaurant

Sports

• Backspin, or "slice" in racquet sports; also known as "slice" or "underspin" in golf
• Kimbo Slice (1974 - ), a street fighter

Media

• Slice (TV channel), a Canadian TV channel formerly known as Life Network
• Slice of SciFi, a podcast and website about science fiction, fantasy, and horror
• UTStarcom PCS1400, a mobile phone

Fiction

• Slice of life story, a genre of fiction writing
• Slice (film), a 2008 horror movie
• "A Slice at a Time", a 2002 science fiction short story
• A Slice of Life, a 1914 movie
• Cobra Slice, a G.I. Joe character
• In Terry Pratchett's Discworld stories, there is a region near Lancre known as Slice, which is the proverbial place "where the sun don't shine."

Mathematics

• Slice genus, in knot theory
• Slice knot, in knot theory
• Slice sampling, a Monte Carlo sampling method
• Projection-slice theorem, a theorem about Fourier transforms

Music

• Slice (album), a 1998 album by Arthur Loves Plastic
• Slice of Doom 1999-2002, an album by Reverend Bizarre
• "Slice of Heaven", a 1986 single by Dave Dobbyn and Herbs
• Eighth Day Slice/Fiddlin on ya Roof, a 2005 punk rock album by Yidcore

Computing

• Time slice, the time during which a process runs
• Time slice multiplexing, a form of processor scheduling
• Slice (disk), a logical division or partition of a hard disk
• Array slicing, an operation that extracts certain elements from an array
• Bit slicing, a technique for constructing a processor from modules of smaller bit width

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