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Slice   /slaɪs/   Listen
Slice

noun
1.
A share of something.  Synonym: piece.
2.
A serving that has been cut from a larger portion.  Synonym: piece.  "A slice of bread"
3.
A wound made by cutting.  Synonyms: cut, gash, slash.
4.
A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer.  Synonyms: fade, slicing.
5.
A thin flat piece cut off of some object.
6.
A spatula for spreading paint or ink.
verb
(past & past part. sliced; pres. part. slicing)
1.
Make a clean cut through.  Synonym: slit.
2.
Hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction.
3.
Cut into slices.  Synonym: slice up.
4.
Hit a ball so that it causes a backspin.



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"Slice" Quotes from Famous Books



... years' experience, about once in two or three months—because there is nothing else at hand—I find myself eating a small bit of meat. This usually happens when I am on a lecture tour. But if I eat only a small slice of bacon at the evening meal I dream bad dreams and the next morning feel drowsy, heavy, and sluggish. Animal foods as well as eggs and commercial sugar poison all those born of nervous parents. I have proved the truth of this by ...
— How to Eat - A Cure for "Nerves" • Thomas Clark Hinkle
... It was thought a fine match for Polly Smith, when she married the great Mr. Newcome; but I doubt whether my old woman at home hasn't had the best of it, after all; and if ever you come Bernard Street way on a Sunday, about six o'clock, and would like a slice of beef and a glass of port, I hope you'll come ...
— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray
... so sad and serious, that all felt that it would not do to indulge in joyous chatter, and the little girls especially were awed; though through all there was a tender kindness in his voice and look, whenever he did but offer a slice of bread to his little guest, such as made her feel what was home and what was love—"like a shower of rain after a parched desert" as she said to herself; and she squeezed Sylvia's hand under the ...
— Countess Kate • Charlotte M. Yonge
... hill; for his friend's house lay at the lower end, or tail, of Chateau Landon, while the inn was up at the head, under the great church spire. With this clue to go upon he stumbled and groped forward, now breathing more freely in open places where there was a good slice of sky overhead, now feeling along the wall in stifling closes. It is an eerie and mysterious position to be thus submerged in opaque blackness in an almost unknown town. The silence is terrifying in its possibilities. The touch of cold window-bars ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... too—will have to stay here and stand guard on the Major and this fresh guy, Pringle," said the sheriff thoughtfully. "He'll get his slice ...
— The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On • Eugene Manlove Rhodes


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