slice
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
slice/slʌɪs/
▶noun
- 1 a thin, broad piece of food cut from a larger portion.
■ a portion or share.
- 2 a utensil with a broad, flat blade for lifting foods such as cake and fish.
- 3 (in sports) a sliced stroke or shot.
- 1 cut into slices.
■ (often slice something off/from) cut with or as if with a sharp implement.
- 2 move easily and quickly.
- 3 Golf strike (the ball) so that it curves away to the right (for a left-handed player, the left).
■ (in other sports) propel (the ball) with a glancing contact so that it travels forward spinning.
– phrases
slice and dice divide a quantity of information up into smaller parts, especially in order to analyse it more closely or in different ways.
slice and dice divide a quantity of information up into smaller parts, especially in order to analyse it more closely or in different ways.
– derivatives
sliceable adjective,
slicer noun.
sliceable adjective,
slicer noun.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘fragment, splinter’): shortening of OFr. esclice ‘splinter’, from the verb esclicier, of Gmc origin; rel. to slit.
'slice' also found in these Oxford entries:
beefsteak
- cake
- cheeseburger
- chop
- collop
- crisp
- cut
- doorstep
- escalope
- fettuccine
- fish slice
- flense
- furrow slice
- gubbins
- luncheon
- minute steak
- olive
- open sandwich
- partitive
- paupiette
- rasher
- retrench
- round
- schnitzel
- section
- shave
- shive
- slab
- smorgasbord
- steak
- tomography
- top-slice
- tranche
- wafer
- Wiener schnitzel
