Definition of Slice

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Definition of Slice

Slice

To hit (the ball) so that the face of the club draws across the face of the ball and deflects it.

A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.

That which is thin and broad, like a slice.

A broad, thin piece of plaster.

A salver, platter, or tray.

A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.

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.

One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.

A removable sliding bottom to galley.

To cut into thin pieces, or to cut off a thin, broad piece from.

To cut into parts; to divide.

To clear by means of a slice bar, as a fire or the grate bars of a furnace.

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Slice Quotations

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.
John Steinbeck

It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'
Neale Donald Walsch

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
Alfred Hitchcock

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
Alfred Hitchcock

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
George Will

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
Raymond Chandler

He looked as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
Raymond Chandler

One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of the 20th century; and another, curious layer which may possibly have been the 21st.
Clement Attlee

But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.
Daniel Goleman

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
Barbra Streisand

Slice Translations

slice in Afrikaans is skyf, sny, plak
slice in Dutch is moot, plak, snede, schijf, filet
slice in Finnish is leikata
slice in French is tranche, couper, trancher
slice in German is Prozessorelement, Schnitte
slice in Hungarian is szelet
slice in Italian is tagliare, pezzo, fetta
slice in Portuguese is fatia
slice in Spanish is rodaja, tarazon, rebanar, tajada, loncha, trozo
slice in Swedish is andel, skiva

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