slice

IPA: sɫˈaɪs

That which is thin and broad.
A thin, broad piece cut off.
(colloquial) An amount of anything.
A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.
(Britain) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
A broad, thin piece of plaster.
A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
A salver, platter, or tray.
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.
(printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
(golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw.
(Australia, New Zealand, UK) Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
(medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
(falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
(programming) A contiguous portion of an array.
A surname.

(transitive) To cut into slices.
(transitive) To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
(transitive) To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
(transitive, badminton) To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
(transitive, golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
(transitive, rowing) To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
(transitive, soccer) To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
(transitive, tennis) To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.

Examples of "slice" in Sentences

The microtome slices the tissue.
I put the sliced tomatoes in the pot.
The middle part of salmon slice is the best.
It is a gargantuan slice of irrelevant nonsense.
The scientists slice a square out of the casing.
A spam fritter is a slice of Spam fried in batter.
Slice was part of the selection process for the participants.
Janet writes memoirs and what she terms slice of life pieces.
The cut edge is then thinly sliced with a microtome or a cryostat.
Obama is accusing Ferraro of what he calls slice-and-dice politics.
Cut a thin slice from the top of each cake to create a flat surface.
The remaining part of the body sliced into pieces and buried in manure.
Bulgogi is made from thin slices of sirloin or other prime cuts of beef.
To uncover your edge, you need to segment, or what I call slice and dice, the market-wide numbers.
With some spinach and feta cheese that had contaminated the slice from the other half of the pizza.
Add a thin slice of garlic and onion, and wrap the bacon completely around the breast to contain the cream cheese and juices.
Tell us more about the people you met, because you spent a lot of the time doing what we call slice of life, talking to real people, rather than just military folk there.