Definitions for slice

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Spelling: [slahys]

IPA: /slaɪs/

Slice is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in slice (ceils).

Definitions for slice

noun

1. a thin, flat piece cut from something:
2. a part, portion, or share:
3. any of various implements with a thin, broad blade or part, as for turning food in a frying pan, serving fish at the table, or taking up printing ink; spatula.
4. Sports. the path described by a ball, as in baseball or golf, that curves in a direction corresponding to the side from which it was struck. a ball describing such a path.
5. Tennis. a stroke executed by hitting down on the ball with an underhand motion and thus creating backspin.

verb (used with object)

1. to cut into slices; divide into parts.
2. to cut through or cleave with or as if with a knife:
3. to cut off or remove as a slice or slices (sometimes followed by off, away, from, etc.).
4. to remove by means of a slice, slice bar, or similar implement.
5. Sports. to hit (a ball) so as to result in a slice.

verb (used without object)

1. to slice something.
2. to admit of being sliced.
3. Sports. (of a player) to slice the ball. (of a ball) to describe a slice in flight.

Origin of slice

1300-50; (noun) Middle English s(c)lice Old French esclice, noun derivative of esclicer to split up Frankish *slitjan, akin to Old English slītan, Old Norse slīta, Dutch slījten (see

Examples for slice

If you drink a diet soda, are you more likely to give yourself permission to have a slice of cake later?

Peel, slice them, and fry them brown in butter or nice dripping.

“There were moments when I was just really tempted to have a slice of pizza or a cheeseburger,” he says.

In carving a round of beef, slice it horizontally and very thin.

When they are quite tender all through, take them out, and drain and slice them.

Quarter the cabbage lengthways, and then slice it crossways.

Finding the shop is a trip in itself and an introduction to a slice of history.

The robots can slice through stone and rough out vast blocks of stone while the artisans are sleeping.

Come, man, you must be as hungry as a hawk—a slice of the beef?

The Good Lie should have been a slice of history, the likes of which never to be repeated.