slice

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• COUNT in NET: 3 in 3 verses (in OT : 3 in 3 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

slice, n. [OE. slice, sclice, OF. esclice, from esclicier, esclichier, to break to pieces, of German origin; cf. OHG. slīzan to split, slit, tear, G. schleissen to slit. See Slit, v. t.].

•  A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is thin and broad, like a slice.  [1913 Webster]

Slice bar, a kind of fire iron resembling a poker, with a broad, flat end, for stirring a fire of coals, and clearing it and the grate bars from clinkers, ashes, etc.; a slice.

slice, v. t. 

•  To cut into thin pieces, or to cut off a thin, broad piece from.  [1913 Webster]
•  To cut into parts; to divide.  [1913 Webster]
•  To clear by means of a slice bar, as a fire or the grate bars of a furnace.  [1913 Webster]
•  To hit (the ball) so that the face of the club draws across the face of the ball and deflects it.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

slice, n. & v.
--n.
1 a thin broad piece or wedge cut off or out esp. from meat or bread or a cake, pie, or large fruit.
2 a share; a part taken or allotted or gained (a slice of territory; a slice of the profits).
3 an implement with a broad flat blade for serving fish etc. or for scraping or chipping.
4 Golf & Lawn Tennis a slicing stroke.
--v.
1 tr. (often foll. by up) cut into slices.
2 tr. (foll. by off) cut (a piece) off.
3 intr. (foll. by into, through) cut with or like a knife.
4 tr. (also absol.) a Golf strike (the ball) so that it deviates away from the striker. b (in other sports) propel (the ball) forward at an angle.
5 tr. go through (air etc.) with a cutting motion.

Idiom

slice of life a realistic representation of everyday experience.

Derivative

sliceable adj. slicer n. (also in comb.).

Etymology

ME f. OF esclice, esclicier splinter f. Frank. slitjan, rel. to SLIT

THESAURUS

slice

allotment, allowance, amputate, apportion, ax, big end, bigger half, bisect, bit, bite, breach, break, breakage, budget, burst, butcher, butt, carve, carve up, chip, chop, chunk, cleave, cleft, clip, clipping, coat, coating, collop, commission, contingent, covering, crack, crumb, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, cut up, cutting, deal, destiny, dichotomize, disk, dissect, dissever, divide, divide into shares, divide up, divide with, dividend, divvy up, dole, dollop, end, equal share, excise, fate, feuille, film, fissure, flap, foil, fold, fracture, fragment, gap, gash, gob, gobbet, hack, half, halve, halver, helping, hew, hunk, incise, interest, jigsaw, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lance, lap, layer, leaf, lot, lump, measure, meed, membrane, mess, modicum, moiety, morsel, pane, panel, parcel, pare, paring, part, particle, partition, patina, peel, pellicle, percentage, piece, pierce, plait, plank, plate, plating, ply, plywood, portion, proportion, prune, quantum, quota, rake-off, rasher, ration, rend, rent, rift, rip, rive, rupture, safety glass, saw, scale, scallop, scissor, scoop, scrap, scum, segment, sever, shard, share, share out, share with, shaving, sheet, shiver, shred, skin, slab, slash, slat, slice the pie, slice up, slicer, slit, sliver, small share, smithereen, snack, snatch, snip, snippet, spatula, splinter, split, split up, stake, stitch, stock, stump, sunder, table, tablet, tatter, tear, veneer, wafer, wedge, whittle

ROGET THESAURUS

slice

Disjunction

VB be disjoined, come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces, peel off, get loose, disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair, divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate, set apart, keep apart, insulate, isolate, throw out of gear, cut adrift, loose, unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock, unpack, unravel, disentangle, set free, sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind, circumcise, cut, incide, incise, saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst, rend, rend asunder, rend in twain, wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop, cut up, rip up, hack, hew, slash, whittle, haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice, cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize, dislimb, take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb, divellicate, skin, disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband, disperse, dislocate, disjoint, break up, mince, comminute, apportion, part, part company, separate, leave.

Part

N part, portion, dose, item, particular, aught, any, division, ward, subdivision, section, chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse, article, passage, sector, segment, fraction, fragment, cantle, frustum, detachment, parcel, piece, lump, bit cut, cutting, chip, chunk, collop, slice, scale, lamina, small part, morsel, particle, installment, dividend, share, debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus, excerpta, member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig, runner, leaf, leaflet, stump, component part, sarmentum, compartment, department, county, fractional, fragmentary, sectional, aliquot, divided, in compartments, multifid, disconnected, partial, partly, in part, partially, piecemeal, part by part, by by installments, by snatches, by inches, by driblets, bit by bit, inch by inch, foot by foot, drop by drop, in detail, in lots.

Layer

N layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment, table, tablet, dess, flagstone, board, plank, trencher, platter, plate, lamina, lamella, sheet, foil, wafer, scale, flake, peel, coat, pellicle, membrane, film, leaf, slice, shive, cut, rasher, shaving, integument, eschar, stratification, scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion, monolayer, bilayer, trilayer, lamellar, lamellated, lamelliform, layered, laminated, laminiferous, micaceous, schistose, schistous, scaly, filmy, membranous, pellicular, flaky, squamous, foliated, foliaceous, stratified, stratiform, tabular, discoid, spathic, spathose, trilamellar, graphitic.

VB slice, shave, pare, peel, delaminate, plate, coat, veneer, cover.