slice
noun
[ slʌɪs ]
• a thin, broad piece of food, such as bread, meat, or cake, cut from a larger portion.
• "four slices of bread"
Similar:
piece,
portion,
wedge,
chunk,
hunk,
lump,
slab,
segment,
rasher,
collop,
sliver,
wafer,
shaving,
helping,
round,
escalope,
scallop,
scaloppina,
fricandeau,
wodge,
hunch,
• a utensil with a broad, flat blade for lifting foods such as cake and fish.
• a stroke that makes the ball curve away to the right (for a left-handed player, the left), typically inadvertently.
slice
verb
• cut (something, especially food) into slices.
• "slice the onion into rings"
• strike (the ball) or play (a stroke) so that the ball curves away to the right (for a left-handed player, the left).
• "Duval sliced his ball into the water to the right of the green"
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘fragment, splinter’): shortening of Old French esclice ‘splinter’, from the verb esclicier, of Germanic origin; related to German schleissen ‘to slice’, also to slit.
