slice
slice Lexical Profile
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• noun
A thin, broad piece of food, such as bread, meat, or cake, cut from a larger portion.
"She served everyone a generous slice of chocolate cake after dinner."
A share, portion, or percentage of something abstract, such as time, profits, or funding.
"The startup promised its early investors a significant slice of the company's future revenue."
A struck ball in racket sports or golf that curves in the air away from the player's dominant side due to sidespin.
"His drive off the first tee resulted in a terrible slice that landed in the woods on the right."
• verb
To cut something, especially food, into thin, broad pieces.
"The chef carefully sliced the tomatoes to arrange them around the mozzarella."
To move quickly, smoothly, and forcefully through a medium like water or air, resembling the action of a blade.
"The sailboat sliced gracefully through the choppy waters of the bay."
To strike a ball in such a way that it curves laterally in flight due to imparted sidespin.
"If you grip the club too tightly, you might inadvertently slice the golf ball into the rough."
• Rhymes for slice
Word Origin & Etymology
From Old French 'esclice' (a splinter or piece), derived from the verb 'esclicier' (to splinter, smash), which is of Germanic origin and related to the Old High German 'slīzan' (to slice or slit).
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