slice

(slīs)

a. A thin broad piece cut from a larger object: ate a slice of cheese; examined a slice of the diseased lung.

b. An often wedge-shaped piece cut from a larger, usually circular object: ordered a slice of pie; shared a slice of pizza.

2. A portion or share: a slice of the profits.

a. A knife with a broad, thin, flexible blade, used for cutting and serving food.

b. A similar implement for spreading printing ink.

4. Sports

a. The course of a ball that curves in the direction of the dominant hand of the player propelling it, as to the right of a right-handed player.

b. A stroke that causes a ball to follow such a course: a golfer with a bad slice.

c. A ball propelled on such a course.

d. A stroke, as in tennis, in which the ball is struck with a downward motion with the open face of the racket in order to impart backspin.

v. sliced, slic·ing, slic·es

v.tr.

1. To cut or divide into slices: slice a loaf of bread.

2. To cut from a larger piece: slice off a piece of salami.

3. To cut through or move through with an action like cutting: "where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire" (Robert Frost).

4. To divide into portions or shares; parcel out: "With mortgage securitisation, a pool of home loans is sliced into tranches bearing different degrees of risk" (David Shirreff).

5. To reduce or remove from a larger amount or entity: sliced 10 percent off the asking price.

6. Sports To hit (a ball) with a slice.

v.intr.

1. To make a cut with a cutting implement: I sliced into the cake.

2. To move like a knife: The destroyer sliced through the water.

3. Sports To hit a ball with a slice.

Idiom:

any way/no matter how you slice it

No matter how you look at it; no matter how it is analyzed.

[Middle English sclice, splinter, from Old French esclice, from esclicier, to splinter, of Germanic origin.]

slice′a·ble adj.

slic′er n.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.	1.	sliced - prepared by cutting; "sliced tomatoes"; "sliced ham"; "chopped clams"; "chopped meat"; "shredded cabbage" chopped, shredded cut - separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument; "the cut surface was mottled"; "cut tobacco"; "blood from his cut forehead"; "bandages on her cut wrists"
	2.	sliced - used of meat; cut into pieces for serving carved, carven - made for or formed by carving (`carven' is archaic or literary); "the carved fretwork"; "an intricately carved door"; "stood as if carven from stone"

Translations

مُقَطَّع إلى قِطَع

nařezaný

aufgeschnitten

en rodajas rebanado

szeletelt

sneiddur

tagliato

i skiver

narezaný

dilimlenmiş

刨切的片状的

sliced

[slaɪst] ADJ [bread] → rebanado, en rebanadas; [lemon] → en rodajas
it's the best thing since sliced bread → es la octava maravilla (del mundo)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

sliced

adj → (in Scheiben) geschnitten; loaf, bread, sausage → (auf)geschnitten; he/it is the best thing since sliced bread (inf) → so jemanden/etwas hat die Welt schon lange nicht mehr gesehen (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

slice

(slais) noun

1. a thin broad piece (of something). How many slices of meat would you like?

2. a part or share. Who got the largest slice of the profits?

verb

1. to cut into slices. He sliced the sausage/cucumber.

2. to cut (as) with a sharp blade or knife. The blade slipped and sliced off the tip of his forefinger.

3. in golf etc, to hit (a ball) in such a way that it curves away to the right (or in the case of a left-handed player, to the left).

sliced adjective

(negative unsliced) cut into slices. a sliced loaf.

slicer noun

cheese slicer.