From en.wiktionary.org:
[Slice]
** English
*** Etymology
From [en], [enm], from [en], [fro], deverbal of [fro], [fro], from [en], from
[en], from [en], from [en]. Akin to [goh], [goh], [goh], [ang], modern [fr].
More at slite, slit.
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. That which is thin and broad .
2. * [text=I pulled in hand over hand on the cord, and when I judged myself near enough, rose at infinite risk to about half my height and thus commanded the roof and a SLICE of the interior of the cabin.]
3. A thin, broad piece cut off.
4. [en] An amount of anything.
5. * {{ quote-web
|en |date=December 28, 2010 |author=Owen Phillips |title=Sunderland 0 - 2
Blackpool |work=BBC
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/9317216.stm |page=
|passage=Blackpool, chasing a seventh win in 17 league matches, simply could
not contain Sunderland's rampant attack and had to resort to a combination of
last-ditch defending, fine goalkeeping and a large SLICE of fortune.}}
1. A piece of pizza , shaped like a sector of a circle.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2010 | author=Andrea Renzoni; Eric Renzoni | title=Fuhgeddaboudit! | page=22
|passage=For breakfast, lunch, or dinner, the best Guido meal is a SLICE and a
Coke.}}
1. [en] A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling .
2. A broad, thin piece of plaster .
3. A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
4. A salver , platter , or tray .
5. A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel , or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar ; a peel ; a fire shovel .
6. One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
7. [en] A removable sliding bottom to a galley .
8. [en] A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See [en] , [en] , [en] .
9. [en] A kind of cut shot where the bat makes an obtuse angle with the batter .
10. [en] Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
11. [en] A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
12. [en] A hawk 's or falcon 's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute .)
13. [en] A contiguous portion of an array .
**** Derived terms
{{col4|en |bit slice |cake slice|hedgehog slice |caramel slice|fried slice
|cream slice |custard slice |egg slice |fish slice |galley slice |home slice
|hyperslice |interslice |it's been a slice |microslice |midslice |minislice
|orthoslice |slice bar |slice category |slice of life |slice of the pie
|subslice |timeslice,time slice |vanilla slice |white Christmas slice |jumbo
slice|Napoleon slice|slice knot|slice of the cake|slice shop}}
**** Translations
[thin, broad piece cut off]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] ( _of bread_ ), [cs] [of ham]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Egyptian: [fdq]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hebrew: [he] [of bread] , [he] , [he] [of fruit]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] ( _of bread_ )
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Lao: [lo] , [lo]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] [of bread]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms] [as measure words] ; [ms] , [ms]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa] , [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: (2) plaster [m] , plasterek [m] ; kromka [f] ( _of bread_ ), pajda [f] ( _of bread_ ); (3) kawałek [m] ;
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Rarotongan: [rar]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Samoan: [sm]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] [circular] , [es] [lemon or orange in wine]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tahitian: [ty]
- Thai: [th]
- Tongan: [to]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[a section of image taken of an internal organ]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[golf shot]
- German: [de]
- Maori: [mi]
[trans-bottom]
[a piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To cut into slices.
2. [en] To cut with an edge using a drawing motion.
3. [en] To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar .
4. [en] To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
5. [en] To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
6. [en] To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
7. [en] To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
8. * [en]
9. [en] To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
**** Derived terms
{{col3|en |any way one slices it |no matter how one slices it |no matter how
thin you slice it, it's still baloney |salami-slice |slice and dice |sliceable
|sliced bread |slice off |slicer |slice the pie |slice through |slice up |slow
slicing }}
**** Translations
[to cut into slices]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Fijian: [fj]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [histolog.] [de] , [de]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Italian: [it]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Paicî: [pri]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Samoan: [sm] , [sm] [to cut several objects at once, or to cut one into many slices]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tahitian: [ty]
- Thai: [th] , [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[(golf) to hit a shot that travels to one side]
- Italian: [it]
[trans-bottom]
*** Adjective
[Slice knot] [-]
1. [en] Having the properties of a slice knot .
*** Anagrams
- [en]
** French
*** Pronunciation
- [slaillce]
- [fr]
*** Verb
[fr]
1. [fr]
** Old Irish
*** Etymology
From the root of [sga], from [sga].
*** Pronunciation
- [sga-IPA]
*** Noun
[m]
1. shell
**** Inflection
[slic]
**** Descendants
- [ga]
- [gv]
- [gd]
- [mga]
*** Mutation
[sga-mutation]
*** Further reading
- [37928]