Slice

Noun

 * 1) That which is thin and broad.
 * 2) A thin, broad piece cut off.
 * a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread
 * 1) amount
 * 2) A piece of pizza.
 * I'll have a slice, please.
 * I want two slices (of pepperoni pizza), please.
 * 1)  A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
 * I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.
 * 1) A broad, thin piece of plaster.
 * 2) A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
 * 3) A salver, platter, or tray.
 * 4) 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.
 * 5) One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
 * 6) A removable sliding bottom to galley.
 * 7)  A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
 * 8)  A class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
 * 9)  A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
 * 10)  A a hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
 * 1)  A a hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)

Derived terms

 * hyperslice

Verb

 * 1) To cut into slices.
 * Slice the cheese thinly.
 * 1)  To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).

Derived terms

 * sliceable

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
slice: from esclice: "a piece split off" from esclicer: "to splinter, split up", of  origin, from  *undefined: "to split up" from  from  from. Akin to sliz:,  slizan:,  slitan:. More at slit.

Noun

 * Catalan:
 * Czech: (of bread),
 * Dutch: ,
 * French:
 * German: Brotscheibe, Scheibe, Anteil, Teil, Stück
 * Greek:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurdish:


 * Latvian: rika
 * Polish: (2) plaster, plasterek ; kromka (of bread), pajda  (of bread); (3) kawałek ;
 * Portuguese:
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: skiva
 * Turkish:

Verb

 * German: schneiden, aufschneiden, hobeln, Schnitte anfertigen, in Scheiben schneiden
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: å skjære
 * Portuguese:


 * Spanish: rebanar
 * Swedish: skiva
 * Turkish: dilimlemek

Anagrams

 * ceils
 * Leics