SLICE

Slice

Slice is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel owned by Shaw Media.

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

Verb

  1. To cut into slices.
    Slice the cheese thinly.
  2. To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
    The knife left sliced his arm.
  3. To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
  4. To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.


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