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1.nounThat which is thin and broad.
2.nounA thin, broad piece cut off."Jim was munching on a slice of toast."
3.nounAn amount of anything.
4.nounA piece of pizza.
5.nounA snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling."I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station."
6.nounA broad, thin piece of plaster.
7.nounA knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
8.nounA salver, platter, or tray.
9.nounA 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.nounOne of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
11.nounA removable sliding bottom to a galley.
12.nounA shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
13.nounAny of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
14.nounA section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
15.nounA hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
16.nounA contiguous portion of an array.
17.verbTo cut into slices."Slice the cheese thinly."
18.verbTo cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion."The knife left sliced his arm."
19.verbTo clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
20.verbTo hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
21.verbTo hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
22.verbTo angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
23.verbTo kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
24.verbTo hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
25.adjectiveHaving the properties of a slice knot.