n.
   - a thin, broad piece of food cut from a larger portion. 
▸a portion or share.
 - a utensil with a broad, flat blade for lifting foods such as cake and fish.
 - (in sports) a sliced stroke or shot.
 
v.
   - cut into slices. 
▸
(often slice something off/from)
 cut with or as if with a sharp implement.
 - move easily and quickly.
 - Golf  strike (the ball) so that it curves away to the right (for a left-handed player, the left). 
▸(in other sports) propel (the ball) with a glancing contact so that it travels forward spinning.
 
 
  Phrase
  
    
      - slice and dice
 divide a quantity of information up into smaller parts, especially in order to analyse it more closely or in different ways. 
    
   
  Derivative
  
  Etymology
  ME (in the sense ‘fragment, splinter’): shortening of OFr. esclice ‘splinter’, from the verb esclicier, of Gmc origin; rel. to slit.