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.