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slice

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1. slice - Noun

2. slice - Adjective

3. slice - Verb

4. Slice - Proper noun

Meaning

A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.

That which is thin and broad, like a slice.

A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.

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.

One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.

A removable sliding bottom to galley.

To cut into thin pieces, or to cut off a thin, broad piece from.

To cut into parts; to divide.

To clear by means of a slice bar, as a fire or the grate bars of a furnace.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. Alfred Hitchcock

He looked as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. Raymond Chandler

The fact that I was a junkie for a long time is only one slice of my own personal pie, which is made up of a lot of different slices. Anthony Kiedis

Who is over nice, loses many a slice. German Proverb

You never miss a slice from a cut loaf. English Proverb

No matter how you slice it, it's still baloney. American Proverb

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