slicenoun
uk/slaɪs/us/slaɪs/slice noun (PIECE)
A2 [ C ] a flat, often thin, piece of food that has been cut from a larger piece:
C2 [ S ] a part of something, such as an amount of money:
[ C ] a kitchen utensil with a wide blade, used for serving pieces of food:
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- a slice of toast
- She took a slice of chocolate cake and smothered it in cream.
- Layer the pasta with slices of tomato.
- She cut two slices of noticeably unequal size.
- Could you cut me a smaller slice?
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Words meaning small pieces and amounts
- by a nose idiom
- chip
- clipping
- crumb
- dollop
- droplet
- flake
- germ
- jot
- nose
- pat
- patch
- pennyworth
- pinprick
- ray
- scattering
- scintilla
- shadow
- shard
- shred
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slice noun (HIT)
[ C ] in tennis, the action of hitting the bottom of the ball so that it does not bounce very high when it hits the ground:
in the sports of golf and baseball, the action of hitting a ball so that it goes to one side rather than straight in front
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Tennis & racket sports
- ball boy/girl
- birdie
- break
- break point
- deuce
- double
- fault
- groundstroke
- half-volley
- knock
- lawn tennis
- match point
- passing shot
- racket
- racquetball
- rally
- seed
- single
- sweet spot
- tennis shoe
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Idiom(s)
sliceverb
uk/slaɪs/us/slaɪs/slice verb (CUT)
B2 [ T ] to cut something into thin, flat pieces:
[ I + adv/prep ] to easily cut into or through something with a sharp knife:
More examples
- Peel off the skins and thickly slice the potatoes.
- Slice the onions as thin as you can get them.
- Take off the heat and slice the bananas lengthways.
- With a very sharp knife, slice the beef as thinly as possible.
- He accidentally sliced the top off his finger while he was cutting vegetables.
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Cutting and stabbing
- abrasion
- bayonet
- carve
- carving
- chisel
- chop
- cut sth down
- laceration
- lance
- mow
- nick
- notch
- saw sth down
- scratch
- slash
- spike
- transfix
- trim
- whittle
- woodcarving
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slice verb (HIT)
[ T ] in the sports of golf and baseball, to hit a ball so that it goes to one side rather than straight in front:
[ T ] If you slice the ball in a game of tennis, you hit the bottom of the ball so that it does not bounce very high when it hits the ground.
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Golf
- a hole in one idiom
- birdie
- bunker
- chip
- drive
- fairway
- golf course
- green
- hole
- iron
- match play
- mini-golf
- miniature golf
- par
- putt
- putting green
- sand trap
- tee (sth) up
- tee off
- yip
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