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单词 slice
释义 slice
I. \ˈslīs\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English sklise, slice, from Middle French esclice, esclisse splinter, thin piece of wood, from Old French, from esclicier to splinter — more at slice II
1.
 a. : a thin flat portion that is cut from something
  < a slice of bread >
  < a slice of roast beef >
 b. : chip I 1i
 c. : something that resembles a slice
  < looked … through the narrow slice of window in the tower room — Kay Boyle >
2.
 a. obsolete : a spatula or paddle used especially for mixing or spreading medical compounds
 b. : a knife with a broad or wedge-shaped blade used especially for serving food
  < a fish slice >
 c. archaic : an iron bar flattened at one end for use as a fire shovel
 d. : a tool with a flat blade for scraping or stripping (as for flensing a whale); specifically : slice bar
 e.
  (1) : the removable sliding bottom of a printer's slice galley
  (2) : ink knife
3. : a part separated from the whole : segment, share
 < territorial claims to slices of Antarctica — J.D.M.Blyth >
 < make a bid for a slice of the … prize money — H.W.Young >
 < for plot must be substituted the reality of a slice of life — F.B.Millett >
II. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English sklicen, from Middle French esclicier, esclissier to splinter, from Old French, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German slīzan to tear apart — more at slit
transitive verb
1.
 a. : to cut with or as if with a knife
  < slice bread >
  < slice a melon in two >
  < slice hickory sapwood for chair-bottom splints — American Guide Series: Arkansas >
  < jets slice the air like giant scythes — Claudia Cassidy >
  < production would be sliced by more than half — Newsweek >
 b. : to divide into segments as if by cutting
  < the chimney's shade … slices the glistening roof — Thomas Vance >
  < the data … have not been sliced in all the ways that they might — R.M.Goldman >
2.
 a. : to cut off cleanly with or as if with a knife
  < this machine slices off a narrow edge from each envelope — J.R.Gregg >
  < the industry will be able to slice $30,000,000 from its … annual fuel bill — D.C.Spaulding >
 b.
  (1) : to cut a passage through
   < expressways … slice our parks — Joseph Hudnut >
  (2) : to make by or as if by slicing
   < slice an opening in a wall >
   < troops … sliced their way through the crumpled resistance — Police Gazette >
3. : to stir, spread, or clear with a slice
 < slice printer's ink >
 < slice a grate >
4. : to hit (as a golf ball or tennis ball) so that a slice results — distinguished from drive; compare hook II 6b
intransitive verb
1. : to cut or seem to cut cleanly
 < the turbine blade … sliced into the fuel line — J.A.Michener >
 < wind … slicing through his overcoat as though it were the thinnest cotton — Irwin Shaw >
2.
 a. : to move with a cutting action often on the diagonal
  < the planes sliced on over — James Jones >
  < the luxury liner … sliced through the Atlantic today in quest of a speed record — New Orleans States >
  < the bull's horn slicing by his shoulder — Barnaby Conrad >
 b. : to hew a passage
  < a four-lane superhighway … slices through the craggy sierra — Lamp >
3.
 a. : to put a slice on a stroke or ball
 b. of a ball : to curve in flight in the direction of a slice
III. noun
(-s)
: a flight of a ball (as in golf, tennis, volley ball) that deflects to the right of a right-handed player or to the left of a left-handed player usually as a result of being hit across its center line; also : a ball following such a course — compare hook, spin
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