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5-letter words (4 found)

CEILS,CIELS,CLIES,SLICE,

4-letter words (11 found)

CEIL,CELS,CIEL,ICES,ISLE,LEIS,LICE,LIES,SEIL,SICE,SILE,

3-letter words (12 found)

CEL,CIS,ELS,ICE,LEI,LES,LIE,LIS,SEC,SEI,SEL,SIC,

2-letter words (5 found)

EL,ES,IS,LI,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 33 words from slice according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of slice

slice

English

Etymology

From Middle English sclise, sklise, from Old French esclice, esclis (“a piece split off”), deverbal of esclicer, esclicier (“to splinter, split up”), from Frankish *slitjan (“to split up”), from Proto-Germanic *slitjaną, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to split, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyd- (“to rend, injure, crumble”). Akin to Old High German sliz, gisliz (“a tear, rip”), Old High German slīzan (“to tear”), Old English slītan (“to split up”), modern French éclisse. More at slite, slit.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /slaɪs/
  • Rhymes: -aɪs

Noun

slice (plural slices)

  1. That which is thin and broad.
  2. A thin, broad piece cut off.
    Synonyms: cutting, snippet; see also Thesaurus:piece
  3. (colloquial) An amount of anything.
  4. A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.
  5. (British) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
  6. A broad, thin piece of plaster.
  7. A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
  8. A salver, platter, or tray.
  9. 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.
  10. One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
  11. (printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
  12. (golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw.
    Synonyms: banana ball, banana slice
  13. (cricket) A kind of cut shot where the bat makes an obtuse angle with the batter.
  14. (Australia, New Zealand, UK) Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
  15. (medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
  16. (falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
  17. (programming) A contiguous portion of an array.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

slice (third-person singular simple present slices, present participle slicing, simple past and past participle sliced)

  1. (transitive) To cut into slices.
  2. (transitive) To cut with an edge using a drawing motion.
  3. (transitive) To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
  4. (transitive, badminton) To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
  5. (transitive, golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
  6. (transitive, rowing) To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
  7. (transitive, soccer) To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
  8. (transitive, tennis) To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.

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Translations

Adjective

slice (not comparable)

  1. (mathematics) Having the properties of a slice knot.

Anagrams

  • -sicle, Celis, ILECs, Leics, Sicel, ceils, ciels, clies, sicle

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /slajs/

Verb

slice

  1. inflection of slicer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Old Irish

Etymology

From the root of Proto-Celtic *sligeti (“to strike, hew”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyǵ- (“to smear”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsʲl͈ʲiɡʲe]

Noun

slice m (genitive slici, nominative plural slici)

  1. shell

Inflection

Descendants

  • Irish: slige
  • Manx: shlig
  • Scottish Gaelic: slige
  • ⇒ Middle Irish: *slicén
    • Irish: sliogán
    • Scottish Gaelic: sligean
    • Manx: shliggan

Mutation

Further reading

  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “slice”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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