Slice - English meaning

verb

Cut (a hard material) in order to produce an object, design, or inscription.

Usage examples:

The wood was carved with runes

verb

To make something by cutting into esp. wood or stone, or to cut into the surface of stone, wood, etc.

Usage examples:

[ t ] this totem pole is carved from a single tree trunk., [ i/t ] would you like me to carve (the …

noun

A thick, solid piece of something.

Usage examples:

Huge chunks of masonry littered the street

verb

Divide (something) into chunks.

Usage examples:

Chunk four pounds of pears

verb

Move with or make a muffled, metallic sound.

Usage examples:

The door chunked behind them

noun

A slice of meat.

Usage examples:

Three collops of bacon

verb

Make an opening, incision, or wound in (something) with a sharp-edged tool or object.

Usage examples:

He cut his toe on a sharp stone

noun

A stroke or blow given by a sharp-edged implement or by a whip or cane.

Usage examples:

He could skin an animal with a single cut of the knife

verb

Separate with or as if with an instrument

verb

Separate or be separated into parts.

Usage examples:

Consumer magazines can be divided into a number of categories

noun

A difference or disagreement between two groups, typically producing tension.

Usage examples:

There was still a profound cultural divide between the parties

verb

To separate into parts or groups, or to cause something to separate in such a way

Usage examples:

[ t ] divide the cake into six equal parts., [ i ] the votes divided equally for and against the pr…

noun

A thin slice of meat without any bone, typically a special cut of veal from the leg that is coated, fried, and served in a sauce.

Usage examples:

What i often like having here is the veal escalope or the dover sole.

noun

A thin piece of meat without bones

Usage examples:

Veal/turkey escalopes

noun

A slice of meat, especially veal, cut from the leg.

Usage examples:

These are very small fricandeaux, two or three of which are served on one dish, and they sometimes …

noun

A slice of meat, usually veal (= meat from a young cow), cut from the animal's leg

Usage examples:

Schnitzel is made with fricandeau, sliced thinly from the leg., cut your fricando out of a leg of v…

noun

A portion of food served to one person at one time.

Usage examples:

There will be enough for six helpings

verb

Make it easier or possible for (someone) to do something by offering one's services or resources.

Usage examples:

They helped her with domestic chores

noun

An amount of food served to a person at one time

Usage examples:

He took another helping of dessert.

verb

Raise (one's shoulders) and bend the top of one's body forward.

Usage examples:

Eliot hunched his shoulders against a gust of snow

noun

A feeling or guess based on intuition rather than fact.

Usage examples:

I have a hunch that someone is telling lies

noun

An idea that is based on feeling and for which there is no proof

Usage examples:

[ + that clause ] i had a hunch that you’d be here., [ i ] we gathered in a circle and hunched over…

noun

A large piece of something, especially food, cut or broken off a larger piece.

Usage examples:

A hunk of bread

noun

A compact mass of a substance, especially one without a definite or regular shape.

Usage examples:

There was a lump of ice floating in the milk

verb

Put in an indiscriminate mass or group; treat as alike without regard for particulars.

Usage examples:

Hong kong and bangkok tend to be lumped together in holiday brochures

verb

Accept or tolerate a disagreeable situation whether one likes it or not.

Usage examples:

You can like it or lump it but i've got to work

noun

A portion of an object or of material, produced by cutting, tearing, or breaking the whole.

Usage examples:

A piece of cheese

verb

Assemble something from parts or pieces.

Usage examples:

The dinosaur was pieced together from 119 bones

noun

A part of something

Usage examples:

A piece of cake/chicken/pizza, the vase lay on the floor in pieces (= broken into small parts)., sh…

noun

A part of a whole.

Usage examples:

A portion of the jetty still stands

verb

Divide (something) into parts; share out.

Usage examples:

Every month you send the agency a single payment that is portioned out to each of your creditors un…

noun

A thin slice of bacon.

Usage examples:

Two rashers of lean bacon

adjective

Acting or done without careful consideration of the possible consequences; impetuous.

Usage examples:

It would be extremely rash to make such an assumption

noun

A thin flat piece of bacon

adjective

Shaped like a circle or cylinder.

Usage examples:

She was seated at a small, round table

noun

A circular piece of something.

Usage examples:

Cut the pastry into rounds

adverb

So as to rotate or cause rotation; with circular motion.

Usage examples:

A plane circled round overhead

noun

An edible bivalve mollusc with a ribbed fan-shaped shell. scallops swim by rapidly opening and closing the shell valves.

Usage examples:

Remove the scallops from their shells by gently scraping and prising them away with a blunt knife, …

verb

Another term for escalope.

noun

A sea creature with two joined, flat, round shells, or the thick, round muscle of this animal eaten as food

noun

Any of the more or less distinct parts into which something is or may be divided or from which it is made up.

Usage examples:

I unscrewed every section of copper pipe, from the roof tank to the hot-water cylinder

verb

Divide into sections.

Usage examples:

She began to section the grapefruit

noun

A part of something

Usage examples:

Dad always reads the sports section of the newspaper., he lived in a poor section of town., you’ll …

noun

Each of the parts into which something is or may be divided.

Usage examples:

A large segment of the local population

verb

Divide (something) into separate parts or sections.

Usage examples:

The unemployed are segmented into two groups

One of several parts that fit with others to make a whole

noun

A thin strip cut off a surface.

Usage examples:

She brushed wood shavings from her knees

verb

(of a man) cut the hair off the face with a razor.

Usage examples:

He washed, shaved, and had breakfast

adjective

For using when you shave

Usage examples:

A shaving brush, shaving cream/gel, shaving foam

noun

A large, thick, flat piece of stone or concrete, typically square or rectangular in shape.

Usage examples:

Paving slabs

verb

Remove slabs from (a log or tree) to prepare it for sawing into planks.

Usage examples:

He slabbed the log on the two other remaining sides to make a rectangular timber

noun

A small, thin piece of something cut or split off a larger piece.

Usage examples:

A sliver of cheese

verb

Cut (something, especially food) into small, thin pieces.

Usage examples:

Sliver the blanched almonds, chop the pistachios, and set them aside

noun

A thin, sharp piece, usually broken off something larger

Usage examples:

The glass smashed into slivers., i just want a sliver of cake.

noun

A thin, light, crisp biscuit, especially one of a kind eaten with ice cream.

Usage examples:

Remove the ice cream from the mould and serve with wafer biscuits or ice cream topping.

verb

Fasten or seal (a letter or document) with a wafer.

Usage examples:

The document was originally tied with narrow red and blue ribbons, which were attached to the signa…

noun

A piece of wood, metal, etc. having one thick end and tapering to a thin edge, that is driven between two objects or parts of an object to secure or separate them.

Usage examples:

The door was secured by a wedge

verb

Fix in position using a wedge.

Usage examples:

The door was wedged open

verb

Prepare (pottery clay) for use by cutting, kneading, and throwing down to homogenize it and remove air pockets.

Usage examples:

The photo shows this as if you are facing the person wedging the clay.

noun

A large piece or amount of something.

Usage examples:

He slapped a wodge of notes down on the counter

noun

A thick piece or a large amount of something

Usage examples:

She cut herself a great wodge of chocolate cake., he hurried towards the staffroom with a wodge of …