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slice
English
Etymology
From Middle English slice, esclice, 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 *slitjan?, from Proto-Germanic *sl?tan? (“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 sl?zan (“to tear”), Old English sl?tan (“to split up”). More at slite, slit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sla?s/
- Rhymes: -a?s
Noun
slice (plural slices)
- That which is thin and broad.
- A thin, broad piece cut off.
- a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread
- (colloquial) An amount of anything.
- A piece of pizza.
- 2010, Andrea Renzoni, ?Eric Renzoni, Fuhgeddaboudit! (page 22)
- For breakfast, lunch, or dinner, the best Guido meal is a slice and a Coke.
- 2010, Andrea Renzoni, ?Eric Renzoni, Fuhgeddaboudit! (page 22)
- (Britain) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
- I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.
- A broad, thin piece of plaster.
- A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
- A salver, platter, or tray.
- 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.
- (printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
- (golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
- (Australia, New Zealand, Britain) Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
- (medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
- (falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
- (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)
- (transitive) To cut into slices.
- (transitive) To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
- (transitive) To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
- (transitive, badminton) To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
- (transitive, golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
- (transitive, rowing) To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
- (transitive, tennis) To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
slice (not comparable)
- (mathematics) Having the properties of a slice knot.
Further reading
- slice on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
- -sicle, Celis, ILECs, Leics, Sicel, ceils, ciels, clies, sicle
French
Pronunciation
Verb
slice
- first-person singular present indicative of slicer
- third-person singular present indicative of slicer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of slicer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of slicer
- second-person singular imperative of slicer
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *sleggio, from *sleg, from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, strike, throw”). See also Ancient Greek ?????? (lakíz?, “to tear apart”).
Noun
slice m (nominative plural slici)
- shell
Inflection
Derived terms
- slicén
Descendants
- Irish: slige
- Manx: shlig
- Scottish Gaelic: slige
References
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cube
English
Etymology 1
From Old French cube, from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek ????? (kúbos).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kyo?ob, IPA(key): /kju?b/
- (US) enPR: kyo?ob, IPA(key): /kjub/
- Rhymes: -u?b
Noun
cube (plural cubes)
- (geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
- Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
- (mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
- (computing) A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube
- A Rubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube
Synonyms
- (geometry: polyhedron having of six identical square faces): regular hexahedron (rare)
- (object in the form of a cube): block, brick, die, square block
- (number raised to the third power): third power
Hypernyms
- (geometry: polyhedron having of six identical square faces): hexahedron, cuboid
Translations
Verb
cube (third-person singular simple present cubes, present participle cubing, simple past and past participle cubed)
- (transitive, arithmetic) To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.
- (transitive) To form into the shape of a cube.
- (transitive) To cut into cubes.
- (Britain) to use a Rubik's cube.
Synonyms
- (to cut into cubes): dice
Translations
Derived terms
Related terms
- cubic
- cubical
- cuboid
- cubism
- cubist
See also
- line segment
- square
- tesseract
Etymology 2
Clipped form of cubicle (with intentional reference to their common shape per cube, etymology 1), which from Latin cubiculum (“a small bedchamber or lounge”), from cubare (“to lie down”).
Noun
cube (plural cubes)
- A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
- My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube.
Translations
Anagrams
- Cebu
French
Etymology
From Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek ????? (kúbos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kyb/
Noun
cube m (plural cubes)
- cube (all senses)
- third-grader
Adjective
cube (plural cubes)
- cubic
Verb
cube
- first-person singular present indicative of cuber
- third-person singular present indicative of cuber
- first-person singular present subjunctive of cuber
- third-person singular present subjunctive of cuber
- second-person singular imperative of cuber
Further reading
- “cube” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ube
Adjective
cube f
- feminine plural of cubo
Latin
Noun
cube
- vocative singular of cubus
Portuguese
Verb
cube
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of cubar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of cubar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of cubar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of cubar
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