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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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twist
English
Etymology
From Middle English twist, from Old English *twist, in compounds (e.g. mæsttwist (“a rope; stay”), candeltwist (“a wick”)), from Proto-Germanic *twistaz, a derivative of *twi- (“two-”) (compare also twine, between, betwixt).
Related to Saterland Frisian Twist (“discord”), Dutch twist (“twist; strife; discord”), German Low German Twist (“strife; discord”), German Zwist (“turmoil; strife; discord”), Swedish tvist (“quarrel; dispute”), Icelandic tvistur (“deuce”).
The verb is from Middle English twisten. Compare Dutch twisten, Danish tviste (“to dispute”), Swedish tvista (“to argue; dispute”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: tw?st, IPA(key): /tw?st/, [tw??st]
- Rhymes: -?st
Noun
twist (plural twists)
- A twisting force.
- Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
- 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children Chapter 8
- Peter was always proud afterwards when he remembered that, with the Bargee's furious fingers tightening on his ear, the Bargee's crimson countenance close to his own, the Bargee's hot breath on his neck, he had the courage to speak the truth.
- "I wasn't catching fish," said Peter.
- "That's not your fault, I'll be bound," said the man, giving Peter's ear a twist—not a hard one—but still a twist.
- Not the least turn or twist in the fibres of any one animal which does not render them more proper for that particular animal's way of life than any other cast or texture.
- 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children Chapter 8
- The form given in twisting.
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
- [He] shrunk at first sight of it; he found fault with the length, the thickness, and the twist.
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
- The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
- A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 140:
- I was one morning walking arm in arm with him in St James's Park, his dress then being […] waistcoat and breeches of the same blue satin, trimmed with silver twist à la hussarde, and ermine edges.
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 140:
- A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
- 2005, Theodore J. Albasini, The Progeny
- Bunny sat on the only remaining stool at the leather-padded oval bar in the Iron Lounge. It was happy hour, two drinks for the price of one. She decided on a martini with a twist, and while the bartender was preparing her drink, she scanned the faces looking at the bar.
- 2005, Theodore J. Albasini, The Progeny
- A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
- A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
- An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
- (preceded by definite article) A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
- A rotation of the body when diving.
- A sprain, especially to the ankle.
- (obsolete) A twig.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairfax to this entry?)
- (slang) A girl, a woman.
- 1990, Miller's Crossing, 01:08:20
- (Dane, speaking about a woman character) "I'll see where the twist flops"
- 1990, Miller's Crossing, 01:08:20
- A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
- A small roll of tobacco.
- A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
- The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
- (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
- A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
- a twist toward fanaticism
- (slang, archaic) An appetite for food.
- 1861, The Farmer's Magazine (page 40)
- He [the yearling bull] had a good handsome male head, and he had a capital twist. He had a spring in his rib, and was something over seven feet in girth. He was well covered, and had all the recommendations of quality, symmetry, and size.
- 1861, The Farmer's Magazine (page 40)
Descendants
- German: Twist
Translations
Verb
twist (third-person singular simple present twists, present participle twisting, simple past and past participle twisted)
- To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
- To join together by twining one part around another.
- 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 15
- "Well, one day I went up in a balloon and the ropes got twisted, so that I couldn't come down again. It went way up above the clouds, so far that a current of air struck it and carried it many, many miles away. For a day and a night I traveled through the air, and on the morning of the second day I awoke and found the balloon floating over a strange and beautiful country."
- 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 15
- To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
- June 8, 1714, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift
- twisting it into a serpentine form.
- June 8, 1714, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift
- To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
- 1645, Edmund Waller, To my Lord of Falkland
- longing to twist bays with that ivy
- 1844, Robert Chambers, "Dr Thomas Burnet" in Cyclopædia of English Literature
- There are pillars of smoke twisted about wreaths of flame.
- 1645, Edmund Waller, To my Lord of Falkland
- (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
- Avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
- To turn a knob etc.
- To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
- To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
- To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
- 1913, George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion Act V
- Oh, you are a devil. You can twist the heart in a girl as easy as some could twist her arms to hurt her. Mrs. Pearce warned me. Time and again she has wanted to leave you; and you always got round her at the last minute. And you don't care a bit for her. And you don't care a bit for me.
- 1901, Henry Lawson, Joe Wilson's Courtship
- Then Romany went down, then we fell together, and the chaps separated us. I got another knock-down blow in, and was beginning to enjoy the novelty of it, when Romany staggered and limped.
- ‘I’ve done,’ he said. ‘I’ve twisted my ankle.’ He’d caught his heel against a tuft of grass.
- 1913, George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion Act V
- (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
- 1926, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, He
- My coming to New York had been a mistake; for whereas I had looked for poignant wonder and inspiration in the teeming labyrinths of ancient streets that twist endlessly from forgotten courts and squares and waterfronts to courts and squares and waterfronts equally forgotten, and in the Cyclopean modern towers and pinnacles that rise blackly Babylonian under waning moons, I had found instead only a sense of horror and oppression which threatened to master, paralyze, and annihilate me.
- 1926, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, He
- (transitive) To cause to rotate.
- 1911, John Masefield, Jim Davis Chapter 8
- The tide seized us and swept us along, and in the races where this happened there were sucking whirlpools, strong enough to twist us round.
- 1911, John Masefield, Jim Davis Chapter 8
- (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
- (transitive) To coax.
- 1932, Robert E. Howard, Dark Shanghai
- "On the three-thousand-dollar reward John Bain is offerin' for the return of his sister," said Ace. "Now listen--I know a certain big Chinee had her kidnapped outa her 'rickshaw out at the edge of the city one evenin'. He's been keepin' her prisoner in his house, waitin' a chance to send her up-country to some bandit friends of his'n; then they'll be in position to twist a big ransome outa John Bain, see? [...]"
- 1932, Robert E. Howard, Dark Shanghai
- (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
Antonyms
(in blackjack, be dealt another card):: stick; stay
Translations
Derived terms
Anagrams
- twits, witts
Czech
Etymology
From English twist.
Noun
twist m
- twist (dance)
Further reading
- twist in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
- twist in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Etymology
From English twist.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?st
Noun
twist m (uncountable, diminutive twistje n)
- strife, discord
- dispute
- twist: dance, turn
Derived terms
- redetwist
- twistappel
Anagrams
- witst
Finnish
Etymology
From English twist.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?twist/, [?t?wis?t?]
- IPA(key): /?t?ist/, [?t??is?t?]
- Rhymes: -ist
- Syllabification: twist
Noun
twist
- twist (dance)
Declension
Derived terms
- twistata
French
Etymology
From English twist.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /twist/
Noun
twist m (plural twists)
- twist (dance)
Derived terms
- twister
Further reading
- “twist” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English
Alternative forms
- twest, tweste, twyst, twyste
Etymology
Old English *twist, attested in compounds (e.g. mæsttwist (“a rope; stay”), candeltwist (“a wick”)), from Proto-Germanic *twistaz.
Noun
twist (plural twists)
- the flat part of a hinge (less specifically the entire hinge)
- a forked twig
- a bifurcation
- the groin
Descendants
- English: twist
Related terms
- twisten (verb)
References
- “twist, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Portuguese
Etymology
From English twist.
Noun
twist m (uncountable)
- twist (type of dance)
Spanish
Etymology
From English twist.
Noun
twist m (plural twists)
- twist
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