different between slite vs slice

English

Alternative forms

• sleight, slight
• slyte (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English sliten, from Old English sl?tan (“to slit, tear, rend, shiver, split, rend to pieces, cleave, divide”), from Proto-West Germanic *sl?tan, from Proto-Germanic *sl?tan? (“to tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *skleyd-, *(s)kelH- (“to cut, trim”).

Cognate with North Frisian slitten (“to clear, make void”), Dutch slijten (“to wear, waste, ravel out”), German schleißen (“to trim”), Swedish slita (“to rip, tear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sla?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Verb

slite (third-person singular simple present slites, present participle sliting, simple past slit or slote or slited, past participle slit or slitten or slited)

1. (transitive, dialectal) To slit; tear or rip up.
2. (transitive, dialectal) To wear away (clothes).

Noun

slite (uncountable)

1. (dialectal) The act or process of ripping up; rending; wear and tear.

Anagrams

• IELTS, Leist, Steil, e-list, islet, istle, liest, lites, stile, teils, tiles

Irish

Alternative forms

• slighte (obsolete)

Noun

slite f

1. plural of slí

Mutation

Further reading

• "slite" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “slite” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “slite” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse slíta

Verb

slite (imperative slit, present tense sliter, passive slites, simple past slet or sleit, past participle slitt, present participle slitende)

1. to wear (ut / out)
2. to struggle (med / with)

Derived terms

• slitesterk
• nedslitt
• utslitt

References

• “slite” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

slite (present tense slit, past tense sleit, supine slite, past participle sliten, present participle slitande, imperative slit)

1. Alternative form of slita

Derived terms

• slitesterk

Adjective

slite

1. neuter singular of sliten

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)

1. That which is thin and broad.
2. A thin, broad piece cut off.

   a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread

3. (colloquial) An amount of anything.
4. 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.

5. (Britain) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.

   I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.

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
13. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain) Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
14. (medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
15. (falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
16. (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 utilizing 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.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

slice (not comparable)

1. (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

1. first-person singular present indicative of slicer
2. third-person singular present indicative of slicer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of slicer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of slicer
5. 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)

1. shell

Inflection

Derived terms

• slicén

Descendants

• Irish: slige
• Manx: shlig
• Scottish Gaelic: slige

References