different between thickness vs slice
thickness
English
Etymology
From Middle English thikkenesse, thiknesse, from Old English þicnes (“thickness, viscosity, density, hardness; obscurity, cloud, darkness; thicket; depth, a thick body, anything thick or heavy”), equivalent to thick +? -ness. Eclipsed non-native Middle English crassitude (“thickness”) from Latin crassit?d? (“thickness”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???kn?s/
- Hyphenation: thick?ness
Noun
thickness (countable and uncountable, plural thicknesses)
- (uncountable) The property of being thick (in dimension).
- (uncountable) A measure of how thick (in dimension) something is.
- The thickness of the Earth's crust varies from two to 70 kilometres.
- (countable) A layer.
- We upholstered the seat with three thicknesses of cloth to make it more comfortable to sit on.
- (uncountable) The quality of being thick (in consistency).
- Whip the cream until it reaches a good thickness.
- (uncountable, informal) The property of being thick (slow to understand).
Synonyms
- (the property of being thick in dimension): fatness
- (measure): depth
- (layer): layer, stratum
- (in consistency): density, viscosity
- (property of being stupid): denseness, slowness, stupidity, thickheadedness
Antonyms
- (in consistency): fluidity, liquidity, runniness, thinness, wateriness
- (property of being stupid): mental acuity, mental agility, quick-wittedness, sharpness
Translations
Further reading
- Thickness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Nitschkes, shitnecks, tschinkes
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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
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