Noun: slice
| Singular | slice |
| Plural | slices |
Sample Sentences
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I pulled in hand over hand on the cord, and when I judged myself near enough, rose at infinite risk to about half my height and thus commanded the roof and a slice of the interior of the cabin. [1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:]
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a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread
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Jim was munching on a slice of toast.
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Blackpool, chasing a seventh win in 17 league matches, simply could not contain Sunderland's rampant attack and had to resort to a combination of last-ditch defending, fine goalkeeping and a large slice of fortune. [2010 December 28, Owen Phillips, “Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool”, in BBC:]
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For breakfast, lunch, or dinner, the best Guido meal is a slice and a Coke. [2010, Andrea Renzoni, Eric Renzoni, Fuhgeddaboudit!, page 22:]
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I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.
Nouns inflected like slice
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English sclise, sklise, 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 *slitjaną, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“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 slīȥan (“to tear”), Old English slītan (“to split up”), modern French éclisse. More at slite, slit. See: Middle English Nouns '
sclise', Old English Nouns '
slītan', French Nouns '
éclisse'.
Verbs referencing "slice"
French Nouns
éclisse, Finnish Nouns
slaissi.