slice

/slaɪs/

That which is thin and broad.

A thin, broad piece cut off.

Jim was munching on a slice of toast.

An amount of anything.

A piece of pizza.

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.

A removable sliding bottom to a galley.

A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw

Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.

A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.

A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)

A contiguous portion of an array.