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A Slice

  1. That which is thin and broad.
  2. A thin, broad piece cut off. Synonyms: cutting, snippet
  3. (colloquial) An amount of anything.
  4. A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.
  5. (British) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
  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. Synonyms: banana ball, banana slice
  13. (cricket) A kind of cut shot where the bat makes an obtuse angle with the batter.
  14. (Australia, New Zealand, UK) Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
  15. (medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
  16. (falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
  17. (programming) A contiguous portion of an array.