slice

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Devouring a slice is a process that involves all the senses: the aroma coming from the oven, the sight of the molten cheese, the feel of the cornmeal-dusted crust in your hands, the sound of the crunch as you bite into it.

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  1. noun A thin broad piece cut from a larger object: ate a slice of cheese; examined a slice of the diseased lung.
  2. noun An often wedge-shaped piece cut from a larger, usually circular object: ordered a slice of pie; shared a slice of pizza.
  3. noun A portion or share: a slice of the profits.
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  • "This is what I call a slice of the good life, Unc His eyes on the distant cluster of gray domes which made up the Walbrook lab complex, Thad said, "It's greener than Connecticut. —  BEN BOVA Editor
  • Any spectators looking for a slice or, heaven forbid, a drop-shot, however, would have been driven to seek solace on another court early in the contest. —  The Championships, Wimbledon 2009 - Grand Slam Tennis - Official Site by IBM
  • Audience members will have the chance to savor the passion that goes into each layer, slice, and spread of this new foodie favorite.
  • Program slicing is applied to the software maintenance problem by extending the notion of a program slice (that originally required both a variable and line number) to a decomposition slice, one that captures all computation on a given variable, i.e., is independent of line numbers. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The Giddy Tigress says: Got got … * goes and cuts LB a slice* —  Giddy Tigers
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chunk ·  sandwich ·  dish ·  sauce ·  cake ·  onion ·  pie ·  butter ·  juice ·  ham ·  loaf ·  piece

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slice:   slices ·  slicing ·  sliced
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, splinter, from Old French esclice, from esclicier, to splinter, of Germanic origin.

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  1. Early modern English also slise, sclice, sclise, sklise; from Middle English slice, slyce, sclice, sclyce, sklyce, sclyse, from Old French esclice (Walloon sklice), a shiver, splinter, broken piece of wood, from esclicer, esclicier, esclichier, slice, slit, from Old High German slīzan, sclīzan, Middle High German slīzen, German schleissen, slice, slit, = Anglo-Saxon slītan, later English slit: see slit. Cf. slash, slat. slate, from the same source.
  2. from Middle English slycen; from slice, n.
 

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