slice

CEFRA2

/slaɪs/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A thin, flat piece cut from something.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A thin, broad piece cut off.

Examples

  • Please slice a loaf of bread for me.

  • Would you slice me a piece of ham, please?

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. An amount of anything.

  2. That which is thin and broad.

  3. A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.

More examples

In context

  • I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.

  • Jim was munching on a slice of toast.

  • a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread

Synonyms

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She cut a thin blank of bread from the loaf for breakfast.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

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.