slice

Definitions

• That which is thin and broad.
• A thin, broad piece cut off.
• (colloquial) An amount of anything.
• A piece of pizza.
• (British) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
• 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.
• (printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
• (golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
• (Australia) Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
• (medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
• (falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
• (programming) A contiguous portion of an array.