A slice is a thin piece of something. Think about cutting into a pizza and getting a small portion.
When people talk about slices, they usually mean food, but it can be other things too. Imagine you're baking a cake and want to try a small taste - that's a slice. On the other hand, if you're talking about a city or a neighborhood, an architect might divide it into slices to design buildings. In these cases, "slice" means dividing something into smaller parts or sections for easier handling or study.
How common is "slice"?
Word slice is considered uncommon in modern English. It appears most frequently in magazine texts and less often in other writings.
Definitions
noun
That which is thin and broad.
A thin, broad piece cut off.
Example: Jim was munching on a slice of toast.
An amount of anything.
A piece of pizza.
A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
Example: 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.
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verb
To cut into slices.
Example: Slice the cheese thinly.
To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
Example: The knife left sliced his arm.
To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
