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That which is thin and broad.

A thin, broad piece cut off. +

(colloquial) An amount of anything.

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

(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). +

(cricket) A kind of cut shot where the bat makes an obtuse angle with the batter.

(UK) 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.

To cut into slices.

To cut with an edge using a drawing motion.

To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.

(badminton) To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.

(golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).

(rowing) To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.

(soccer) To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.

(tennis) To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.

(mathematics) Having the properties of a slice knot.