slice

slice is a 5-letter English word with 21 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 21 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.
2. transitive verb. That which is thin and broad, like a slice.
3. transitive verb. A broad, thin piece of plaster.
4. transitive verb. A salver, platter, or tray.
5. transitive verb. A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
6. transitive verb. 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.
7. transitive verb. One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
8. transitive verb. A removable sliding bottom to galley.
9. transitive verb. To cut into thin pieces, or to cut off a thin, broad piece from.
10. transitive verb. To cut into parts; to divide.
11. transitive verb. To clear by means of a slice bar, as a fire or the grate bars of a furnace.
12. noun. a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer

    "he took lessons to cure his slicing"

    Synonyms: fade, slicing

13. noun. a spatula for spreading paint or ink
14. noun. a serving that has been cut from a larger portion

    "a piece of pie"

    "a slice of bread"

    Synonyms: piece

15. noun. a thin flat piece cut off of some object
16. noun. a share of something

    "a slice of the company's revenue"

    Synonyms: piece

17. noun. a wound made by cutting

    "he put a bandage over the cut"

    Synonyms: cut, gash, slash

18. verb. hit a ball so that it causes a backspin
19. verb. cut into slices

    "Slice the salami, please"

20. verb. hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction
21. verb. make a clean cut through

    "slit her throat"

    Synonyms: slit

Synonyms

fade, slicing, piece, cut, gash, slash, slit

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in slice:

ceils, sicel, sicle

Common word forms

sliced, slicer, slices, slicing, sliceable

Words from these letters

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