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slice
has definitions from the fields of sport,golf,food,medicine,military
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[ noun ] a share of something
Synonyms Examples "a slice of the company's revenue" Used in print (Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)The first superhighways - New_York 's Henry_Hudson and Chicago 's Lake_Shore , San_Francisco 's Bay_Bridge and its approaches , a good slice of the Pennsylvania_Turnpike - were built as part of the federal works_program which was going_to cure the depression . (Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)Leaving the theatre after the performance , I had a flash of intuition that life , after_all ( as Rilke said ) , is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee , and that this unpretentious , moving , clever , bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks_Atkinson retired . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (food) a serving that has been cut from a larger portion
Synonyms Examples "a piece of pie" "a slice of bread" Used in print (Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)`` Slice o_' mutton , bhoy '' ? she had queried in her soft guttural . `` Slice o_' mutton '' ? |
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[ verb ] (golf) in golf: hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the right
Used in print (Alfred Wright, "A Duel Golfers Will Never Forget"...)The latter involved hitting a full four-wood out to the first fairway and toward the clubhouse , hoping to slice it back to the deeply bunkered 9 th green . |
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[ noun ] (sport,golf) a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer
Examples "he took lessons to cure his slicing" Used in print (The New York Times,...)The ball went off in a majestic arc , an out-of-bounds slice . Related terms |
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[ verb ] (military) hit a ball so that it causes a backspin
Used in print (The New York Times,...)He tried again and once_more sliced out_of_bounds . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a spatula for spreading paint or ink
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