Examples from the Corpus

slice
• Spread the bread with the ginger and roll each slice up into a roll.
• Place four slices of pear on top, then cover each one with a slice of cheese.
• The beef was carved into slices so thin you could almost see through them.
• ''Would you like some more toast?'' ''Just one more slice, please.''
• To serve, set several orange slices alongside a slice of chocolate cake.
• I admired the thick slices of plum cake arranged on the plate.
• Cut the roast into thin slices.
• Traditionally, this cooling requirement has been accomplished using slices of solid carbon dioxide, better known as dry ice.
• Up ahead, the lights and sounds of the road were a thin vertical slice of freedom.
• Line 9-inch pie pan with 1 / 2 dough and arrange yam slices on it.
Cut ... into slices
• Cut whole lemons into slices, open-freeze on trays, then pack into polythene bags.
• Pare fine strips of rind from the remaining lemons, and cut each lemon into slices.
• Unmould the stuffing, cut it into slices and serve with the duck.
• The lettuce was cut up into slices and had a mustard with small teeth inside it.
1 [transitive] (also slice up) to cut meat, bread, vegetables etc into thin flat pieces → chop
Thinly slice the cucumbers.
Slice up the onions and add them to the meat.
sliced ham
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2 [intransitive, transitive always + adverb/preposition] to cut something easily with one movement of a sharp knife or edge
slice into/through
The blade’s so sharp it could slice through your finger.
slice something in two/half
Slice the eggs in two and arrange them on a serving dish.
3 [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] to move quickly and easily through something such as water or air
slice through/into
The boat was slicing through the sparkling waves.
4 [transitive] to hit a ball, for example in tennis or golf, so that it spins sideways instead of moving straight forward
With an open goal in front of him, Wiltord sliced his shot wide of the left post.
slice1 /slaɪs/ ●●● S3 noun [countable]
1 Image of slicea thin flat piece of food cut from a larger piece
slice of
a slice of bread
pizza slices
thin/thick slice
a thin slice of ham
Cut the tomatoes into slices.
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2 a part or share of something
slice of
Everybody wants a slice of the profits.
3 → fish slice
4 a way of hitting the ball in sports such as tennis or golf, that makes the ball go to one side with a spinning movement, rather than straight ahead
5 → a slice of life
COLLOCATIONS
ADJECTIVES
a thin slice
Serve it with thin slices of bread and butter.
a thick slice
Cut the aubergine into thick slices.
a large/big slice
He was eating a large slice of chocolate cake.
a small slice
She politely accepted a small slice of pie.
a generous slice (=thick or big)
He cut Donald a generous slice of ham.
VERBS
cut a slice
He cut another slice of bread.
cut something into slices
Cut the orange into thin slices.