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Meaning:

Noun:

  • 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 piece of pizza.
  • 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.
  • A removable sliding bottom to galley.
  • A salver, platter, or tray.
  • A thin, broad piece cut off.
  • Australian English A class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
  • British A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
  • golf A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
  • medicine A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
  • One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
  • That which is thin and broad.

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Verb:

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

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