slice

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A thin broad piece cut from a larger object.
• noun An often wedge-shaped piece cut from a larger, usually circular object.
• noun A portion or share.
• noun A knife with a broad, thin, flexible blade, used for cutting and serving food.
• noun A similar implement for spreading printing ink.
• noun The course of a ball that curves in the direction of the dominant hand of the player propelling it, as to the right of a right-handed player.
• noun A stroke that causes a ball to follow such a course.
• noun A ball propelled on such a course.
• noun A stroke, as in tennis, in which the ball is struck with a downward motion with the open face of the racket in order to impart backspin.
• intransitive verb To cut or divide into slices.
• intransitive verb To cut from a larger piece.
• intransitive verb To cut through or move through with an action like cutting.
• intransitive verb To divide into portions or shares; parcel out.
• intransitive verb To reduce or remove from a larger amount or entity.
• intransitive verb Sports To hit (a ball) with a slice.
• intransitive verb To make a cut with a cutting implement.
• intransitive verb To move like a knife.
• intransitive verb Sports To hit a ball with a slice.
• idiom (any way/no matter how) No matter how you look at it; no matter how it is analyzed.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To cut into slices, or relatively broad, thin pieces: as, to slice bread, bacon, or an apple.
• To remove in the form of a slice: sometimes with off or out: as, to slice off a piece of something.
• To cut; divide.
• [In the following passage the word is used interjectionally, with no clear meaning.
• noun A mill or machine for slitting or dividing gems.
• noun In golf, the side spin imparted to a ball which causes it to curve to the right in the case of a right-handed player, or the reverse in the case of a left-handed player.
• In golf, to draw the face of the club across (the ball) from right to left in the act of hitting it, the result being that it will travel with a curve toward the right; or the reverse for a left-handed player. W. Park, Jr., Game of Golf, glossary.
• To break with a bar. Bituminous coal, when burned, fuses and forms a solid mass which must be broken up in this manner.
• In golf, to cause the ball, when struck with the club, to curve from left to right in the case of a right-handed player, or the reverse in the case of a left-handed player.
• noun A thin broad piece cut off from something: as, a slice of bread or of bacon: often used figuratively.
• noun A shiver; a splinter.
• noun Something thin and broad.
• noun In printing:
• noun A small spade-shaped iron tool with which printing-ink is taken out of a tub and conveyed to an ink-trough or -fountain.
• noun The sliding bottom of a slice-galley.
• noun A bar used by whalers to strip fish with.
• noun A tapering piece of plank driven between the timbers of a ship before planking. Also called slicer.
• noun A wedge driven under the keel of a ship when launching.
• noun A bar with a chisel or spear-headed end, used for stripping off the sheathing or planking of ships.
• noun A utensil for turning over meat in the frying-pan and for similar purposes. The form is like that of a trowel, the blade being three or four inches wide, twice as long, and often pierced with holes. Also called turn-over.
• noun A broad, thin knife, usually of silver, for dividing and serving fish at table. Also called fish-slice.
• noun A bakers' shovel or peel.
• noun A salver, platter, or tray.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To cut into thin pieces, or to cut off a thin, broad piece from.
• transitive verb To cut into parts; to divide.
• transitive verb To clear by means of a slice bar, as a fire or the grate bars of a furnace.
• transitive verb (Golf) To hit (the ball) so that the face of the club draws across the face of the ball and deflects it.