slice

1 to cut into long slender pieces slice the carrot into tiny strips Synonyms sliver, splinterRelated Words chip, chop, dice, hash, julienne, mince; saw, scissor; cleave, rive, split; gash, incise, rip, slash, slit

2 to penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife) the shard of glass sliced my hand, and I started bleeding profusely Synonyms gash, incise, rip, shear, slash, cut, slitRelated Words crosscut, hacksaw, saw, scissor; cleave, rive, split; pierce, stab; bruise, butcher, hack, haggle, lacerate, mangle; rend, tear; carve, chip, chisel, notch; anatomize, dissect, section; chop, dice, mince; amputate, cut off, sever

1 a number of things selected from a group to stand for the whole the novel's multitudinous array of characters constitute a veritable slice of humanity Synonyms cross section, sampler, sampling, selection, sampleRelated Words case, example, exemplar, exemplification, illustration, instance, representative, specimen; archetype, classic, locus classicus, paradigm, prototype; microcosm

2 a piece that has been separated from the whole by cutting took a slice from the cake before passing it down the table Synonyms cutting, cutRelated Words chop, cutlet; length, part, portion, section, segment; chunk, hunk, lump; clipping, paring, shaving, sliver, snippet, splinter

3 something belonging to, due to, or contributed by an individual member of a group there's a pile of money to be made on this land deal, and everybody's trying to get their slice Synonyms allotment, allowance, cut, end, part, piece, portion, proportion, quota, share, takeRelated Words lot, ration; commission, percentage; member, partition, section, segmentNear Antonyms aggregate, composite, compound, pool, sum, total, totality; whole