SLICES Synonyms: 96 Similar and Opposite Words

slices 1 of 2

noun

plural of slice

as in samples

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

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as in cuttings

a piece that has been separated from the whole by cutting took a slice from the cake before passing it down the table

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as in portions

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

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slices

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of slice

as in chops

to cut into long slender pieces slice the carrot into tiny strips

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as in slits

to penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife) the shard of glass sliced my hand, and I started bleeding profusely

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Recent Examples of slices

Noun

Ambrosia salad called to me with its pill-bottle-bright mandarin slices. —

Literary Hub, 3 June 2026 For those staying at Elang Private Residence, meals can be directed by the guests or left to the chef, serving up, say, lamb satay on sugarcane skewers, seafood with mango sambal, slices of rare beef with tiny pots of rendang sauce. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 June 2026 The towering, house made Triple Chocolate Cake and Coconut Cream Cake may well be some of the best slices of cake in Houston. —

Melissa Liebling-Goldberg, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026 While a standard reversal shows these lines flattening out, the ultimate confirmation comes from a formal DMI crossover (when the green line slices cleanly above the red line). —

Nishant Pant, CNBC, 2 June 2026 That means cold watermelon slices after playing in sprinklers on the lawn, buckets of lemonade, long days at the beach or by the lake, and ice cream after staying up too late on warm nights. —

Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 2 June 2026 When Dean made banana pancakes, stray banana slices fell to the floor and got mashed into the linoleum by his stockinged feet. —

Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026 Add a kick to your sandwiches and burgers with slices of Monterey Jack cheese that are dotted with habanero and jalapeño peppers. —

Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 1 June 2026 At each Cake Picnic, most of my cake box ends up being chocolate cake slices! —

Kate Bradshaw, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2026

Verb

The hotel is on the corner of Mission Street, which slices diagonally through the city, and the Embarcadero, which hugs the waterfront from the Bay Bridge west to Fisherman’s Wharf. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026 The ones that are accepted are run through a machine that shakes the envelopes — this makes the ballot sink to the bottom of the envelope — and slices them open. —

Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 28 May 2026 Beau Neidhardt slices a Kale Caesar Cutlet hoagie. —

Susan Spencer, CBS News, 17 May 2026 The map slices through Kansas City, splitting the city’s voters across three Republican-leaning districts. —

Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2026 Toast 2–4 slices bread of choice (such as country-style sourdough or multigrain). —

Rebecca Firkser, Bon Appetit Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026 For one, Pashtun nationalists will always have problems with a border that slices their heartland in two. —

Mihir Sharma, Twin Cities, 8 Mar. 2026 Arrange slices 1 inch apart on prepared baking sheets. —

Anna Theoktisto, Southern Living, 21 Dec. 2025 Place slices 1 inch apart on prepared cookie sheets. —

Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Nov. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for slices

Noun

In laboratory tests, the team trained their plasma jet on samples of Staphylococcus caprae, a skin bacterium previously detected on the ISS.

— Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 2 June 2026
The daughter and Lynette Hooker’s parents provided mouth swab samples Thursday.

— Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 2 June 2026