Slicing vs Dicing - What's the difference?

slicing | dicing |


As nouns the difference between slicing and dicing

is that slicing is the action of the verb to slice while dicing is a game of dice.

As verbs the difference between slicing and dicing

is that slicing is while dicing is .

slicing

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The action of the verb to slice .
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=April 3, author=The New York Times, title=Art in Review, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Working on a monumental scale the artist Gordon Matta-Clark, from whose work the gallery takes its name, similarly redefined architecture in the 1970s, using massive slicings and excisions to suggest, among other things, the instability of the concept of property and the ephemerality of what we call real estate. Mr. Balula delivers something like the same message in a nutshell. }}

    Verb

    (head)

    • dicing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
    • Over the course of two sweltering days of rambling the West Bank, we squeeze through a thicket of visible and imaginary borders, fences, walls, frontiers, barriers, no-go zones. After a year steeped in the oceanic vistas of Arabia, of Africa, such a dicing of landscape into countless micro-turfs makes me dizzy.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A game of dice.
  • A fragment of diced food.
    • bacon dicings