Flake vs Slice - What's the difference?
flake | slice |
A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, paint, or fish.
(archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
(informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
To break or chip off in a flake.
(colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
(technical) To store an item such as rope in layers
(Ireland, slang) to hit (another person).
(UK) Dogfish.
(Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
* 1999 , R. Shotton, , Case studies of the management of elasmobranch fisheries , Part 1,
* 2007 , Archie Gerzee, WOW! Tales of a Larrikin Adventurer ,
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(UK, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
* English Husbandman
(nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
That which is thin and broad.
A thin, broad piece cut off.
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A piece of pizza.
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(British) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
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 salver, platter, or tray.
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.
One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
(printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
(golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
(Australia, NZ) A class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
(medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
(falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
To cut into slices.
To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
(golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
(soccer)
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To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
As nouns the difference between flake and slice
is that flake is a loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, paint, or fish while slice is that which is thin and broad.As verbs the difference between flake and slice
is that flake is to break or chip off in a flake while slice is to cut into slices.flake
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- There were a few flakes of paint on the floor from when we were painting the walls.
- flakes of dandruff
- She makes pleasant conversation, but she's kind of a flake when it comes time for action.
Verb
- The paint flaked off after only a year.
- He said he'd come and help, but he flaked .
- The line is flaked into the container for easy attachment and deployment.
Derived terms
* flake off * flake outEtymology 2
A name given to dogfish to improve its marketability as a food, perhaps from etymology 1.Noun
(-)page 746,
- Larger shark received about 10%/kg less than those in the 4-6 kg range. Most of the Victorian landed product is wholesaled as carcasses on the Melbourne Fish Market where it is sold to fish and chip shops, the retail sector and through restaurants as ‘flake ’.
page 141,
- The local fish shop sold a bit of flake (shark) but most people were too spoiled to eat shark. The main item on the Kiwi table was still snapper, and there was plenty of them, caught by the Kiwis themselves, so no shortage whatsoever.
page 45,
- Until recently, deep-sea fish were considered to have insignificant levels of mercury but even these now contain higher levels than they used to, so you should also avoid the big fish like tuna, swordfish, and flake (shark) that are highest up the food chain.
Etymology 3
Compare Icelandic flaki''?, ''fleki''?, Danish ''flage'', Dutch ''vlaak .Noun
(en noun)- You shall also, after they be ripe, neither suffer them to have straw nor fern under them, but lay them either upon some smooth table, boards, or flakes of wands, and they will last the longer.
References
*slice
English
Noun
(en noun)- a slice''' of bacon''; ''a '''slice''' of cheese''; ''a '''slice of bread
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- For breakfast, lunch, or dinner, the best Guido meal is a slice and a Coke.
- I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.
Derived terms
* hypersliceVerb
(slic)- Slice the cheese thinly.
- The knife left sliced his arm.
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