Slice vs Dissect - What's the difference?

Slice is a related term of dissect.

In lang=en terms the difference between slice and dissect

is that slice is to clear (eg a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar while dissect is to analyze an idea in detail by separating it into its parts.

As verbs the difference between slice and dissect

is that slice is to cut into slices while dissect is to study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy.

As a noun slice

is that which is thin and broad.

slice

English

Noun

(en noun)

That which is thin and broad.

A thin, broad piece cut off.

a slice''' of bacon''; ''a '''slice''' of cheese''; ''a '''slice of bread

amount

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A piece of pizza.

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For breakfast, lunch, or dinner, the best Guido meal is a slice and a Coke.

(British) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.

I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.

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.)

Derived terms

* hyperslice

Verb

(slic)

To cut into slices.

Slice the cheese thinly.

To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.

The knife left sliced his arm.

(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.

Derived terms

* sliceable

External links

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dissect

English

Verb

(en verb)

To study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy.

To study a plant or other organism's anatomy similarly.

To analyze an idea in detail by separating it into its parts.

(transitive, anatomy, surgery) To separate muscles, organs, and so on without cutting into them or disrupting their architecture.

Now dissect the triceps away from its attachment on the humerus.

(pathology) Of an infection or foreign material, following the fascia separating muscles or other organs.

Derived terms

* dissection

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