Slice vs Length - What's the difference?
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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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, title=Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom
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To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
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* Robert Frost
(horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
(mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
(cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
(figuratively) Total extent.
Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
(obsolete) To lengthen.
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As nouns the difference between slice and length
is that slice is that which is thin and broad while length is the distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.As verbs the difference between slice and length
is that slice is to cut into slices while length is to lengthen.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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Derived terms
* sliceableExternal links
* (commonslite)Anagrams
* * ----length
English
Noun
(en noun)- Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length .
- the length of a book
- a length of rope
Derived terms
* arm's length * at length * cable length * feature-length * floor-length * focal length * full-length * good length * go to great lengths * half-length * knee-length * lengthen * lengthful * length overall * lengthways * lengthwise * lengthy * line and length * null patch length * overlength * path length * screening length * short of a length * wavelength * zero-length launchingVerb
(en verb)- Pack night, peep day; good day, of night now borrow: / Short night, to-night, and length thyself to-morrow.
