Pasty vs Slice - What's the difference?
pasty | slice |
Like paste, sticky.
pale, lacking colour, having a pallor
(slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) white-skinned
A small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a woman's breast, primarily worn by female exotic dancers.
* {{quote-book
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, title=Suzi Sinzinnati: A Novel
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, publisher=Kensington Publishing Corporation
, author=Irene Pence
, title=Buried Memories
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, passage=One of the experienced dancers dabbed a bit of rubber cement inside a silver-sequinned pasty and told Betty to place it over her nipple}}
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, date=February 02
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, publisher=Jeffry S. Hepple
, author=Jeffry S. Hepple
, title=The Treasure of La Malinche
, chapter=Mancha, Mexico
, volume=2
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, isbn=9780984118229
, page=164
, passage="What's a pasty'?" ¶ "That's what strippers and showgirls used to wear to cover their nipples in teh old, tamer days of yore. They were round paper disks with spangles on one side and paste on the other; hence the term ' pasty ."}}
A type of seasoned meat and vegetable pie, usually of a semicircular or distinctive shape. A (savory) hand pie.
That which is thin and broad.
A thin, broad piece cut off.
amount
* {{quote-news
, year=2010
, date=December 28
, author=Owen Phillips
, title=Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool
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A piece of pizza.
* 2010 , Andrea Renzoni, ?Eric Renzoni, Fuhgeddaboudit! (page 22)
(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)
* {{quote-news
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, date=October 22
, author=Sam Sheringham
, 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.
As nouns the difference between pasty and slice
is that pasty is a small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a woman's breast, primarily worn by female exotic dancers while slice is that which is thin and broad.As an adjective pasty
is like paste, sticky.As a verb slice is
to cut into slices.pasty
English
Etymology 1
From .Adjective
(er)- These mashed potatoes aren’t cooked well, they are very pasty .
- He is pasty -faced.
- (figuratively) He was feeling pasty .
- Are you feeling OK? You look a bit pasty .
Synonyms
* (pale) pale, pallidNoun
(pasties)citation, pageurl= , isbn=9780916366568 , page=29 , passage=Nonchalantly she bared one succulent pasty -topped breast.}}
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citation, passage=There really is no other purpose for wearing a pasty than to avoid being arrested for indecency. }}
citation, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=FLK2cwcv_JMC&pg=PA164&dq=pasty+stripper+bosom, breast, nipple, exotic+-cornish&ei=kGtQTP_LO4KezASv4ImgDQ&cd=4
Etymology 2
From (etyl) paste and (etyl) .Alternative forms
* pastieNoun
(pasties)Usage notes
The spelling pasty'' is considered correct in the United Kingdom but in Australia the spelling ''pastie is the more common.Derived terms
* Cornish pasty * nasty pasty * party pastySee also
* meat pie * sausage roll *BBC: Who, What, Why: What exactly is a Cornish pasty?
slice
English
Noun
(en noun)- a slice''' of bacon''; ''a '''slice''' of cheese''; ''a '''slice of bread
citation, page= , passage=Blackpool, chasing a seventh win in 17 league matches, simply could not contain Sunderland's rampant attack and had to resort to a combination of last-ditch defending, fine goalkeeping and a large slice of fortune. }}
- 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.
citation, page= , passage=Chris Brunt sliced the spot-kick well wide but his error was soon forgotten as Olsson headed home from a corner. }}