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Slice vs Skerrick - What's the difference?

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Slice is a related term of skerrick.


In british|lang=en terms the difference between slice and skerrick

is that slice is (british) a snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling while skerrick is (british) a very small amount or portion, particularly used in the negative and chiefly in british and australian english.

As nouns the difference between slice and skerrick

is that slice is that which is thin and broad while skerrick is (british) a very small amount or portion, particularly used in the negative and chiefly in british and australian english.

As a verb slice

is to cut into slices.

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
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Owen Phillips , title=Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool , work=BBC 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. }}
  • A piece of pizza.
  • * 2010 , Andrea Renzoni, ?Eric Renzoni, Fuhgeddaboudit! (page 22)
    • 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)
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 22 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Chris Brunt sliced the spot-kick well wide but his error was soon forgotten as Olsson headed home from a corner. }}
  • To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.

    • Derived terms

    * sliceable

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    skerrick

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British) A very small amount or portion, particularly used in the negative and chiefly in British and Australian English.
  • * 2007, Kennedy Warne, Blue Haven , National Geographic (April 2007), 74,
    • "And all I can think is that they're seeing a crumb, a skerrick of what it once was".