Slice vs Stab - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between slice and stab

is that slice is to hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player) while stab is a single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.

In transitive terms the difference between slice and stab

is that slice is to clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar while stab is to thrust in a stabbing motion.

As nouns the difference between slice and stab

is that slice is that which is thin and broad while stab is an act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.

As verbs the difference between slice and stab

is that slice is to cut into slices while stab is to pierce or to wound (somebody) with a pointed tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.

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.

* 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

External links

* (commonslite)

Anagrams

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stab

English

(wikipedia stab)

Noun

(en noun)

An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.

A wound made by stabbing.

Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.

(informal) An attempt.

I'll give this thankless task a stab .

Criticism.

(music) A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.

a horn stab

Derived terms

* have a stab at, take a stab at * stabbing * stabby * stab vest * stab in the dark * stab in the back

Verb

(stabb)

To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a pointed tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.

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, title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“There the cause of death was soon ascertained?; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”}}

To thrust in a stabbing motion.

To recklessly hit with the tip of a pointed object, such as a weapon or finger .

* (John Dryden)

None shall dare / With shortened sword to stab in closer war.

To cause a sharp, painful sensation .

(figurative) To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.

Derived terms

* stabber

Anagrams

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