foot vs slice

foot

verb
  • To use the foot to kick (usually a ball). 

  • To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up. 

  • To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip. 

  • To walk. 

  • To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.). 

  • To pay (a bill). 

noun
  • The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest. 

  • The basic measure of rhythm in a poem. 

  • Travel by walking. 

  • The end of a rectangular table opposite the head. 

  • In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant. 

  • The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward. 

  • The bottom edge of a sail. 

  • A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres. 

  • The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove. 

  • A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it. 

  • A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg. 

  • A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm. 

  • The bottommost part of a typed or printed page. 

  • Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking. 

  • The base or bottom of anything. 

  • The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads. 

  • The globular lower domain of a protein. 

  • The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface. 

  • Fundamental principle; basis; plan. 

  • The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it. 

  • Foot soldiers; infantry. 

  • Recognized condition; rank; footing. 

  • The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting. 

  • The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked. 

slice

verb
  • To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high. 

  • To cut into slices. 

  • To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player). 

  • To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion. 

  • To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke. 

  • To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar. 

  • To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce. 

  • To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards. 

noun
  • A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.) 

  • A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle. 

  • A contiguous portion of an array. 

  • A removable sliding bottom to a galley. 

  • A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling. 

  • That which is thin and broad. 

  • One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching. 

  • A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw 

  • A thin, broad piece cut off. 

  • A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray. 

  • Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices. 

  • A salver, platter, or tray. 

  • A broad, thin piece of plaster. 

  • An amount of anything. 

  • A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink. 

  • 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. 

adj
  • Having the properties of a slice knot. 

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