bite vs slice

bite

verb
  • To cut into something by clamping the teeth. 

  • To attack with the teeth. 

  • To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing. 

  • To behave aggressively; to reject advances. 

  • To take or keep a firm hold. 

  • To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to. 

  • To take hold; to establish firm contact with. 

  • To sting. 

  • To have significant effect, often negative. 

  • To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent. 

  • To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure. 

  • To perform oral sex on. Used in invective. 

  • To hold something by clamping one's teeth. 

  • To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck. 

  • To plagiarize, to imitate. 

  • To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught. 

  • To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor. 

noun
  • A small meal or snack. 

  • The wound left behind after having been bitten. 

  • Something unpleasant. 

  • The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting. 

  • aggression 

  • A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money. 

  • The act of biting. 

  • A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful. 

  • The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another. 

  • A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper. 

  • An act of plagiarism. 

slice

verb
  • To cut into slices. 

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

  • 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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