section vs slice

section

verb
  • To cut, divide or separate into pieces. 

  • To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope. 

  • To perform a cesarean section on (someone). 

  • To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health. 

noun
  • The symbol §, denoting a section of a document. 

  • An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks. 

  • A piece of residential land; a plot. 

  • Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadan surveys and (historical) American land grants. 

  • A sequence of rock layers. 

  • A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research. 

  • A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year. 

  • A right inverse. 

  • A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight. 

  • A group of instruments in an orchestra. 

  • An act or instance of cutting. 

  • A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something. 

  • A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane). 

  • An incision or the act of making an incision. 

  • A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species. 

  • A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon. 

  • A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §. 

  • A part, piece, subdivision of anything. 

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. 

How often have the words section and slice occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )