slice vs split

slice

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

  • 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 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. 

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. 

split

noun
  • A split-finger fastball. 

  • A dessert or confection resembling a banana split. 

  • A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle. 

  • The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race. 

  • A recording containing songs by multiple artists. 

  • A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi. 

  • A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn. 

  • A tear resulting from tensile stresses. 

  • A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment. 

  • A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down. 

  • The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a speedrun. 

  • A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliters or one quarter of a standard 75-centiliter bottle. Commercially comparable to ¹⁄₂₀ (US) gallon, which is ¹⁄₂ of a fifth. 

  • A maneuver of spreading or sliding the feet apart until the legs are flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor in an upright position. 

  • One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses. 

  • A split shot or split stroke. 

  • A crack or longitudinal fissure. 

  • A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division. 

adj
  • Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso. 

  • Given in sixteenths rather than eighths. 

  • Divided. 

  • Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others. 

  • Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary. 

  • Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price. 

verb
  • To factor into linear factors. 

  • To separate. 

  • To leave. 

  • To be broken; to be dashed to pieces. 

  • To vote for candidates of opposite parties. 

  • For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another. 

  • To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line. 

  • To share; to divide. 

  • To burst out laughing. 

  • To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line. 

  • To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord. 

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