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Slice can be a verb or a noun.

slice used as a verb:

  1. To cut into slices.
    "Slice the cheese thinly."
  2. To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

slice used as a noun:

  1. That which is thin and broad.
  2. A thin, broad piece cut off.
    "a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread"
  3. A piece of pizza.
    "I'll have a slice, please."
  4. A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
    "I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station."
  5. A broad, thin piece of plaster.
  6. A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
  7. A salver, platter, or tray.
  8. 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.
  9. One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
  10. A removable sliding bottom to galley.
  11. A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
  12. A class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
  13. A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

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What type of word is slice?

As detailed above, 'slice' can be a verb or a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Verb usage: Slice the cheese thinly.
  2. Noun usage: a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread
  3. Noun usage: I'll have a slice, please.
  4. Noun usage: I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of slice are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of slice, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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