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Definition: Sliced |
SlicedAdjective1. Prepared by cutting; "sliced tomatoes"; "sliced ham"; "chopped clams"; "chopped meat"; "shredded cabbage". 2. Used of meat; cut into pieces for serving. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sliced" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
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Food & Agriculture | Of timber, e. g. a log, bolt or flitch, cut into discontinuous sheets of uniform thickness by moving it against a knife. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: SlicedSynonyms: chopped (adj), shredded (adj). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | That man sitting over there in the white suit is the biggest thing to come out of this country sinced sliced Beatles (Velvet Goldmine; writing credit: James Lyons; Todd Haynes) Ah yes, sliced bread (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) She thinks she's the greatest actress since since sliced bread (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) | |
Lyrics | Ain't none of this worth getting your face sliced (U.N.I.T.Y.; performing artist: Queen Latifah) The greatest thing since bread came sliced (Imitation of Life; performing artist: R.E.M.) | |
Clever | Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage. (references; author: unknown) What was the best thing before sliced bread? (references; author: unknown) I attempted to be a deli worker; but any way I sliced it, I couldn't cut the mustard. (references; author: unknown) | |
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Sections of tissue embedded in paraffin wax are sliced and floated on a hot-water bath in preparation for histological study. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | (11) color slides show different types of bread. (4) two pieces of toasted white bread with a pat of melted butter, (1) two pieces of toasted white bread, (2) single slice of bread spread completely with butter, (1) french bread loaf with two pieces sliced off the end, (1) loaf of garlic bread, (2) single slice of garlic bread. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | ||
(1) color slide shows a fried plantain (similar to a banana) sliced into small pieces. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). | (2) color slides show different bowls of salad. (1) bowl of mixed salad, (1) bowl of sliced tomatoes over a bed of lettuce. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). | ||
A sliced loaf of brown bread, a basket of rolls and 4 types of grains sit on a wooden table. There is a bread knife in the foreground. See also AV-3905. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | A wooden table containing: a ladle full of beans, a sliced loaf of brown bread, a bunch of bananas, muffins, small potatoes, a head of cabbage, an ear of corn, a pile of cereal, yams, apples, a nectarine and some spaghetti. See also AV-3905 and AV-3906. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | ||
![]() | Commander Carrier Division 15, Captain Raymond N. Sharp, shows the Prime Minister of Ceylon, Solomon W.R. Bandaranaike, emergency supplies that are to be delivered to flood victims in his nation, 11 January 1958. Photographed on the carrier's hangar deck, with HSS-1 helicopters undergoing maintenance in the background. Relief supplies include cans of sliced & cored pineapple, produced in Australia and donated by the United States. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Margaret Rudkin, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, holding loaf of sliced bread. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Lumber manufacture. Boise Payette Lumber Company, Boise, Idaho. On this hear rig (leg carriage) the logs are sliced down to Ponderosa pine boards, many of which are being used for defense construction. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Bread" by Michel Marcon Commentary: "Sliced bread." |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | IITYWYBAD? Down at one end the cooking plates, pots of stew, potatoes, pot roast, roast beef, gray roast pork waiting to be sliced. |
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Economic History | Greece | Glazed ceramic flags and paving, hearth or wall tiles, swan or chipped, sliced or peeled wood, painters fillings and faucets, indoor wall and floor materials and all types of door and window fittings and plumbing and bathroom hardware are among the most promising products to be imported to Greece. (references) |
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| "Sliced" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 48.70% of the time. "Sliced" is used about 462 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 48.7% | 225 | 20,080 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 33.55% | 155 | 25,240 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 16.67% | 77 | 37,929 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.08% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 462 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "sliced": sliced cold meat. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sliced": sliced-off, sliced-through, sliced-white. | |
Ending with "sliced": thinly-sliced. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sliced veneer | 24 |
nut sliced | 10 |
bread sliced | 8 |
sliced pineapple | 5 |
spiral sliced ham | 5 |
lunchmeats sliced | 4 |
meat sliced | 4 |
sliced | 4 |
sliced tomato | 4 |
pickle sliced | 4 |
ham recipe sliced | 3 |
best bread since sliced thing | 3 |
penis sliced | 3 |
sliced cucumber | 2 |
banana sliced | 2 |
dill pickle recipe sliced | 2 |
almond sliced | 2 |
atkins bread sliced | 2 |
calorie sliced turkey | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sliced"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 切 (incise, incised, Incising, slicing). (various references) | |
Czech | nakrájený. (various references) | |
Danish | knivskåret. (various references) | |
Dutch | hellende lagen (inclined courses, sliced blockwork, sliced layers, sloping blockwork, sloping layers), hellende bloklagen (inclined courses, sliced blockwork, sliced layers, sloping blockwork, sloping layers), gesneden champignons (sliced mushrooms), champignons in plakjes (sliced mushrooms). (various references) | |
Finnish | viipaloidut sienet (sliced mushrooms). (various references) | |
French | tranché. (various references) | |
German | schnitt (average, crop, cut, cutting, edge, editing, incision, intersection, line, modeling, Nick, notch, pattern, scissored, section, serration, shape, slash, snip), scheibchenweise. (various references) | |
Greek | κομμένο σε φέτες. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מפולח (cleft, segmented). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tersayat (be sliced into, deeply wounded, slashed), terdaging (sliced into the flesh). (various references) | |
Italian | tranciato, taglio (blade, clip, clipping, cut, cutoff, cutting, denomination, edge, gash, hack, kerf, length, section, slash, slot, style, styling), affettato (affected, assumed, Dandy, euphuistic, finical, foppish, genteel, labored, laboured, mincing, niminy-piminy, pretty-pretty, prim, prissy). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 厚焼き (thickly sliced food), 刺身 (sliced raw fish), 味醂干し , 光り物 (any bright metal, luminous body like a shooting star, sliced fish with the silver skin left on), 光物 (any bright metal, luminous body like a shooting star, sliced fish with the silver skin left on), 作り (make-up, sliced raw fish), 作り身 (sliced raw fish), 刺し身 (sliced raw fish), がらがら蛇 (deserted, emptiness, empty, garbage, hollowness, jumble, odds and ends, pickled ginger, rattlesnake, sliced shouga prepared in vinegar served with sushi, to be deserted, to be empty, void), 身欠き鰊 , 牛刺 (sliced raw beef), 雁擬き (deep-fried tofu mixed with thinly sliced vegetables), 鰹節 (small pieces of sliced dried bonito), 鉄火丼 (vinegared rice topped with sliced raw tuna), 鉄火巻 (vinegared rice and sliced raw tuna wrapped in seaweed), 鳴門 , 千枚漬け (pickled sliced radishes). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎゅうさし (sliced raw beef), がり (pickled ginger, sliced shouga prepared in vinegar served with sushi), がんもどき (deep-fried tofu mixed with thinly sliced vegetables), なると (maelstrom), ひかりもの (any bright metal, luminous body like a shooting star, sliced fish with the silver skin left on), さしみ (a quick thrust of the hand, sliced raw fish), つくりみ (sliced raw fish), つくり (make up, make-up, physique, sliced raw fish, structure, the right half of a character when the left half is its radical), せんまいずけ (pickled sliced radishes), かつおぶし (small pieces of sliced dried bonito), あつやき (thickly sliced food), みかきにしん, みりんぼし, てっかまき (vinegared rice and sliced raw tuna wrapped in seaweed), てっかどんぶり (vinegared rice topped with sliced raw tuna). (various references) | |
Korean | 저미는. (various references) | |
Manx | slissit. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | icedslay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | folheado (foliate, veneer), folha de corte plano. (various references) | |
Russian | вырезать нарезанный. (various references) | |
Spanish | inciso (cut, design, gash, incise, section, slash, style), corte rebanado. (various references) | |
Swedish | delad (divergent, divided, forked, shared). (various references) | |
Turkish | dilimli (cuspidate, segmented). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "sliced": presliced, unsliced. (additional references) | |
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"Sliced" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: liced, salice, Sicad, sicced, siced, silicet, silked, slicen, slicit, slife, sliked, slited. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sliced" (pronounced slī"st) |
| 4 | -l ī" s t | spliced. |
| 3 | -ī" s t | iced, diced, enticed, feist, heist, mispriced, priced, repriced, spiced, sufficed, tryst. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-l-s" | |
-1 letter: cedis, ceils, deils, delis, dices, idles, isled, sidle, slice, slide. | |
-2 letters: cedi, ceil, cels, deil, deli, dels, dice, diel, dies, disc, elds, iced, ices, ides, idle, isle, leis, lice, lids, lied, lies, sice, side, sild, sled, slid. | |
-3 letters: cel, cis, del, die, dis, eds, eld, els, ice, ids, led, lei, lid, lie, lis. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-l-s" | |
+1 letter: chields, childes, clerids, deciles, delicts, sickled, slicked, sluiced, spliced. | |
+2 letters: alcaides, cedillas, cheloids, chiseled, citadels, clupeids, collides, decibels, decimals, declaims, declines, decrials, dialects, disciple, disclike, disclose, displace, dyslexic, ecdysial, eclipsed, inclosed, includes, laicised, licensed, medicals, nuclides, pedicels, pedicles, radicels, radicles, sclereid, scleroid, sicklied, silenced, silicide, stickled, unsliced. | |
+3 letters: algicides, asclepiad, backslide, canalised, canfields, chelipeds, childbeds, childless, chiselled, chlorides, civilised, cloddiest, cloudiest, clupeoids, colliders, colonised, coverlids, creolised, cuddliest, cylinders, decliners, deistical, delicates, delicious, denticles, derelicts, diacetyls, diclinies, dicyclies, discalced, discipled, disciples, disclosed, discloser, discloses, dislocate, displaced, displaces, domiciles, dulcifies, dulcimers, dulcineas, dyslexics, fascicled, filicides, focalised, glucoside, glycoside, helicoids, idiolects, inclasped, insculped, lacertids, localised, lodicules, logicised, lucidness, lyricised, maledicts, melodicas, miscalled, misplaced, nucleoids, presliced, pulicides, respliced, ridicules, rockslide, sclereids, scribbled, secluding, silicides, slipcased, solecised, solecized, solicited, stenciled, stepchild, strickled, vocalised. | |
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