Sliced

  

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Sliced

Definition: Sliced

Sliced

Adjective

1. 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)

 

Specialty Definition: Sliced

DomainDefinition

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Sliced

Synonyms: chopped (adj), shredded (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sliced

English words defined with "sliced": apple fritter, apple pie, apple tartbacon, bread and butter pickle, bread board, breadboardcaramel bun, chicken sandwich, cinnamon bun, cinnamon roll, cinnamon snail, cold cutsdrive, drivingEnglish runner beanFricace, fruit cocktailgarlic bread, gyroham sandwich, honey bunJerusalem artichokelunch meat, luncheon meatosso bucoprosciutorefrigerator cookie, runner beansashimi, scarlet runner, scarlet runner bean, schnecken, slice into, slice through, split, squill, sticky bun, sunchoke. (references)
Specialty definitions using "sliced": cooker, chipDELI CUTTER-SLICER, DIFFUSER OPERATOR, diffusing apparatus, display carverexhibition carvergyokuinter-fold roll cutterLABORER, PIE BAKERYmeat carverpotato-chip cooker machine, POTATO-CHIP FRIERROLL-SLICING-MACHINE TENDERSANDWICH MAKER, sandwich-counter attendant, SCRATCH PLATTER, SHEETER OPERATOR, slice-cutting-machine operator, SLICE-PLUG-CUTTER OPERATOR, SLICING-MACHINE OPERATOR, SLICING-MACHINE TENDER, slitter operator, STEAK SAUCE MAKER, SUPERVISOR, CURED-MEAT PACKING, SUPERVISOR, FOAM CUTTINGTAYLOR'S RAGOUT, tobacco cutterWonder Bread. (references)

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Modern Usage: Sliced

DomainUsage

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Sliced

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2002 World Forecasts of Sliced and Peeled Wood Sawn Lengthwise excluding Prepared Wood Export Supplies (reference)

  • The 2003 World Forecasts of Sliced and Peeled Wood Sawn Lengthwise excluding Prepared Wood Export Supplies (reference)

  • The 2000-2005 Outlook for Wholemeal, Sliced Bread in Africa (reference)

  • The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Sliced Cooked Meat Appetisers and Dips (reference)

  • The World Market for Sliced and Peeled Wood Sawn Lengthwise excluding Prepared Wood: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • 2000 Import and Export Market for Sliced and Peeled Wood Sawn Lengthwise Excluding Prepared Wood in (reference)

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Sliced and Peeled Wood Sawn Lengthwise Excluding Prepared Wood in Africa [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  • The Intact and Sliced Brain (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Sliced

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Photo Album: Sliced

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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.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Sliced
 

"Bread" by Michel Marcon
Commentary: "Sliced bread."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Use in Literature: Sliced

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Sliced

SubjectTopicQuote

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Sliced

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)48.7%22520,080
Adjective (general or positive)33.55%15525,240
Lexical Verb (past participle)16.67%7737,929
Noun (proper)1.08%5157,705
                    Total100.00%462N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Sliced

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sliced

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: Sliced

Language Translations for "sliced"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

(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.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Sliced

Derivations

Words ending with "sliced": presliced, unsliced. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Sliced"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "sliced" (pronounced slī"st)
4-l ī" s tspliced.
3-ī" s ticed, diced, enticed, feist, heist, mispriced, priced, repriced, spiced, sufficed, tryst.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Sliced

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Usage Frequency
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Derivations
16. Rhymes
17. Anagrams
18. Bibliography


  

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