(~s, slicing, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ of bread, meat, fruit, or other food is a thin piece that has been cut from a larger piece.
Try to eat at least four ~s of bread a day.
...water flavored with a ~ of lemon.
N-COUNT: usu with supp, oft N of n
2.
If you ~ bread, meat, fruit, or other food, you cut it into thin pieces.
Helen ~d the cake...
Slice the steak into long thin ~s.
VERB: V n, V n into n
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Slice up means the same as ~ .
I ~d up an onion...
He began slicing the pie up.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P
3.
You can use ~ to refer to a part of a situation or activity.
Fiction takes up a large ~ of the publishing market.
N-COUNT: usu N of n
4.
see also ~d , fish ~
5.
~ of the action: see action