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Slice Sliced Substance Moves Quickly Knife Thin Ship

query
If something s_____ through a substance, it moves through it quickly, like a knife.If something slices through a substance, it moves through it quickly, like a knife.
The ship sliced through the water.
word slice
full-definition
noun
A slice 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 slices of bread a day.
...water flavoured with a slice of lemon.
You can use slice to refer to a part of a situation or activity .
Fiction takes up a large slice of the publishing market.
...a car that represents a slice of motoring history.
verb
If you slice bread, meat, fruit, or other food, you cut it into thin pieces.
Helen sliced the cake.
Slice the steak into long thin slices.
I sliced up an onion.
He began slicing the pie up.
In tennis, golf, and other sports, if you slice a ball, you hit its edge rather than its centre, so that it travels at an angle .
The captain swung his left foot, but sliced the ball wide.
...a ball that would reduce hooks and slices.
If something slices through a substance, it moves through it quickly, like a knife.
The ship sliced through the water.
inflections slicesslicingsliced
cefr-level B1

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:b1

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