Slice
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To cut into slices. To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
Part of speech: noun
Definition: That which is thin and broad. A thin, broad piece cut off. A piece of pizza. A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling. A broad, thin piece of plaster. A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink. A salver, platter, or tray. 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. One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching. A removable sliding bottom to galley. A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw A class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices. A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
Example sentence: It's so comforting to have a small piece of cake. Just one slice.
Fade
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook, draw.A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top fade and low fade.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
Example sentence: Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.