Slice vs Mince - What's the difference?
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That which is thin and broad.
A thin, broad piece cut off.
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A piece of pizza.
* 2010 , Andrea Renzoni, ?Eric Renzoni, Fuhgeddaboudit! (page 22)
(British) 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.
(printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
(golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
(Australia, NZ) A class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
(medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
(falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
To cut into slices.
To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
(golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
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To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
(uncountable) Finely chopped meat.
(uncountable) Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat.
(countable) An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait.
* Truman Capote, Children on their Birthdays : (rfdate)
* John Fowles: (rfdate):
* 2010 , Tom Zoellner, Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World :
(countable) An affected manner, especially of speaking; an affectation.
* George Bernard Shaw: (rfdate)
* 1928 , R. M. Pope, in The Education Outlook , volume 80, page 285:
* 2008 , Opie Read, The Colossus , page 95:
To make less; make small.
To lessen; diminish; to diminish in speaking; speak of lightly or slightingly; minimise.
(rare) To effect mincingly.
(cooking) To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine.
To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of.
* Dryden
To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.
* 1869 , Alexander J. Ellis, On Early English Pronunciation, with special reference to Shakespeare and Chaucer , part 1, page 194:
* 1905 , George Henderson, The Gaelic Dialects, IV'', in the ''Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie , published by Kuno Meyer and L. Chr. Stern, volume 5, page 98:
* 1915 , Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark :
To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
* The daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, mincing as they go. -- III. 16.
* I'll turn two mincing steps into a manly stride. —
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To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
(archaic) To diminish the force of.
Slice is a related term of mince.
In lang=en terms the difference between slice and mince
is that slice is to clear (eg a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar while mince is to act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.As nouns the difference between slice and mince
is that slice is that which is thin and broad while mince is (uncountable) finely chopped meat.As verbs the difference between slice and mince
is that slice is to cut into slices while mince is to make less; make small.slice
English
Noun
(en noun)- a slice''' of bacon''; ''a '''slice''' of cheese''; ''a '''slice of bread
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- For breakfast, lunch, or dinner, the best Guido meal is a slice and a Coke.
- I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.
Derived terms
* hypersliceVerb
(slic)- Slice the cheese thinly.
- The knife left sliced his arm.
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Derived terms
* sliceableExternal links
* (commonslite)Anagrams
* * ----mince
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
- Mince tastes really good fried in a pan with some chopped onion and tomato.
- During Christmas time my dad loves to eat mince pies.
- A wiry little girl in a starched, lemon-colored party dress, she sassed along with a grownup mince , one hand on her hip, the other supporting a spinsterish umbrella.
- She was just the same; she had a light way of walking and she always wore flat heels so she didn't have that mince like most girls. She didn't think at all about the men when she moved. Like a bird.
- His skin was china pale, he walked with a slight mince , and his silver mustache was always trimmed sharp; it was his custom to send a bouquet of pink carnations to the wives of men with whom he dined.
- A very moderate degree of accomplishment in this direction would make an end of stage smart speech, which, like the got-up Oxford mince and drawl of a foolish curate, is the mark of a snob.
- And, further, who has not heard what someone has christened the "Oxford" mince , where every consonant is mispronounced and every vowel gets a wrong value?
- [...] a smiling man, portly and impressive, coming toward them with a dignified mince in his walk.
Quotations
* 1849 , Herman Melville, Mardi, and a Voyage Thither : *: Not, — let me hurry to say, — that I put hand in tar bucket with a squeamish air, or ascended the rigging with a Chesterfieldian mince .Verb
(minc)- Butchers often use machines to mince meat.
- I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say — "I love you." —
- To mince one's words
- a minced oath
- Siren, now mince the sin, / And mollify damnation with a phrase.
- In some districts of England ll'' is sounded like ''w'', thus ''bowd'' (booud) for BOLD, ''bw'' (buu) for BULL, ''caw (kau) for CALL. But this pronunciation is merely a provincialism, and not to be imitated unless you wish to mince like these blunderers.
- One may hear some speakers in Oxford mince brother'' into ''brover'' (brëvë); ''Bath'' into ''Baf''; ''both'' into ''bof .
- "The preacher said it was sympathetic," she minced the word, remembering Mr. Larsen's manner.
- At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones's trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar.
- I love going to gay bars and seeing drag queens mince around on stage.