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slicer

[ slahy-ser ]

noun

  1. a thin-bladed knife or implement used for slicing, especially food:

    a cheese slicer.

  2. a person or thing that slices.


slicer

/ ˈslaɪsə /

noun

  1. a machine that slices bread, etc, usually with an electrically driven band knife or circular knife
  2. electronics a limiter having two boundary values, the portion of the signal between these values being passed on
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of slicer1

First recorded in 1520–30; slice + -er 1
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Example Sentences

Todd has set up the brain slicer, a vibratome, under a lamp so bright after so much darkness that Kierk and Carmen shield their eyes with their free hands.

Pizza slicer:  No matter what level of cook you are, you need a pizza cutter.

Using a mandoline or other vegetable slicer, shave the fennel crosswise into 1/3-inch-thick slices.

Take it up with a slicer, and neatly place it on a piece of toast.

It was a wagon stand in the time of Gillis, and Slicer did not take charge of it until business had ceased on the road.

"Surely," he began again, in more impetuous tones, and then looked round at the labourer who turned the slicer.

Cut the heads of cabbage into quarters and shred on a cabbage slicer, or cutter.

In my books, which happen to be the old books in this case, the accomplice is every bit as guilty as the man with the slicer.

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