Pasty vs. Slice: What's the Difference?
Pasty and Slice Definitions
Pasty
Resembling paste in consistency.
Slice
A thin broad piece cut from a larger object
Ate a slice of cheese.
Examined a slice of the diseased lung.
Pasty
Having a pale lifeless appearance; pallid
An unhealthy, pasty complexion.
Slice
An often wedge-shaped piece cut from a larger, usually circular object
Ordered a slice of pie.
Shared a slice of pizza.
Pasty
A pie or turnover, especially one with a savory filling including seasoned meat, fish, or vegetables.
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Slice
A portion or share
A slice of the profits.
Pasty
Like paste, sticky.
These mashed potatoes aren’t cooked well; they are very pasty.
Slice
A knife with a broad, thin, flexible blade, used for cutting and serving food.
Pasty
Pale, lacking colour, having a pallor
He is pasty-faced.
Are you feeling OK? You look a bit pasty.
Slice
A similar implement for spreading printing ink.
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Pasty
White-skinned
Slice
The course of a ball that curves in the direction of the dominant hand of the player propelling it, as to the right of a right-handed player.
Pasty
A small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a woman's breast, primarily worn by female exotic dancers.
Slice
A stroke that causes a ball to follow such a course
A golfer with a bad slice.
Pasty
A type of seasoned meat and vegetable hand pie, usually of a semicircular shape.
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Slice
A ball propelled on such a course.
Pasty
Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness.
Slice
A stroke, as in tennis, in which the ball is struck with a downward motion with the open face of the racket in order to impart backspin.
Pasty
A pie consisting usually of meat wholly surrounded with a crust made of a sheet of paste, and often baked without a dish; a meat pie.
A large pasty baked in a pewter platter.
Slice
To cut or divide into slices
Slice a loaf of bread.
Pasty
Small meat pie or turnover
Slice
To cut from a larger piece
Slice off a piece of salami.
Pasty
Resembling paste in color; pallid;
The looked pasty and red-eyed
A complexion that had been pastelike was now chalky white
Slice
To cut through or move through with an action like cutting
"where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire" (Robert Frost).
Pasty
Having the properties of glue
Slice
To divide into portions or shares; parcel out
"With mortgage securitisation, a pool of home loans is sliced into tranches bearing different degrees of risk" (David Shirreff).
Slice
To reduce or remove from a larger amount or entity
Sliced 10 percent off the asking price.
Slice
(Sports)To hit (a ball) with a slice.
Slice
To make a cut with a cutting implement
I sliced into the cake.
Slice
To move like a knife
The destroyer sliced through the water.
Slice
(Sports)To hit a ball with a slice.
Slice
That which is thin and broad.
Slice
A thin, broad piece cut off.
A slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread
Jim was munching on a slice of toast.
Slice
(colloquial) An amount of anything.
Slice
A piece of pizza.
Slice
(British) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.
Slice
A broad, thin piece of plaster.
Slice
A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
Slice
A salver, platter, or tray.
Slice
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.
Slice
One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
Slice
(printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
Slice
(golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
Slice
Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
Slice
(medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
Slice
(falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
Slice
(programming) A contiguous portion of an array.
Slice
(transitive) To cut into slices.
Slice the cheese thinly.
Slice
(transitive) To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
The knife left sliced his arm.
Slice
(transitive) To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
Slice
To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
Slice
To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
Slice
To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
Slice
To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
Slice
To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
Slice
(mathematics) Having the properties of a slice knot.
Slice
A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.
Slice
That which is thin and broad, like a slice.
Slice
To cut into thin pieces, or to cut off a thin, broad piece from.
Slice
To cut into parts; to divide.
Slice
To clear by means of a slice bar, as a fire or the grate bars of a furnace.
Slice
To hit (the ball) so that the face of the club draws across the face of the ball and deflects it.
Slice
A share of something;
A slice of the company's revenue
Slice
A serving that has been cut from a larger portion;
A piece of pie
A slice of bread
Slice
A wound made by cutting;
He put a bandage over the cut
Slice
A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer;
He took lessons to cure his slicing
Slice
A thin flat piece cut off of some object
Slice
A spatula for spreading paint or ink
Slice
Make a clean cut through;
Slit her throat
Slice
Hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction
Slice
Cut into slices;
Slice the salami, please
Slice
Hit a ball so that it causes a backspin
