The difference between Rasher and Slice
When used as nouns, rasher means a strip of bacon, whereas slice means that which is thin and broad.
Slice is also verb with the meaning: to cut into slices.
check bellow for the other definitions of Rasher and Slice
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Rasher as an adjective:
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Rasher as a noun (UK, Ireland):
A strip of bacon.
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Slice as a noun:
That which is thin and broad.
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Slice as a noun:
A thin, broad piece cut off.
Examples:
"a slice of bacon''; ''a slice of cheese''; ''a slice of bread"
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Slice as a noun:
amount
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Slice as a noun:
A piece of pizza.
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Slice as a noun (British):
A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
Examples:
"I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station."
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Slice as a noun:
A broad, thin piece of plaster.
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Slice as a noun:
A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
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Slice as a noun:
A salver, platter, or tray.
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Slice as a noun:
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.
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Slice as a noun:
One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
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Slice as a noun (printing):
A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
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Slice as a noun (golf):
A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
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Slice as a noun (Australia, NZ, UK):
Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
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Slice as a noun (medicine):
A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
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Slice as a noun (falconry):
A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
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Slice as a verb:
To cut into slices.
Examples:
"Slice the cheese thinly."
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Slice as a verb:
To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
Examples:
"The knife left sliced his arm."
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Slice as a verb (golf):
To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
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Slice as a verb (tennis):
To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
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Slice as a verb (badminton):
To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
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Slice as a verb (soccer):
To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
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Slice as a verb (rowing):
To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
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Slice as a verb (transitive):
To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.