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slice and dice

slice and dice verb: to cut and chop to pieces.

Verb

slice and dice (third-person singular simple present slices and dices, present participle slicing and dicing, simple past and past participle sliced and diced)

  1. (transitive) To cut and chop to pieces.
    • To slice and dice: Place the onion on a chopping board, and slice it in half lengthwise.2009, Ellen Brown, $3 Meals in Minutes […] , Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 23
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To rearrange or analyze in a number of different ways, often arbitrarily.
    • To demonstrate how to create an OLAP report, here's a chance to slice and dice some data from a cube based on the Xtreme database and see what it can tell you.2011, Allen G. Taylor, Crystal Reports 2008 For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 222

Forms of slice and dice

third-person singular presentslices and dices
present participleslicing and dicing
past participlesliced and diced
pastsliced and diced

Questions about slice and dice

What does slice and dice mean?
Slice and dice means to cut and chop to pieces.
What part of speech is slice and dice?
Slice and dice is a verb.
What is the past tense of slice and dice?
The past tense of slice and dice is sliced and diced.

Words near slice and dice in the dictionary

  1. SLH
  2. SLHs
  3. SLI
  4. Sliabh Luachra
  5. slice
  6. slice and dice
  7. slice bar
  8. slice bars
  9. slice categories
  10. slice category
  11. slice knot

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