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slicing and dicing

slicing and dicing is the present participle and gerund of slice and dice.

Meaning of slice and dice

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

Questions about slicing and dicing

What is slicing and dicing the present participle and gerund of?
Slicing and dicing is the present participle and gerund of slice and dice.

Words near slicing and dicing in the dictionary

  1. slicht
  2. slicier
  3. sliciest
  4. slicin'
  5. slicing
  6. slicing and dicing
  7. slicing cucumber
  8. slicing cucumbers
  9. slicing the pie
  10. slicing up
  11. slicingly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slicing and dicing (page history and authors); slice and dice (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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