Slice vs. Flake — What's the Difference?

A thin, broad piece of food, such as bread, meat, or cake, cut from a larger portion

A flat thin piece or layer; a chip.

A utensil with a broad, flat blade for lifting foods such as cake and fish.

(Archaeology) A stone fragment removed from a core or from another flake by percussion or pressure, serving as a preform or as a tool or blade itself.

A stroke that makes the ball curve away to the right (for a left-handed player, the left), typically inadvertently.

A small piece; a bit.

Cut (something, especially food) into slices

A small crystalline bit of snow.

Strike (the ball) or play (a stroke) so that the ball curves away to the right (for a left-handed player, the left)

One who is undependable, as in keeping social engagements.

A thin broad piece cut from a larger object

A somewhat eccentric person; an oddball.

An often wedge-shaped piece cut from a larger, usually circular object

(Slang) Cocaine.

A portion or share

A frame or platform for drying fish or produce.

A knife with a broad, thin, flexible blade, used for cutting and serving food.

A platform lowered over the side of a ship as a scaffold for performing maintenance or repairs.

A similar implement for spreading printing ink.

To remove a flake or flakes from; chip.

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.

To cover, mark, or overlay with or as if with flakes.

A stroke that causes a ball to follow such a course

To lay out (a rope or sail, for example) in loose folds.

A ball propelled on such a course.

To come off in flat thin pieces or layers.

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.

To renege, as on a social engagement

To cut or divide into slices

To fall asleep or collapse from fatigue or exhaustion

To cut from a larger piece

A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything

To cut through or move through with an action like cutting

A scale of a fish or similar animal

To divide into portions or shares; parcel out

(archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.

To reduce or remove from a larger amount or entity

(informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.

(Sports)To hit (a ball) with a slice.

A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.

To make a cut with a cutting implement

A flat turn or tier of rope.

To move like a knife

A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.

(Sports)To hit a ball with a slice.

A wire rack for drying fish.

That which is thin and broad.

(UK) Dogfish.

A thin, broad piece cut off.

(Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.

(colloquial) An amount of anything.

A paling; a hurdle.

A piece of pizza.

A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.

(British) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.

(nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.

A broad, thin piece of plaster.

(nautical) gloss=turn or coil of cable or hawser

A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.

To break or chip off in a flake.

A salver, platter, or tray.

(colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.

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.

(technical) To store an item such as rope or sail in layers

One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.

To hit (another person).

(printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.

To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.

(golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw

To lay out on a flake for drying.

Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.

A paling; a hurdle.

(medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.

A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.

(falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)

A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.

(programming) A contiguous portion of an array.

A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish.

(transitive) To cut into slices.

A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.

(transitive) To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.

A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.

(transitive) To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.

A person who behaves strangely; a flaky{2} person.

To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.

A flat layer, or fake, of a coiled cable.

To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).

To form into flakes.

To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.

To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.

To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.

A crystal of snow

To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.

A person with an unusual or odd personality

(mathematics) Having the properties of a slice knot.

A small fragment of something broken off from the whole;

A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.

Form into flakes;

That which is thin and broad, like a slice.

Cover with flakes or as if with flakes

To cut into thin pieces, or to cut off a thin, broad piece from.

Come off in flakes or thin small pieces;

To cut into parts; to divide.

To clear by means of a slice bar, as a fire or the grate bars of a furnace.

To hit (the ball) so that the face of the club draws across the face of the ball and deflects it.

A share of something;

A serving that has been cut from a larger portion;

A wound made by cutting;

A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer;

A thin flat piece cut off of some object

A spatula for spreading paint or ink

Make a clean cut through;

Hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction

Cut into slices;

Hit a ball so that it causes a backspin