What's the difference between chunk and slice?

Chunk


Definition:

  • (n.) A short, thick piece of anything.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A good chunk of the Trump base consists of people who consider themselves to be losers from four decades of political and economic orthodoxy.
  • (2) Half a million homes were sold in Scotland, we lost a huge, huge chunk of stock, and as house prices began to escalate so any asset to the community has gone.
  • (3) A bit like the old Lib Dems, perhaps: and indeed the Greens owe a big chunk of their surge to the exodus of voters from Clegg’s discredited rump.
  • (4) The militants have also seized a huge chunk of territory straddling the Iraq-Syria border, and have declared a self-styled caliphate in the territory they control.
  • (5) After it went public, Google bought key chunks of its business, including YouTube and ad firm DoubleClick.
  • (6) Saakashvili, a studio guest on CNN, said that it would be wrong to underestimate Ukraine’s military strength, adding that its officer corps was of a high calibre and that a “considerable chunk” of Russian officers were ethnically Ukrainian.
  • (7) But there was scepticism over whether the more radical elements on either side would obey the ceasefire, and concern in Kiev and western capitals that the truce would effectively "freeze" the conflict and give Moscow de facto control over the disputed chunk of eastern Ukraine that has been ruined by war this summer.
  • (8) "That's 30 years in all, a large chunk of any scientist's professional life," says McKay.
  • (9) The Abu Dhabi royal family is tomorrow expected to lodge the highest bid for a chunk of prime Knightsbridge property.
  • (10) This article discusses two forms of case presentations--"traditional" and "chunked."
  • (11) 3.15am BST Heat 49-54 Spurs, :29 remaining, second quarter Oh hey, we actually have a solid chunk of time where there's no scoring.
  • (12) Google Now can work only if the company behind it manages to bring vast chunks of our existence – from communication to travel to reading – under its corporate umbrella.
  • (13) The whole point is that if wages rise, spending on tax credits – and other in-work benefits, like a significant chunk of housing benefit expenditure – will automatically fall.
  • (14) TalkSport showed there was life in AM yet after it took a chunk of the BBC's live Premier League rights and soared to a record audience.
  • (15) He declined to say how much he paid for the 1,500-pound(680-kilogram) chunk of art, saying only: “Less than I will sell it for.” Bandaged Heart, an image of a heart-shaped balloon covered in Band-Aids, has a pre-sale estimate of $400,000 to $600,000.
  • (16) However, 6Music's average weekday audience, divided into half-hour chunks by official ratings body Rajar, peaks at 40,000 in the second half-hour of Lamb's morning show between 10.30am and 11am.
  • (17) Male nude mice were inoculated with either SKI or PGER by passage of tumor chunks (3 mm2) to the scapular region.
  • (18) The early evening chunk of Comic Relief 2009 - Funny for Money pulled in a 43% share of the overall audience over the three hours, peaking at 12.7 million in the quarter hour from 9pm, according to the unofficial overnights.
  • (19) In Ntinda, angry youths shouted and hurled stones and chunks of concrete at passing cars.
  • (20) The War Against Terror is another moment in this continuing saga of our species toward an unpredictable somewhere between All against All and One World,” writes Scott Atran, attempting to place terrorism in the context of the evolution of human identities: While economic globalisation has steamrolled or left aside large chunks of humankind, political globalisation actively engages people of all societies and walks of life – even the global economy’s driftwood: refugees, migrants, marginals, and those most frustrated in their aspirations.

Slice


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.
  • (v. t.) That which is thin and broad, like a slice.
  • (v. t.) A broad, thin piece of plaster.
  • (v. t.) A salver, platter, or tray.
  • (v. t.) A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
  • (v. t.) A removable sliding bottom to galley.
  • (v. t.) To cut into thin pieces, or to cut off a thin, broad piece from.
  • (v. t.) To cut into parts; to divide.
  • (v. t.) To clear by means of a slice bar, as a fire or the grate bars of a furnace.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Microionophoretically applied excitatory amino acids induced firing of extracellularly recorded single units in a tissue slice preparation of the mouse cochlear nucleus, and the similarly applied antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (2APV) was demonstrated to be a selective N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist.
  • (2) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
  • (3) This difference was abolished by exposure of the slices to propranolol, a beta-adrenergic receptor antagonist.
  • (4) All three compounds were also very similar in their effects on [3H]5HT release from superfused rat striatal slices.
  • (5) Intoxicating concentrations of ethanol also inhibit excitatory synaptic transmission mediated by N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in hippocampal slices from adult rodents.
  • (6) The present in vitro studies show that it is found as beta-endorphin in bovine pituitary slices incubated with radioactive amino acid precursor [35S]methionine.
  • (7) This provides a direct display, in the viewing plane, of the slice profile.
  • (8) In the longitudinal direction, however, spatial resolution of under slice thickness could not be obtained.
  • (9) Tubules and cells were released from slices of kidney cortex by collagenase.
  • (10) To determine the severity of regurgitation by dynamic MRI, several parameters were analyzed, including the number of slices with visible signal loss, the time course of the signal loss, and its maximal area and maximal volume.
  • (11) This study evaluated the in vitro renin release, tissue cyclic AMP content (TcAMPc), and tissue renin content (TRC) changes with time, in response to administration of dopamine (DOP) and of the dopamine-receptor blocking agent pimozide (PIM) to renal cortical slices from sodium deficient (SD) rats.
  • (12) The Press Association tots up a total of £26bn in asset sales last year – including the state’s Eurostar stake, 30% of the Royal Mail and a slice of Lloyds.
  • (13) The effect of p-nitrophenylphosphate (p-NPP) on the release of acetylcholine evoked by drugs and ionic environments known to inhibit Na+, K+-ATPase was studied in isolated cortical slices of rat brain and longitudinal muscle strip of guinea-pig ileum.
  • (14) Prostate slices were perfused with a medium containing [(3)H]testosterone and [(14)C]androstenedione, or 5alpha-dihydro-[(3)H]testosterone and [(14)C]testosterone.
  • (15) The adenylate cyclase activator forskolin as well as 8-bromo-cyclic AMP enhanced the electrically evoked release of 3H-noradrenaline and 3H-5-hydroxytryptamine from superfused rat neocortical slices and that of 3H-dopamine from neostriatal slices with comparable EC50's of about 0.5 and 50 microM, respectively, without affecting spontaneous tritium efflux.
  • (16) Aspartate levels and release from rat striatal slices following the inhibition of glutamine synthetase (GS) by methionine sulfoximine (MSO) were studied.
  • (17) The effects of stimulus-evoked potassium release on the excitability of presynaptic axons were studied in the rat hippocampal slice preparation.
  • (18) The A1-selective agonist R-(-)N6-(2-phenylisopropyl)adenosine (10 microM) decreased 100 microM NMDA-evoked [3H]norepinephrine release by 27%; this was reversed by the P1 antagonist 8-phenyltheophylline (8-PT, 10 microM), indicating that NMDA-evoked norepinephrine release from cortical slices is susceptible to purinergic modulation.
  • (19) In vitro addition of denbufylline (10(-8)-10(-4) M) produced no significant change in [3H]choline uptake in striatal slices, while denbufylline (10(-4) M) increased high (20 mM) potassium-evoked endogenous ACh release from striatal slices.
  • (20) Under the electron microscope, slices appeared vacuolated near the cut surfaces, but well preserved internally (greater than 40 micron from the edge).