Commentary: Includes: SLICE THROUGH, SLICE INTO, SLICE UP
NOTE: Includes metaphorical examples.
Examples:
Europe has sliced the African pie in relatively short time.
He sliced the heart, the lungs and liver through and flung him dead.
A third person had sliced the cantaloupe.
His wife sliced up all his shirts and used them to wash her car.
The snakes disentangled and sliced through the whispering grass.
Helicopters sliced through the air.
She got 3 large potatoes and sliced them into cubes.
Mappings:
VerbNet: carve-21.2-1,cut-21.1-1,disassemble-23.3,swat-18.2
FrameNet: Cause_harm,Cutting
PropBank: slice.01,slice.02
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 3
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
slice_through 1
slice_into 1
slice_up 1
Examples:
She sliced the ball into a field of cows.
Magnus sliced the golf ball 100 feet.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2, 4