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Definition of 'Piece' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) piece
a limited portion or quantity of something:
a piece of land.

2.  piece
a quantity of some substance or material forming a single mass or body:
a piece of lumber.

3.  piece
a portion or quantity of a whole:
a piece of pie.

4.  piece
a particular length, as of certain goods prepared for the market:
cloth sold by the piece.

5.  piece
an amount of work forming a single job:
to be paid by the piece.

6.  piece
an example of artistic creativity or workmanship, as a painting or a musical or literary composition.

7.  piece
one of the figures, disks, or the like, used in playing a board game.

8.  piece
(in chess) a superior man, as distinguished from a pawn.

9.  piece
an individual thing of a particular class or set:
a piece of furniture.

10.  piece
an example, specimen, or instance of something:
a fine piece of work.

11.  piece
a part, fragment, or shred:
to tear a letter into pieces.

12.  piece
one's opinion or thoughts on a subject.

13.  piece
a soldier's rifle, pistol, etc.

14.  piece
a cannon or other unit of ordnance:
field piece.

15.  piece
a coin:
a five-cent piece.

16.  piece
Midland and Southern U.S. a distance:
down the road a piece.

17.  piece
Also called piece of ass.

18. (v.t.) piece
to mend by adding a piece or pieces; patch.

19.  piece
to complete or extend by an added piece or something additional (often fol. by out):
to piece out a library with new books.

20.  piece
to make by or as if by joining pieces (often fol. by together):
to piece together a musical program.

21.  piece
to join together, as pieces or parts.

22.  piece
to join as a piece or addition to something:
to piece new wire into the cable.

23.  piece
to assemble into a meaningful whole by combining available facts, information, etc.

24.  piece
to break into fragments.

25.  piece
to lose control of oneself; become emotionally or physically upset.


Definition of 'Piece' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) piece
a separate part of a whole
"an important piece of the evidence"

2. (noun) piece
an item that is an instance of some type
"he designed a new piece of equipment"; "she bought a lovely piece of china";

3. (noun) part, piece
a portion of a natural object
"they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite"

4. (noun) musical composition, opus, composition, piece, piece of music
a musical work that has been created
"the composition is written in four movements"

5. (noun) piece, bit
an instance of some kind
"it was a nice piece of work"; "he had a bit of good luck"

6. (noun) piece
an artistic or literary composition
"he wrote an interesting piece on Iran"; "the children acted out a comic piece to amuse the guests"

7. (noun) firearm, piece, small-arm
a portable gun
"he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster"

8. (noun) piece, slice
a serving that has been cut from a larger portion
"a piece of pie"; "a slice of bread"

9. (noun) piece
a distance
"it is down the road a piece"

10. (noun) objet d'art, art object, piece
a work of art of some artistic value
"this store sells only objets d'art"; "it is not known who created this piece"

11. (noun) while, piece, spell, patch
a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
"he was here for a little while"; "I need to rest for a piece"; "a spell of good weather"; "a patch of bad weather"

12. (noun) slice, piece
a share of something
"a slice of the company's revenue"

13. (verb) man, piece
game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
"he taught me to set up the men on the chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage"

14. (verb) patch, piece
to join or unite the pieces of
"patch the skirt"

15. (verb) assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together
create by putting components or members together
"She pieced a quilt"; "He tacked together some verses"; "They set up a committee"

16. (verb) piece
join during spinning
"piece the broken pieces of thread, slivers, and rovings"

17. (verb) nibble, pick, piece
eat intermittently; take small bites of
"He pieced at the sandwich all morning"; "She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles"

18. (verb) piece, patch
repair by adding pieces
"She pieced the china cup"


Definition of 'Piece' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) piece
a part of sth larger
a piece of cake; a piece of the puzzle; He broke off a piece and gave it to me.; The glass lay in pieces on the floor.; The explosion ripped the cloth to pieces.

2.  piece
in/to pieces
one of a large group of things of the same kind
a piece of paper/clothing/mail/art/equipment etc.

3.  piece
a single example or amount of information or work
an exciting piece of news/information; the first piece of his work we've seen

4.  piece
a single work of art, music, or literature
a piece for violin and piano; one of the artist's most beautiful pieces

5.  piece
an object used to mark your place in a board game
Move your piece two spaces.

6.  piece
give sb a piece of your mind
to angrily criticize
I'd like to give her a piece of my mind!

7.  piece
in one piece
not hurt
It was a scary flight, but we arrived in one piece.

8.  piece
a piece of cake
sth that is easy to do
The exam will be a piece of cake for you.

9. (verb) piece
to bring information together in order to understand everything
Police pieced together evidence.


Definition of 'Piece' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Piece
a fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piece of sugar; to break in pieces

2. (noun) Piece
a definite portion or quantity, as of goods or work; as, a piece of broadcloth; a piece of wall paper

3. (noun) Piece
any one thing conceived of as apart from other things of the same kind; an individual article; a distinct single effort of a series; a definite performance

4. (noun) Piece
a literary or artistic composition; as, a piece of poetry, music, or statuary

5. (noun) Piece
a musket, gun, or cannon; as, a battery of six pieces; a following piece

6. (noun) Piece
a coin; as, a sixpenny piece; -- formerly applied specifically to an English gold coin worth 22 shillings

7. (noun) Piece
a fact; an item; as, a piece of news; a piece of knowledge

8. (noun) Piece
an individual; -- applied to a person as being of a certain nature or quality; often, but not always, used slightingly or in contempt

9. (noun) Piece
one of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn

10. (noun) Piece
a castle; a fortified building

11. (verb) Piece
to make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; as, to piece a garment; -- often with out

12. (verb) Piece
to unite; to join; to combine

13. (verb) Piece
to unite by a coalescence of parts; to fit together; to join


Translation of 'Piece' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a part of anything
a piece of cake; He examined it carefully piece by piece (= each piece separately).

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: stuk Arabic flag Arabic: قِطْعَه Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: парче
Brazilian flag Brazilian: pedaço Czech flag Czech: kus German flag German: das Stück
Danish flag Danish: stykke; del Greek flag Greek: κομμάτι Spanish flag Spanish: trozo, pedazo
Estonian flag Estonian: tükk Farsi flag Farsi: تکه Finnish flag Finnish: pala
French flag French: morceau Hebrew flag Hebrew: חֲתִיכָה Hindi flag Hindi: टुकडा़
Croatian flag Croatian: komadić Hungarian flag Hungarian: darab Indonesian flag Indonesian: sepotong
Icelandic flag Icelandic: bútur, sneið, stykki, hlu Italian flag Italian: pezzo Japanese flag Japanese: 一片
Korean flag Korean: 조각, 파편 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: dalis, gabalas, sklypas Latvian flag Latvian: gabals; daļa
Malay flag Malay: sepotong; bahagian demi b Dutch flag Dutch: stuk Norwegian flag Norwegian: stykke
Polish flag Polish: kawałek, fragment Persian flag Persian: تکه Pashto flag Pashto: ټوټه
Portuguese flag Portuguese: pedaço Romanian flag Romanian: bucată Russian flag Russian: кусок; часть
Slovak flag Slovak: kus Slovenian flag Slovenian: kos Serbian flag Serbian: parče
Swedish flag Swedish: stycke, bit Thai flag Thai: ชิ้นส่วน Turkish flag Turkish: parça
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 部分,塊 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: шматок, кусок Urdu flag Urdu: ٹکڑا
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: mẩu/ miếng Chinese flag Chinese: 部分,块

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