| 单词 | piece of furniture | 
| 释义 | > as lemmaspiece of furniture  7.  A single item belonging to a group or class of similar objects. Frequently in  piece of furniture,  piece of ordnance,  piece of plate, etc. Cf. a piece n. at  Phrases 3. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > 			[noun]		 > constituent part or component > single element of collective whole piece1473 unit1600 module1946 1473    J. Paston in  Paston Lett. & Papers 		(2004)	 I. 472  				Myn jnstrumentys..I praye yow..to trusse in a pedde and sende them me..and a byll ther-in how many pecys. 1523    Earl of Surrey in  H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. 		(1824)	 1st Ser. I. 216  				Dyvers other good peces of ordynaunce for the feld. c1540						 (?a1400)						    Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 9504  				Syluer and Sarrigold sadly þai grippet..Pesis of plates plentius mekyll. 1563    in  J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. 		(1877)	 1st Ser. I. 237  				Ane brasin pece of artailyerie, ten irn pecis. 1603    M. Pring Voy. N. Virginia in  S. Purchas Purchas his Pilgrimes 		(1906)	 XVIII. 328  				Our Master..caused a piece of great Ordnance to bee shot off, to give terrour to the Indians. 1636    R. Fewster Will in  B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 		(1998)	 341  				Item I giue &c to my wiffe & my two daughters 4 peeces off pewter to each. 1669    S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. 75  				Of the..Motion or Course of a Shot discharged out of any Piece of Ordnance. 1715    London Gaz. No. 5336/2  				A Piece of Plate of the value of 100 Ducats. 1792    Gentleman's Mag. 12/2  				A statue or a piece of plate require inscriptions very different from a monument. 1832    R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War III. 319  				A regiment..succeeded in taking two pieces of cannon. 1886    M. Linskill Haven under Hill I. xv. 201  				It was a handsome piece of furniture. 1940    W. E. Crook Electr. in Aircraft vii. 93  				The impulse starter..is a purely mechanical piece of apparatus. 1991    J. Phillips You'll never eat Lunch in this Town Again 		(1992)	 115  				He has always been very proud of this piece of equipment. < as lemmas | 
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