单词 | to piece on |
释义 | > as lemmasto piece on to piece on ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > agree/be in harmony/be congruous [verb (intransitive)] > be compatible > fit in or on to piece on1826 1826 W. Hazlitt Plain Speaker xii. 340 As it is, they do not piece on to our ordinary existence, nor go to enrich our habitual reflections. 1849 H. Miller Foot-prints of Creator 48 The super-occipital bone..pieces on to the superior frontal. 1880 S. Lanier Let. 15 June in A. H. Starke Sidney Lanier (1933) xx. 397 It [sc. science] pieces on, perfectly, to those dreams which one has when one is a boy. 2. transitive. To add (another item of a similar kind). Usually with to. ΚΠ 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xii. 218 It is so hard to fix the date of the event, or to piece it on in any way to the undoubted facts of the history, that [etc.]. 1886 St James's Gaz. 19 June 5/2 From time to time various inartistic additions of the true scholastic kind in simple brickwork were pieced on to the old fabric. 1939 B. Blanshard Nature of Thought II. xxvii. 309 More beliefs are pieced on, while the earlier ones remain as they were. 1983 Daily News Record (U.S.) (Nexis) 17 Jan. 2 The collection faltered when foulard pattern cotton or corduroy was pieced on to wool sweaters. < as lemmas |
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