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piece

1 of 2

noun

ˈpēs How to pronounce piece (audio)
1
: a part of a whole: such as
a
: fragment
pieces of broken glass
b
: any of the individual members comprising a unit
often used in combination
a five-piece banda three-piece suit
c
: portion, allocation
a piece of the jackpot
2
: an object or individual regarded as a unit of a kind or class
a piece of fruit
3
: a usually unspecified distance
down the road a piece
4
: a standard quantity (as of length, weight, or size) in which something is made or sold
5
: a literary, journalistic, artistic, dramatic, or musical composition
6
: firearm
7
: coin
also : token
8
: a movable object used in playing a board game
specifically : a chessman other than a pawn
9
: opinion, view
spoke his piece
10
a
vulgar : an act of copulation
b
vulgar : the female partner in sexual intercourse
11
: instance, example
silly piece of nonsense
a nice piece of acting

piece

2 of 2

verb

pieced; piecing

transitive verb

1
: to repair, renew, or complete by adding pieces : patch
2
: to join into a whole
often used with together
his new book … has been pieced together from talks Merle Miller
piecer noun
Phrases
of a piece
: alike, consistent
piece of one's mind
: a severe scolding : tongue-lashing
piece of the action
: a share in activity or profit
to pieces
1
: without reserve or restraint : completely
2
: into fragments
also : into component parts
3
: out of control
went to pieces from shock

Synonyms

Noun

  • bit
  • fraction
  • fragment
  • scrap

Verb

  • assemble
  • build
  • confect
  • construct
  • erect
  • fabricate
  • make
  • make up
  • put up
  • raise
  • rear
  • set up
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Example Sentences

Noun Divide the pie into six equal pieces. The cheese was cut into small pieces and arranged on a silver platter. You have a piece of lettuce stuck between your teeth. Her broken bicycle lay in pieces by the side of the road. I watched her rip the letter to pieces and throw it away. There are 12 pieces in this stainless steel knife set. a jigsaw puzzle with 500 pieces We're missing one piece of the puzzle. I took apart the engine piece by piece and put it back together again. Verb you might want to piece together a quilt from those odd patches of cloth See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Mazzoli created a lush score that was alternately sweeping or intimate, sensuous or mystical, yet with a distinctive sound that was her own weaving a thread through the piece. Janelle Gelfand, Cincinnati.com, 19 July 2017 This is why the war stories of Tom Clancy are such convincing and moving pieces of fiction. Janine Barchas, Washington Post, 18 July 2017 Saturday evening, the British Broadcasting Corporation posted a piece about the ancient cypress forest discovered sixty feet underwater in the Gulf of Mexico, attracting the international attention. Ben Raines, AL.com, 17 July 2017 After cutting your lemon (or lime) in half, cut a small piece of skin off of the other side. Carly Breit, Country Living, 14 July 2017 The public offers a piece of its mind Mic's Celeste Katz discloses that Trump's controversial voter fraud panel won't let the public speak at its first meeting on July 19 but did solicit emails. The Hive, 14 July 2017 Alan Jacobs, a professor at Baylor University, has written eloquently about that last piece. Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 14 July 2017 For those not in the know, Polar Pizza involves a double fudge brownie crust and mint chocolate chip ice cream topped with Oreo cookie pieces. Cole Kazdin, Los Angeles Magazine, 14 July 2017 His beautiful portrait of Ken Moody, one of an edition of ten, was on sale for £25,000 ($31,650), about five times the price of one of Ms Yass’s pieces. The Economist, 13 July 2017
Verb
The team includes experts in animal necropsy, and investigators will also interview park officials to help piece together what happened to the tortoises, Ecuadoran prosecutors said. Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022 Nevertheless, her car was seen there about an hour and a half after leaving the gas station, leaving Alberta trying to piece together what happened that night. Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 17 Aug. 2022 Investigators are working to piece together the fire’s origins. Hannah Frystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2022 Investigators are working to piece together a possible motive for the shooting, which has left questions over its location, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation. Travis Caldwell, CNN, 25 Mar. 2021 Escudero-Kontostathis is still trying to piece together parts of time missing from her memory, but remembers meeting and talking to the Muellers, who were visiting from Wisconsin, before they were all struck. Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 18 Aug. 2022 To uncover the whole story, astronomers search for many disk-wreathed planetary systems at different stages of evolution, gathering multiple snapshots to piece together in a time line. Briley Lewis, Scientific American, 4 Aug. 2022 Detective Benoit Blanc, played by Daniel Craig, enters the picture and tries to piece together this curious case. Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 30 June 2022 In this video, a group of law enforcement officers tries to piece together how events in the church played out. Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Vulgar Latin *pettia, of Gaulish origin; akin to Welsh peth thing

First Known Use

Noun

13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

piece 1 of 2

noun

ˈpēs How to pronounce piece (audio)
1
: a part cut, torn, or broken from something
a piece of pie
2
: one of a group, set, or mass of things
a piece of mail
a three-piece suit
3
: a portion marked off
a piece of land
4
: a single item or example
a piece of news
5
: a definite amount or size in which something is made or sold
a piece of paper
6
: something made or written
a piece of music
7
: a movable object used in playing a board game
a chess piece
8
: coin entry 1 sense 1
a fifty-cent piece

piece

2 of 2

verb

pieced; piecing
: to join into a whole : connect the parts or pieces of
I pieced a puzzle together.

to pieces

phrase

1
as in apart
into parts or pieces The vase broke to pieces when it fell.

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance
  • apart
  • piecemeal
  • asunder

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • together
2
as in well
to a full extent or degree It was smashed to pieces and beyond repair.

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • well
  • perfectly
  • wide
  • thoroughly
  • completely
  • out
  • all of
  • full
  • all
  • all over
  • enough
  • fast
  • entire
  • to bits
  • entirely
  • fully
  • exactly
  • dead
  • altogether
  • utterly
  • flat
  • quite
  • totally
  • wholly
  • through and through
  • to the max
  • heartily
  • in whole
  • at length
  • all the way
  • even
  • soundly
  • for fair
  • down to the ground
  • to the hilt
  • clean
  • plain
  • absolutely
  • cold
  • plumb
  • largely
  • generally
  • overall
  • downright
  • substantially
  • primarily
  • mostly
  • basically
  • principally
  • mainly
  • categorically
  • stone
  • predominantly
  • more or less
  • chiefly
  • greatly
  • by and large
  • hands down
  • predominately
  • unqualifiedly
  • stone-cold
  • abundantly
  • generously
  • copiously

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • kind of
  • part
  • half
  • partly
  • just
  • partially
  • slightly
  • hardly
  • halfway
  • barely
  • scarcely
  • approximately
  • somewhat
  • incompletely
  • roughly
  • marginally
  • superficially
  • minimally
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