| 单词 | piece |
| 释义 | piece (once / 36 pages) 1nv 2n 3n 4n 5n 6n A piece is a section or a chunk of some larger thing, like a piece of cake or a piece of a broken lamp. You can describe a serving of something, like pie, as a piece, and you can also call an individual item within a larger group a piece, like a piece of furniture or a piece of silverware. In this case, you're not breaking off a piece, but you're describing one thing out of a collection. WORD FAMILYpiece: pieced, pieces, piecing USAGE EXAMPLES“There’s some missing piece of the puzzle that we need to find right now,” Lindsay Weekes said. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Trade Representative, a transition official said Monday night, filling in one of the final pieces in the new administration’s senior team. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Its new piece, “The Fever,” pushes that conversation further. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n a separate part of a whole an important piece of the evidence Hypo|Hyper beam long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction piece of cloth, piece of materiala separate part consisting of fabric piece of leathera separate part consisting of leather scrapa small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used fragment, shard, sherda broken piece of a brittle artifact snip, snippet, snippinga small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off) spindlea piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe; used as a baluster, chair leg, etc. bibtop part of an apron; covering the chest box beam, box girdera beam built up from boards; has a hollow rectangular cross section cantileverprojecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only chamois clotha piece of chamois used for washing windows or cars counter, heel countera piece of leather forming the back of a shoe or boot dishcloth, dishraga cloth for washing dishes drop clotha large piece of cloth laid over the floor or furniture while a room is being painted dustcloth, duster, dustraga piece of cloth used for dusting dust cover, dust sheeta large piece of cloth used to cover furniture that is not in use for a long period end, oddment, remainder, remnanta piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold girdera beam made usually of steel; a main support in a structure gore, panela piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails ground cloth, groundsheeta waterproofed piece of cloth spread on the ground (as under a tent) to protect from moisture guimpea piece of starched cloth covering the shoulders of a nun's habit gusset, inseta piece of material used to strengthen or enlarge a garment handkerchief, hankey, hankie, hankya square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory headera framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters header, lintelhorizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window joistbeam used to support floors or roofs keelone of the main longitudinal beams (or plates) of the hull of a vessel; can extend vertically into the water to provide lateral stability keelsona longitudinal beam connected to the keel of ship to strengthen it liner, lininga piece of cloth that is used as the inside surface of a garment longyi, lungi, lungyia long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma patcha piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole placketa piece of cloth sewn under an opening potsherda shard of pottery quarterpiece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp balk, baulk, rafterone of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof rag, shred, tag, tag end, tattera small piece of cloth or paper rider platea horizontal beam (or plate) connected to the top of a ship's vertical keel or to the keelson ridge, ridgepole, rooftreea beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters saddlea piece of leather across the instep of a shoe canvas, canvass, sail, sheeta large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel shore, shoringa beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support swatcha sample piece of cloth tie, tie beama horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating timbera beam made of wood towela rectangular piece of absorbent cloth (or paper) for drying or wiping trainpiece of cloth forming the long back section of a gown that is drawn along the floor crossbeam, crosspiece, trave, traversea horizontal beam that extends across something upperpiece of leather or synthetic material that forms the part of a shoe or boot above the sole that encases the foot vamppiece of leather forming the front part of the upper of a shoe part, portion something less than the whole of a human artifact 2n a serving that has been cut from a larger portion a piece of pie Syn|Hypo|Hyper slice cutlet, escallop, scallop, scollop thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled filet, fillet, fish filet, fish filleta longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish helping, portion, serving an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal 3n a portion of a natural object he needed a piece of granite Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper part North Atlantic that part of the Atlantic Ocean to the north of the equator North Pacificthat part of the Pacific Ocean to the north of the equator South Atlanticthat part of the Atlantic Ocean to the south of the equator South Pacificthat part of the Pacific Ocean to the south of the equator body part any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity corpusthe main part of an organ or other bodily structure aciculaa needlelike part or structure of a plant or animal or crystal; as a spine or bristle or crystal basethe bottom or lowest part cornera projecting part where two sides or edges meet cratonthe part of a continent that is stable and forms the central mass of the continent; typically Precambrian cuttinga piece cut off from the main part of something fragmenta piece broken off or cut off of something else hunk, lumpa large piece of something without definite shape nub, stuba small piece segmentone of the parts into which something naturally divides slicea thin flat piece cut off of some object stripa relatively long narrow piece of something worlda part of the earth that can be considered separately saddleposterior part of the back of a domestic fowl underparta part lying on the lower side or underneath an animal's body horsebackthe back of a horse dockthe solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair ambulacrumone of the five areas on the undersurface of an echinoderm on which the tube feet are located withersthe highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals cannon, shanklower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals loin, lumbuseither side of the backbone between the hipbone and the ribs in humans as well as quadrupeds croup, croupe, hindquarters, rumpthe part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks gaskinlower part of a horse's thigh between the hock and the stifle flankthe side between ribs and hipbone thoraxpart of an insect's body that bears the wings and legs metamere, somiteone of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally apparatus(anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function adnexa, annexaaccessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages to an organ (especially of the embryo) area, regiona part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve dilatora muscle or nerve that dilates or widens a body part groove, vallecula(anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part partition(anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism external body partany body part visible externally anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structurea particular complex anatomical part of a living thing fornixgenerally any arch shaped structure (but often it refers to the arched roof of an anatomical space) systema group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts ampullathe dilated portion of a canal or duct especially of the semicircular canals of the ear tissuepart of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function mentuma projection below the mouth of certain mollusks that resembles a chin organa fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function ventera bulging body part (as the belly of a muscle) energid, protoplasta biological unit consisting of a nucleus and the body of cytoplasm with which it interacts sarcomereone of the segments into which a myofibril is divided appendage, outgrowth, processa natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant lobe(anatomy) a somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part rectumthe terminal section of the alimentary canal; from the sigmoid flexure to the anus shoulderthe part of the body between the neck and the upper arm body, torso, trunkthe body excluding the head and neck and limbs chest, pectus, thoraxthe part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates thoraxthe middle region of the body of an arthropod between the head and the abdomen hipeither side of the body below the waist and above the thigh haunchthe hip and buttock and upper thigh in human beings abdomen, belly, stomach, venterthe region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis dorsumthe back of the body of a vertebrate or any analogous surface (as the upper or outer surface of an organ or appendage or part) back, dorsumthe posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine smallthe slender part of the back ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tushthe fleshy part of the human body that you sit on buttock, cheekeither of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump stumpthe part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed shankthe part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle shinthe front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle toeforepart of a hoof articulatio, articulation, joint(anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) loinsthe region of the hips and groin and lower abdomen feature, lineamentthe characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin rudimentthe remains of a body part that was functional at an earlier stage of life sectiona segment of a citrus fruit bit, chip, flake, fleck, scrapa small fragment of something broken off from the whole brickbata fragment of brick used as a weapon cinder, clinkera fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire clast(geology) a constituent fragment of a clastic rock coal, embera hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering filinga fragment rubbed off by the use of a file nodule(mineralogy) a small rounded lump of mineral substance (usually harder than the surrounding rock or sediment) nubbina small nub (especially an undeveloped fruit or ear of corn) nuggeta solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth paring, shaving, slivera thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something pruningsomething that has been pruned off of a plant restriction fragmentthe fragment of DNA that is produced by cleaving DNA with a restriction enzyme rowa long continuous strip (usually running horizontally) scraping(usually plural) a fragment scraped off of something and collected sectiona very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope spall, spawla fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge sparka small fragment of a burning substance thrown out by burning material or by friction internodea segment of a stem between two nodes thing a separate and self-contained entity 4n a share of something Syn|Hyper slice part, percentage, portion, share assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group 5v to join or unite the pieces of Syn|Hypo|Hyper patch vamp, vamp up piece (something old) with a new part conjoin, join make contact or come together 6v create by putting components or members together She pieced a quilt Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper assemble, put together, set up, tack, tack together break apart, break up, disassemble, dismantle, take apart take apart into its constituent pieces comfit, confect, confection make into a confection confuse, jumble, mix upassemble without order or sense reassembleassemble once again, after taking something apart configureset up for a particular purpose compoundcreate by mixing or combining rig uperect or construct, especially as a temporary measure addle, muddle, puddlemix up or confuse bring together, join cause to become joined or linked create, makemake or cause to be or to become 7v repair by adding pieces She pieced the china cup Syn|Hyper patch bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken 8v join during spinning piece the broken pieces of thread, slivers, and rovings Hyper splice join by interweaving strands 9v eat intermittently; take small bites of 2He pieced at the sandwich all morning Syn|Hyper nibble, pick eat take in solid food 1n an instance of some kind it was a nice piece of work Syn|Hyper bit case, example, instance an occurrence of something 2n an item that is an instance of some type he designed a new piece of equipment she bought a lovely piece of china Hyper item a whole individual unit; especially when included in a list or collection 3n game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games 3he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage Syn|Hypo|Hyper man black (board games) the darker pieces checker, chequerone of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers chess piece, chessmanany of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess tilegame equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games like Mah-Jong, Scrabble, etc. white(board games) the lighter pieces bishop(chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color castle, rook(chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard king(chess) the weakest but the most important piece kinga checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward horse, knighta chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa) pawn(chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank queen(chess) the most powerful piece game equipment equipment or apparatus used in playing a game 1n a work of art of some artistic value it is not known who created this piece Syn|Hypo|Hyper art object, objet d'art virtu objet d'art collectively (especially fine antiques) work of art art that is a product of one of the fine arts (especially a painting or sculpture of artistic merit) 2n an artistic or literary composition he wrote an interesting piece on Iran the children acted out a comic piece to amuse the guests Hypo|Hyper article nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication morceaua short literary or musical composition afterpiecea brief dramatic piece (usually comic) presented after a play fragmentan incomplete piece hiatusa missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript) column, editorial, newspaper columnan article giving opinions or perspectives feature, feature articlea special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine magazine articlean article published in a magazine news article, news story, newspaper articlean article reporting news offprint, reprint, separatea separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication papera scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses think piecean article in a newspaper or magazine or journal that represents opinions and ideas and discussion rather than bare facts bit, snatcha small fragment exodea farcical afterpiece in the ancient Roman theater creation an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone 3n a musical work that has been created 4Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper composition, musical composition, opus, piece of music Hallel (Judaism) a chant of praise (Psalms 113 through 118) used at Passover and Shabuoth and Sukkoth and Hanukkah and Rosh Hodesh Hare Krishnaa chant to the Hindu god Krishna Dies Iraethe first words of a medieval Latin hymn describing the Last Judgment (literally `day of wrath') Internationalea revolutionary socialist anthem Te Deuman ancient liturgical hymn Marseillaisethe French national anthem The Star-Spangled Bannera poem written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812 was set to music and adopted by Congress in 1931 as the national anthem of the United States Magnificat(Luke) the canticle of the Virgin Mary (from Luke 1:46 beginning `Magnificat anima mea Dominum') morceau a short literary or musical composition sheet musica musical composition in printed or written form arrangement, musical arrangementa piece of music that has been adapted for performance by a particular set of voices or instruments realisation, realizationa musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer intermezzoa short piece of instrumental music composed for performance between acts of a drama or opera allegroa musical composition or musical passage to be performed quickly in a brisk lively manner allegrettoa musical composition or musical passage to be performed at a somewhat quicker tempo than andante but not as fast as allegro andantea musical composition or musical passage to be performed moderately slow introita composition of vocal music that is appropriate for opening church services soloa musical composition for one voice or instrument (with or without accompaniment) duet, duette, duoa musical composition for two performers trioa musical composition for three performers quartet, quartettea musical composition for four performers quintet, quintettea musical composition for five performers sestet, sextet, sextettea musical composition written for six performers septet, septettea musical composition written for seven performers octet, octettea musical composition written for eight performers bagatellea light piece of music for piano divertimento, serenadea musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form canona contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts etudea short composition for a solo instrument; intended as an exercise or to demonstrate technical virtuosity idyl, idyll, pastoral, pastoralea musical composition that evokes rural life toccataa baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style fantasiaa musical composition of a free form usually incorporating several familiar themes musical passage, passagea short section of a musical composition movementa major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata largo(music) a composition or passage that is to be performed in a slow and dignified manner larghetto(music) a composition or passage played in a slow tempo slightly faster than largo but slower than adagio suitea musical composition of several movements only loosely connected symphonic poem, tone poeman orchestral composition based on literature or folk tales medley, pastiche, potpourria musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources nocturne, notturnoa pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano) adagio(music) a composition played in adagio tempo (slowly and gracefully) song, vocala short musical composition with words studya composition intended to develop one aspect of the performer's technique capriccioan instrumental composition that doesn't adhere to rules for any specific musical form and is played with improvisation motetan unaccompanied choral composition with sacred lyrics; intended to be sung as part of a church service; originated in the 13th century program music, programme musicmusical compositions intended to evoke images or remind the listener of events incidental musicmusic composed to accompany the action of a drama or to fill intervals between scenes lead sheeta sheet containing the words and melody for a song (and some indication of harmony) written in simple form piano musicsheet music to be played on a piano musical score, scorea written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages religious songreligious music for singing orchestrationan arrangement of a piece of music for performance by an orchestra or band instrumentationthe instruments called for in a musical score or arrangement for a band or orchestra intermezzoa short movement coming between the major sections of a symphony voluntarycomposition (often improvised) for a solo instrument (especially solo organ) and not a regular part of a religious service or musical performance enigma canon, enigmatic canon, enigmatical canon, riddle canona canon in which the entrances of successive parts were indicated by cryptic symbols and devices (popular in the 15th and 16th centuries) introa brief introductory passage to a piece of popular music musical phrase, phrasea short musical passage cadencethe close of a musical section cadenzaa brilliant solo passage occurring near the end of a piece of music scherzoa fast movement (usually in triple time) partita(music) an instrumental suite common in the 18th century anthema song of devotion or loyalty (as to a nation or school) ariaan elaborate song for solo voice ballad, laya narrative song with a recurrent refrain barcarole, barcarollea boating song sung by Venetian gondoliers dittya short simple song (or the words of a poem intended to be sung) coronach, dirge, lament, requiem, threnodya song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person drinking songa song celebrating the joys of drinking; sung at drinking parties folk ballad, folk song, folksonga song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture lieda German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano love song, love-songa song about love or expressing love for another person berceuse, cradlesong, lullabya quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep golden oldie, oldiea song that was formerly popular partsonga song with two or more voice parts prothalamion, prothalamiuma song in celebration of a marriage roundelaya song in which a line or phrase is repeated as the refrain banquet song, scoliona song (sometimes improvised) sung by guests at a banquet serenadea song characteristically played outside the house of a woman torch songa popular song concerned with disappointment in love work songa usually rhythmical song to accompany repetitious work recitativea vocal passage of narrative text that a singer delivers with natural rhythms of speech modulation, transitiona musical passage moving from one key to another impromptua short musical passage that seems to have been made spontaneously without advance preparation music an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner n a portable gun 5Syn|Hypo|Hyper firearm, small-arm autoloader, self-loader a firearm that reloads itself muzzle loaderan obsolete firearm that was loaded through the muzzle handgun, pistol, shooting iron, side arma firearm that is held and fired with one hand repeater, repeating firearma firearm that can fire several rounds without reloading riflea shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore riot guna firearm designed to disperse rioters rather than to inflict serious injury or death scattergun, shotgunfirearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges smoothborea firearm that has no rifling .22, twenty-twoa .22 caliber firearm (pistol or rifle) arquebus, hackbut, hagbut, harquebusan obsolete firearm with a long barrel automatic firearm, automatic gun, automatic weapona firearm that reloads itself and keeps firing until the trigger is released automatic, automatic pistola pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released carbinelight automatic rifle derringera pocket pistol of large caliber with a short barrel firelock, flintlocka muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock forty-fivea .45-caliber pistol fowling piecea light shotgun used for fowling Garand, Garand rifle, M-1, M-1 riflea semiautomatic rifle gat, roda gangster's pistol horse pistol, horse-pistola large pistol (usually in a holster) formerly carried by horsemen Mausertrademark for a repeating rifle or pistol musketa muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen peacekeeperthe pistol of a law officer in the old West revolver, six-gun, six-shootera pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets) Saturday night speciala cheap handgun that is easily obtained sawed-off shotguna shotgun with short barrels semiautomatic firearman autoloader that fires only one shot at each pull of the trigger semiautomatic, semiautomatic pistola pistol that is a semiautomatic firearm capable of loading and firing continuously precision rifle, sniper riflean extremely powerful rifle developed for the military; capable of destroying light armored vehicles and aircraft more than a mile away twenty-two pistola .22-caliber pistol twenty-two riflea .22-caliber rifle Verey pistol, Very pistola pistol for firing Very-light flares Winchestera shoulder rifle zip guna crude homemade pistol gun a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel) n a distance 6it is down the road a piece Hyper distance the property created by the space between two objects or points n a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition I need to rest for a piece Syn|Hypo|Hyper patch, spell, while cold snap, cold spell a spell of cold weather hot spella spell of hot weather snapa spell of cold weather time an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities) |
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