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piece

[pees]

noun, verb, pieced, piec⋅ing.

–noun

1.	a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.

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

3.	a more or less definite portion or quantity of a whole: to cut a blueberry pie into six pieces.

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

5.	an amount of work forming a single job: to be paid by the piece and not by the hour.

6.	an example of workmanship, esp. of artistic production, as a picture or a statue: The museum has some interesting pieces by Picasso.

7.	a literary composition, usually short, in prose or verse.

8.	a literary selection for recitation: Each child had a chance to recite a piece.

9.	a musical composition.

10.	one of the parts that, when assembled, form a whole: the pieces of a clock.

11.	an individual article of a set or collection: a set of dishes containing 100 pieces.

12.

Chess, Checkers.

a.	one of the figures, disks, blocks, or the like, of wood, ivory, or other material, used in playing, as on a board or table.

b.	(in chess) a superior man, as distinguished from a pawn: to take a rook, a bishop, and other pieces.

13.	a token, charm, or amulet: a good-luck piece.

14.	an individual thing of a particular class or kind: a piece of furniture; a piece of drawing paper.

15.	an example, specimen, or instance of something: a fine piece of workmanship.

16.	one of the parts into which a thing is destructively divided or broken; a part, fragment, or shred: to tear a letter into pieces.

17.

Military.

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

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

18.	a coin: a five-cent piece.

19.	Midland and Southern U.S. a distance: I'm going down the road a piece.

20.	Chiefly North Midland U.S. a snack.

21.

Also called piece of ass. Slang: Vulgar.

coitus.

b.	a person considered as a partner in coitus.

–verb (used with object)

22.	to mend (a garment, article, etc.) by adding, joining, or applying a piece or pieces; patch.

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

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

25.	to join together, as pieces or parts: to piece together the fragments of a broken dish.

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

27.	to assemble into a meaningful whole by combining available facts, information, details, etc.: He pieced the story together after a lot of effort.

–verb (used without object)

28.	Chiefly North Midland U.S. to eat small portions of food between meals; snack.

—Idioms

29.	give someone a piece of one's mind. mind (def. 35).

30.

go to pieces,

a.	to break into fragments.

b.	to lose control of oneself; become emotionally or physically upset: When he flunked out of medical school he went to pieces.

31.	of a piece, of the same kind; harmonious; consistent. Also, of one piece.

32.	piece of the action. action (def. 23).

33.	speak one's piece, to express one's opinion; reveal one's thoughts upon a subject: I decided to speak my piece whether they liked it or not.

Origin:
1175–1225; ME pece < OF < Gaulish *pettia; akin to Breton pez piece, Welsh, Cornish peth thing

Synonyms:
1. section, segment, scrap, fragment. See part. 23. augment.

Antonyms:
1. whole.

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piece (pēs)

A thing considered as a unit or an element of a larger thing, quantity, or class; a portion: a piece of string.
A portion or part that has been separated from a whole: a piece of cake.
An object that is one member of a group or class: a piece of furniture.
An artistic, musical, or literary work or composition: "They are lively and well-plotted pieces, both in prose" (Tucker Brooke).
An instance; a specimen: a piece of sheer folly.
A declaration of one's opinions or findings: speak one's piece.
A coin: a ten-cent piece.
Games
1. One of the counters or figures used in playing various board games.
2. Any one of the chess figures other than a pawn.
Slang A firearm, especially a rifle.
Informal A given distance: "There was farm country down the road on the right a piece" (James Agee).
Vulgar Slang A sexually attractive person.

tr.v. pieced, piec·ing, piec·es

To mend by adding pieces or a piece to.
To join or unite the pieces of: He pieced together the vase. She pieced together an account of what had gone on during the stormy meeting.

[Middle English pece, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *pettia, probably of Celtic origin.]

Pieces

(1) of silver. In Ps. 68:30 denotes "fragments," and not properly money. In 1 Sam. 2:36 (Heb. agorah), properly a "small sum" as wages, weighed rather than coined. Josh. 24:32 (Heb. kesitah, q.v.), supposed by some to have been a piece of money bearing the figure of a lamb, but rather simply a certain amount. (Comp. Gen. 33:19). (2.) The word pieces is omitted in many passages, as Gen. 20:16; 37:28; 45:22, etc. The passage in Zech. 11:12, 13 is quoted in the Gospel (Matt. 26:15), and from this we know that the word to be supplied is "shekels." In all these omissions we may thus warrantably supply this word. (3.) The "piece of money" mentioned in Matt. 17:27 is a stater=a Hebrew shekel, or four Greek drachmae; and that in Luke 15:8, 9, Act 19:19, a Greek drachma=a denarius. (See PENNY.)

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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