pieces
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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, especially of artistic production, as a picture or a statue: The museum has some interesting pieces by Picasso.
7.
a literary or journalistic 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.
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 followed by out ): to piece out a library with new books.
24.
to make by or as if by joining pieces (often followed 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.
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verb (used without object)
Idioms 28.
Chiefly North Midland U.S. to eat small portions of food between meals; snack.
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of a piece, of the same kind; harmonious; consistent. Also, of one piece.
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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.
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piece (piːs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | an amount or portion forming a separate mass or structure; bit: a piece of wood |
| 2. | a small part, item, or amount forming part of a whole, esp when broken off or separated: a piece of bread |
| 3. | a length by which a commodity is sold, esp cloth, wallpaper, etc |
| 4. | an instance or occurrence: a piece of luck |
| 5. | slang a girl or woman regarded as an object of sexual attraction: a nice piece |
| 6. | an example or specimen of a style or type, such as an article of furniture: a beautiful piece of Dresden china |
| 7. | informal an opinion or point of view: to state one's piece |
| 8. | a literary, musical, or artistic composition |
| 9. | a coin having a value as specified: fifty-pence piece |
| 10. | a small object, often individually shaped and designed, used in playing certain games, esp board games: chess pieces |
| 11. | a. a firearm or cannon |
| b. (in combination): fowling-piece | |
| 12. | any chessman other than a pawn |
| 13. | (US), (Canadian) a short time or distance: down the road a piece |
| 14. | dialect (Scot), (English) |
| a. a slice of bread or a sandwich | |
| b. a packed lunch taken to work, school, etc | |
| 15. | (Austral), (NZ) (usually plural) See also oddment fragments of fleece wool |
| 16. | informal give someone a piece of one's mind to criticize or censure someone frankly or vehemently |
| 17. | go to pieces |
| a. (of a person) to lose control of oneself; have a breakdown | |
| b. (of a building, organization, etc) to disintegrate | |
| 18. | informal (Brit) nasty piece of work a cruel or mean person |
| 19. | of a piece of the same kind; alike |
| 20. | informal piece of cake something easily obtained or achieved |
| —vb | |
| 21. | ( |
| 22. | ( |
| 23. | textiles to join (broken threads) during spinning |
| [C13 pece, from Old French, of Gaulish origin; compare Breton pez piece, Welsh peth portion] | |
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Word Origin & History
piece
early 13c., "fixed amount, measure, portion," from O.Fr. piece (11c.), from V.L. *pettia, probably from Gaulish (cf. Welsh peth "thing," Breton pez "piece"), from O.Celt. base *pett-. Sense of "portable firearm" first recorded 1580s; that of "chessman" is from 1562. Meaning "person regarded as a sex
object" is first recorded 1785 (cf. piece of ass, human beings colloquially called piece of flesh from 1590s; cf. also L. scortum "bimbo, anyone available for a price," lit. "skin," dim. scortillum "bimbette"). Meaning "a portion of a distance" is from 1612; that of "literary composition" dates from 1530s. The verb meaning "to mend by adding pieces" is recorded from late 14c.; sense of "to join, unite, put together" is from late 15c. Piece of my mind is from 1570s. The Mod.Fr. form is reborrowed into English in pièce de résistance (1839), originally "the most substantial dish in a meal." Piece-work dates from 1540s. Piece of work "remarkable person" echoes Hamlet. Piece of Eight is the old name for the Spanish dollar (c.1600) of the value of 8 reals.
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Slang Dictionary
piece definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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piece (of the action) definitionand bit of the action; slice of the action
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Pieces definition
(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.)
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Example sentences
The process of making batteries isn't so straight forward as welding two pieces together.
Specific pieces by certain potters of the period have become must-haves, while others are relegated to the back shelves.
Our beloved scientists may be building impressive technologies, but some key pieces are missing.
The intricate box, lined with blue velvet, contains pieces of mirror mounted on the rear surface.
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