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   piece

   /piːs/

   noun

   • 1. a portion of an object or of material, produced by cutting, tearing, or breaking the whole: "a piece of cheese" Similar bitsectionslicechunksegmentlumphunkwedgeslabknobblockcakebartabletbrickcubesticklengthoffcutsampleparticlefragmentflakesliversplinterwaferchipcrumbgrainspeckscrapremnantshredshardsnippetmitemouthfulmorselinformal:wodge
   • ▪ an item used in constructing something: "take a car to pieces" Similar componentpartbitsectionsegmentconstituentelementunitmodule
   • ▪ an item forming part of a set: "a piece of luggage" Similar componentpartbitsectionsegmentconstituentelementunitmodule
   • ▪ a financial share: "each employee owns a piece of the company" Similar sharesliceportionquotapartbitpercentageamountquantityrationfractiondivisionsubdivisionallocationallotmentmeasureapportionmentinformal:cutwhackrake-offrare:quantummoiety
   • 2. a written, musical, or artistic creation: "a haunting piece of music" Similar work of artworkmusical workcompositioncreationproductionopusarticleitemstoryreportessaystudyreviewcompositionpapercolumn
   • 3. an instance or example: "a crucial piece of evidence" Similar examplespecimensampleinstanceillustrationoccurrencecase
   • 4. a coin of specified value: "a 10p piece"
   • 5. a figure or token used to make moves in a board game: "a chess piece" Similar tokencountermandiscchipmarker
   • ▪ a king, queen, bishop, knight, or rook, as opposed to a pawn: "indicate which piece or pawn is taken"
   • 6. a firearm. informal North American
   • 7. a woman. offensive
   • 8. a sandwich or other item of food taken as a snack. Scottish

   verb

   • 1. assemble something from parts or pieces: "the dinosaur was pieced together from 119 bones"
   • ▪ slowly make sense of something from separate pieces of evidence: "Daniel had pieced the story together from the radio"
   • 2. extend something: archaic "his coming and assisting them was like a cordial given to a dying man, which doth piece out his life"
   • 3. patch (something): archaic "if it be broken it must be pieced"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French piece (compare with medieval Latin pecia, petium), of obscure ultimate origin.

   Scrabble Points: 9

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2. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishPIECE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   • Znaczenie Piece, Definicja W Cambridge English Dictionary

     piece definicja: 1. a part of something: 2. a single object...

   • Piece: German Translation

     PIECE translate: das Stück, das Stück, das Stück, das Stück,...

   • Piece: Italian Translation

     PIECE translate: pezzo, pezzo, brano, capo, pezzo, pezzo,...

   • Piece: Thai Translation

     PIECE translate: ชิ้นส่วน, ชิ้น, บทประพันธ์เพลง,...

   • Piece: Russian Translation

     PIECE translate: кусок, часть , предмет , употребляется с...

   • Piece: Catalan Translation

     PIECE translate: tros, unitat, peça, tros, porció, peça....

   • Piece: Czech Translation

     piece - translate into Czech with the English-Czech...

   • Piece: Norwegian Translation

     piece - translate into Norwegian with the English-Norwegian...

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   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.

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8. www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com › definition › englishpiece noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes...

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