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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. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › piecePiece Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

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   The meaning of PIECE is a part of a whole. How to use piece in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Piece.

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

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   PIECE definition: 1. a part of something: 2. a single object of a particular type: 3. an item of clothing…. Learn more.

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   noun. a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate. Synonyms: fragment, scrap, segment, section. Antonyms: whole. a quantity of some substance or material forming a single mass or body: a nice piece of lumber. a more or less definite portion or quantity of a whole:

5. www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › piecePiece - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com

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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.

6. www.thefreedictionary.com › piecePiece - definition of piece by The Free Dictionary

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   n. 1. A thing considered as a unit or an element of a larger thing, quantity, or class; a portion: a piece of string. 2. A portion or part that has been separated from a whole: a piece of pie. 3. An object that is one member of a group or class: a piece of furniture. 4.

7. dictionary.cambridge.org › learner-english › piecePIECE | definition in the Cambridge Learner’s Dictionary

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   PIECE meaning: 1. an amount of something, or a part of something: 2. one of a particular type of thing: 3. some…. Learn more.

8. www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com › definitionpiece noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage ...

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   Definition of piece noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.