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Piece

noun

1.

A separate part of a whole.

2.

An item that is an instance of some type. "She bought a lovely piece of china"

3.

A portion of a natural object. Synonym: part. "He needed a piece of granite"

4.

A musical work that has been created. Synonyms: composition, musical composition, opus, piece of music.

5.

An instance of some kind. Synonym: bit. "He had a bit of good luck"

6.

An artistic or literary composition. "The children acted out a comic piece to amuse the guests"

7.

A portable gun. Synonyms: firearm, small-arm.

8.

A serving that has been cut from a larger portion. Synonym: slice. "A slice of bread"

9.

A distance.

10.

A work of art of some artistic value. Synonyms: art object, objet d'art. "It is not known who created this piece"

11.

A period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition. Synonyms: patch, spell, while. "I need to rest for a piece" , "A spell of good weather" , "A patch of bad weather"

12.

A share of something. Synonym: slice.

13.

Game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games. Synonym: man. "He sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage"

verb

(past & past part. pieced; pres. part. piecing)

1.

To join or unite the pieces of. Synonym: patch.

2.

Create by putting components or members together. Synonyms: assemble, put together, set up, tack, tack together. "He tacked together some verses" , "They set up a committee"

3.

Join during spinning.

4.

Eat intermittently; take small bites of. Synonyms: nibble, pick. "She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles"

5.

Repair by adding pieces. Synonym: patch.

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"Piece" Quotes from Famous Books

... mine and shouted that he had a horse which none of them could mount. He offered five hundred dollars to the man who could back him; and made it good by going out of the building and coming back inside of five minutes with two men leading a great stallion, the ugliest piece of horseflesh I've ...

— Trailin'! • Max Brand

... where no other granite is. It belongs to no neighbouring formation. It stands alone, throwing up its rugged peaks into a cloudless sky. It is a piece from nothing near it—-from nothing nearer, one must conclude, than the moon. No wonder it stirred the imagination of mediaeval men dimly ...

— The Velvet Glove • Henry Seton Merriman

... many tendrils of greenish-brown vine which possessed remarkable strength. With their knives they cut a long section of this vine, the ends of which were then tied into loops large enough to permit the sailors to sit in them comfortably. The connecting piece Rob padded with seaweed gathered from the shore, to prevent its cutting into ...

— The Master Key - An Electrical Fairy Tale • L. Frank Baum

... that,' he said, 'though I wanted money badly enough. There has never been a strange master at Cumber since it belonged to the Egertons. I daresay it's a foolish piece of sentimentality on my part; but I had rather fancy the old place rotting slowly to decay than in the ...

— Milly Darrell and Other Tales • M. E. Braddon

... ever so many wooden keys like the inside of a piano—only those are set in circles. It fits close to the head and you can make it looser or tighter, and when you've got it on you look like a Siamese king in his crown. And when you take it off you tear out a piece of paper and that gives you the exact measure to a hair's-breadth. Come, ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 18, 1914 • Various

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