Piece
[piːs] or [pis]
Definition
(noun.) a separate part of a whole; 'an important piece of the evidence'.
(noun.) an item that is an instance of some type; 'he designed a new piece of equipment'; 'she bought a lovely piece of china';.
(noun.) a distance; 'it is down the road a piece'.
(noun.) an artistic or literary composition; 'he wrote an interesting piece on Iran'; 'the children acted out a comic piece to amuse the guests'.
(noun.) an instance of some kind; 'it was a nice piece of work'; 'he had a bit of good luck'.
(noun.) a serving that has been cut from a larger portion; 'a piece of pie'; 'a slice of bread'.
(verb.) repair by adding pieces; 'She pieced the china cup'.
(verb.) join during spinning; 'piece the broken pieces of thread, slivers, and rovings'.
Typed by Keller--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piece of sugar; to break in pieces.
(n.) A definite portion or quantity, as of goods or work; as, a piece of broadcloth; a piece of wall paper.
(n.) Any one thing conceived of as apart from other things of the same kind; an individual article; a distinct single effort of a series; a definite performance
(n.) A literary or artistic composition; as, a piece of poetry, music, or statuary.
(n.) A musket, gun, or cannon; as, a battery of six pieces; a following piece.
(n.) A coin; as, a sixpenny piece; -- formerly applied specifically to an English gold coin worth 22 shillings.
(n.) A fact; an item; as, a piece of news; a piece of knowledge.
(n.) An individual; -- applied to a person as being of a certain nature or quality; often, but not always, used slightingly or in contempt.
(n.) One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn.
(n.) A castle; a fortified building.
(v. t.) To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; as, to piece a garment; -- often with out.
(v. t.) To unite; to join; to combine.
(v. i.) To unite by a coalescence of parts; to fit together; to join.
Inputed by Dennis
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Part, portion, section, fragment, bit, scrap.[2]. Composition, writing, lucubration, literary production.[3]. Gun, cannon, fire-arm.
Typed by Bartholdi
Definition
n. a part of anything: a single article: a definite quantity as of cloth or paper: an amount of work to be done at one time: a separate performance: a literary or artistic composition: a gun: a coin: a man in chess or draughts: a person generally a woman in contempt.—v.t. to enlarge by adding a piece: to patch.—v.i. to unite by a joining of parts: to join.—n.pl. Piece′-goods cotton linen woollen or silk fabrics sold retail in varying lengths.—adj. Piece′less not made of pieces: entire.—adv. Piece′meal in pieces or fragments: by pieces: little by little: bit by bit: gradually.—adj. made of pieces: single: separate.—ns. Piec′ener a piecer; Piec′ening or Piec′ing the act of mending esp. the joining of the ends of yarn thread &c. so as to repair breaks; Piec′er a boy or girl employed in a spinning-factory to join broken threads; Piece′work work done by the piece or quantity rather than by time.—Pié‘“e de ré–Ÿistance principal piece: chief event or performance: chief dish at a dinner; Piece of eight the Spanish peso duro ('hard dollar') bearing the numeral 8 of the value of 8 reals (prob. the sign $ is derived from this); Piece out to put together bit by bit; Piece up to patch up.—Give a piece of one's mind to give a rating frankly to any one's face; Of a piece as if of the same piece the same in nature &c.
Typed by Konrad
Examples
- A piece of tapestry over a door also showed a blue-green world with a pale stag in it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- What I mean is, Lizzie, that I am a mere impertinent piece of conceit, and you shame me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I asked George Lamb if he had heard Mr. Livius's new piece. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I have called this misplaced rationality a piece of learned folly, because it shows itself most dangerously among those thinkers about politics who are divorced from action. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Move the lens so that its distance from the candle is increased, and then find the image on a piece of paper. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- To obtain a true photograph, the negative is placed on a piece of sensitive photographic paper, or paper coated with a silver salt in the same manner as the plate and films. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- When I left, Estella was yet standing by the great chimney-piece, just as she had stood throughout. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I cut the cheese into pieces and laid them on the macaroni. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Such an arrangement of wire is known as a helix or solenoid, and is capable of lifting or pulling larger and more numerous filings and even good-sized pieces of iron, such as tacks. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It was spacious, and I dare say had once been handsome, but every discernible thing in it was covered with dust and mould, and dropping to pieces. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The coinage of the United States mints since the organization of the government has amounted to nearly 6,000,000,000 pieces, valued at over $4,000,000,000. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Why should the brain be enclosed in a box composed of such numerous and such extraordinarily shaped pieces of bone apparently representing vertebrae? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He made experiments, and at last succeeded in rendering the copper negatively electrical by the use of small pieces of tin, zinc, or iron nails. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The two pointed pieces of hard conducting carbon used for the separated terminals constitute the voltaic arc light--a light only excelled in intense brilliancy by the sun itself. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- All the letters had been pieced together with strips of thin paper. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The schoolmaster went his way, brooding and brooding, and a sense of being vanquished in a struggle might have been pieced out of his worried face. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Bit by bit other fragments of this skull were hunted out from the quarry heaps until most of it could be pieced together. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- With nearer approach these fragmentary sounds became pieced together, and were found to be the salient points of the tune called Nancy's Fancy. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Edited by Arnold