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noun
\ ˈpēs How to pronounce piece (audio) \

Definition of piece

 (Entry 1 of 2)

1 : a part of a whole: such as
a : fragment pieces of broken glass
b : any of the individual members comprising a unit —often used in combination a five-piece banda three-piece suit
c : portion, allocation a piece of the jackpot
2 : an object or individual regarded as a unit of a kind or class a piece of fruit
3 : a usually unspecified distance down the road a piece
4 : a standard quantity (as of length, weight, or size) in which something is made or sold
5 : a literary, journalistic, artistic, dramatic, or musical composition
6 : firearm
7 : coin also : token
8 : a movable object used in playing a board game specifically : a chessman other than a pawn
9 : opinion, view spoke his piece
10a vulgar : an act of copulation
b vulgar : the female partner in sexual intercourse
11 : instance, example silly piece of nonsense a nice piece of acting
of a piece
: alike, consistent
piece of one's mind
: a severe scolding : tongue-lashing
piece of the action
: a share in activity or profit
to pieces
1 : without reserve or restraint : completely
2 : into fragments also : into component parts
3 : out of control went to pieces from shock

piece

verb
pieced; piecing

Definition of piece (Entry 2 of 2)

transitive verb

1 : to repair, renew, or complete by adding pieces : patch
2 : to join into a whole —often used with together his new book … has been pieced together from talks— Merle Miller
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Verb

piecer noun

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Noun

part, portion, piece, member, division, section, segment, fragment mean something less than the whole. part is a general term appropriate when indefiniteness is required. they ran only part of the way portion implies an assigned or allotted part. cut the pie into six portions piece applies to a separate or detached part of a whole. a puzzle with 500 pieces member suggests one of the functional units composing a body. a structural member division applies to a large or diversified part. the manufacturing division of the company section applies to a relatively small or uniform part. the entertainment section of the newspaper segment applies to a part separated or marked out by or as if by natural lines of cleavage. the retired segment of the population fragment applies to a part produced by or as if by breaking off. only a fragment of the play still exists

Examples of piece in a Sentence

Noun

 Divide the pie into six equal pieces. The cheese was cut into small pieces and arranged on a silver platter. You have a piece of lettuce stuck between your teeth. Her broken bicycle lay in pieces by the side of the road. I watched her rip the letter to pieces and throw it away. There are 12 pieces in this stainless steel knife set. a jigsaw puzzle with 500 pieces We're missing one piece of the puzzle. I took apart the engine piece by piece and put it back together again.

Verb

 you might want to piece together a quilt from those odd patches of cloth
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 Mazzoli created a lush score that was alternately sweeping or intimate, sensuous or mystical, yet with a distinctive sound that was her own weaving a thread through the piece. — Janelle Gelfand, Cincinnati.com, "Cincinnati Opera makes history with Missy Mazzoli's 'Song from the Uproar'," 19 July 2017 This is why the war stories of Tom Clancy are such convincing and moving pieces of fiction. — Janine Barchas, Washington Post, "Jane Austen is a fraud," 18 July 2017 Saturday evening, the British Broadcasting Corporation posted a piece about the ancient cypress forest discovered sixty feet underwater in the Gulf of Mexico, attracting the international attention. — Ben Raines, AL.com, "BBC explores Alabama's Underwater Forest, and Reddit hosts an Ask Me Anything," 17 July 2017 After cutting your lemon (or lime) in half, cut a small piece of skin off of the other side. — Carly Breit, Country Living, "You've Been Using a Lemon Juicer All Wrong," 14 July 2017 The public offers a piece of its mind Mic's Celeste Katz discloses that Trump's controversial voter fraud panel won't let the public speak at its

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