Definitions for piece

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piece piece

Spelling: [pees]

IPA: /pis/

Piece is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in piece (ceeip).

Definitions for piece

noun

1. a separate or limited portion or quantity of something:
2. a quantity of some substance or material forming a single mass or body:
3. a more or less definite portion or quantity of a whole:
4. a particular length, as of certain goods prepared for the market:
5. an amount of work forming a single job:
6. an example of workmanship, especially of artistic production, as a picture or a statue:
7. a literary or journalistic composition, usually short, in prose or verse.
8. a literary selection for recitation:
9. a musical composition.
10. one of the parts that, when assembled, form a whole:
11. an individual article of a set or collection:
12. Chess, Checkers. one of the figures, disks, blocks, or the like, of wood, ivory, or other material, used in playing, as on a board or table. (in chess) a superior man, as distinguished from a pawn:
13. a token, charm, or amulet:
14. an individual thing of a particular class or kind:
15. an example, specimen, or instance of something:
16. one of the parts into which a thing is destructively divided or broken; a part, fragment, or shred:
17. Military. a soldier's rifle, pistol, etc. a cannon or other unit of ordnance:
18. a coin:
19. Midland and Southern U.S. a distance:
20. Chiefly North Midland U.S. a snack.
21. Also called piece of ass. Slang: Vulgar. Usually Disparaging and Offensive. a person, usually a woman, considered as a sexual partner: sexual intercourse:

Idioms

1. give someone a piece of one's mind. mind (def 38).
2. go to pieces, to break into fragments. to lose control of oneself; become emotionally or physically upset:
3. of a piece, of the same kind; harmonious; consistent. Also, of one piece.
4. piece of the action. action (def 23).
5. piece of work, an extraordinary person, especially one who has extremely negative qualities:
6. speak one's piece, to express one's opinion; reveal one's thoughts upon a subject:

verb (used with object)

1. to mend (a garment, article, etc.) by adding, joining, or applying a piece or pieces; patch.
2. to complete, enlarge, or extend by an added piece or something additional (often followed by out):
3. to make by or as if by joining pieces (often followed by together):
4. to join together, as pieces or parts:
5. to join as a piece or addition to something:
6. to assemble into a meaningful whole by combining available facts, information, details, etc.:

verb (used without object)

1. Chiefly North Midland U.S. to eat small portions of food between meals; snack.

Origin of piece

1175-1225; Middle English pece Old French Gaulish *pettia; akin to Breton pez piece, Welsh, Cornish peth thing

Examples for piece

I think a certain kind of compelling essay has a piece of that.

My doctor insisted that once I filed this piece I lie down on my bed and not get out.

This piece, with the exception of a few lines, has appeared in the Athenaeum.

But I was proposing--I wanted to deed that piece of marsh to you boys!

I did a piece for Elle about the effort to remake her into an elegant presence fashion-wise.

Round this a piece of leather is stretched and dressed with emery.

Her mother had brought her a piece of seed-cake and a cup of milk with the cream on it.

The well, ghost or no ghost, is certainly a piece of history with a bold presence.

I dismounted, and went forward to strike it with a piece of wood.

However, an article designed to act as a tie-in to the piece has been published as planned in the BBC magazine Radio Times.