piece
- noun
- /piːs/
- After searching for hours, she finally found the missing piece for her jigsaw puzzle.
- puzzle pieces
- a chess piece
- pieces that fit
Chess is a set of pieces to understand.
- Chess is a set of pieces to understand.
- And some of these pieces like a sweater.
- And then the shorts in this piece look like this.
- I have never had in all my life a piece of Lego this big.
- So I'm just going to grab small pieces and start wrapping it.
- If I press the right piece and up, it pops.
- It is composed of specialized pieces with fixed roles.
- Oh, it's a two piece that is so random.
Examples
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If you do this, you get the last puzzle piece, which is water.
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So what we've got right here is a three piece set from Seacraft.
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And so we just have a piece like this, OK.
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These were some pieces that I just loved.
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And once all these pieces are in position...
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So first I'll keep this piece here on the left.
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Children were required to circle the replacement piece that best completed the patterns.
Academic text (2013) -
I have never had in all my life a piece of Lego this big.
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My own view is that both forces are central pieces of the inner-city poverty puzzle.
Academic text (1991) -
And then I've got these triangular pieces which go like so.
Synonyms
A piece of something that, with others, makes a whole
A single thing in a list or collection
A single thing or part that belongs to a larger whole
A single piece that makes up a larger object
Antonyms
Idioms
Tell someone angrily that you are upset with them
- Informal
Say this when you cannot give a clear answer because it depends on things you do not know
Compounds
- Offensive
A person or thing that is very bad and has no value used to insult someone
- Informal
Something impressive but difficult, for example a book or building, and sometimes a person who behaves strangely
Clothing made of three matching pieces, usually a jacket, trousers and a waistcoat
- Archaic
An old Spanish silver coin worth eight reales used widely in trade from the 1500s to 1800s
- Literature
An article in a newspaper or magazine that gives opinions to start a discussion
- Offensive
An insulting label for an article that pretends to support social causes but has no real ideas
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Piece originally meant 'part', so an item like a chess piece is simply one single 'part' of the set; think of each game item as one piece that belongs to the whole board.