chess piece
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2.0
- noun
- /tʃɛs pis/
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pieza de ajedrez
- The white chess pieces were arranged neatly on the board before the game began.
It unscrews and inside this chess piece I have a bottle of reactive.
- It unscrews and inside this chess piece I have a bottle of reactive.
- You got to listen and, and look and pay attention and, and, and move how you need to move this chess pieces.
- But the look ahead for driving is more difficult than it is for chess because the other right, there's humans and they're less predictable than chess pieces.
Examples
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The chess pieces don't get to decide when the game is over, now, do they?
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It's a beautifully crafted chess piece in the shape of a horse's head, poise and nobility captured in gleaming stone.
Fiction book (1994) -
How do you touch the chess pieces if...?
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That code probably represents the location of a chess piece.
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Bishop, the chess piece that moves in a diagonal fashion!
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Absentmindedly, Vadim set up wooden chess pieces for a mate-in-three.
Fiction book (1995) -
And there was Fedora, a female Scaramouche, moving her guests, her chess pieces, about the board—although rather willy-nilly, Hugo thought.
Fiction book (1992) -
Fairyland, Isaac's girls call the hillside, and the faraway houses do look like fairy palaces, delicate as chess pieces, exquisitely carved rooks.
Fiction book (1999) -
In a game of chess, each player has 16 chess pieces, including pawns and a king.
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She carefully selected her chess piece and moved it forward two spaces.
Synonyms
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1.0
An object that belongs to a set, like a chess figure
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7.1
A small piece used in board games like chess or checkers
A piece each player uses in a chess game, like a pawn or queen
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Morphology
The meaning is compositionally derived from 'chess' (the game) + 'piece' (an individual item), so 'chess piece' straightforwardly denotes an individual figure used in chess. This noun-noun compounding is a common, cross-linguistic pattern (e.g., Spanish 'pieza de ajedrez'), making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Chess piece comes from the small pieces used on a chess board, like the pawn, knight, bishop, rook, queen or king. That's why chess piece means any of those game figures.