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A separate part or item, with uses for works of art and writing, game tokens, coins, informal stretches of time or distance, slang guns and sexual labels, and a verb meaning to join or repair parts.
Examples The creek runs a piece beyond the old bridge.
The stall sold candy by the piece .
Calling someone a piece at work would be insulting.
Put the red piece on the starting square.
The knight is the only piece that jumps over others.
Similar words babe
handgun
article
article
fragment
slice
repair unit
opus
hottie
Meanings Examples He broke off a piece of chocolate.
I wrote the number on a piece of paper.
That piece of advice saved us hours of work.
The vase fell and broke into pieces .
The apartment needs one more piece of furniture.
Similar words part
portion
bit
fragment
section
slice
item
article
Examples The quartet played a short piece by Debussy.
Her latest piece appeared in the Sunday paper.
The gallery bought a large ceramic piece .
The dancer built the piece around silence and small gestures.
He wrote a thoughtful piece about rural schools.
Similar words work
composition
article
essay
artwork
creation
number
opus
Examples Each player starts with sixteen chess pieces .
She moved her piece across the board.
A missing piece made the old game hard to play.
The knight is the only piece that jumps over others.
Put the red piece on the starting square.
Similar words token
counter
marker
chessman
man
playing piece
Examples The child kept a shiny fifty-cent piece .
Pirate stories often mention pieces of eight.
The stall sold candy by the piece .
Collectors argued over the value of the silver piece .
Each handmade tile is priced per piece .
Examples The farmhouse is down the road a piece .
Walk with me a piece before you turn back.
We rested a piece under the trees.
The creek runs a piece beyond the old bridge.
She stayed a piece longer to hear the end of the story.
Similar words while spell
stretch
way
distance
Examples Police said the suspect was carrying a piece .
The old detective novel calls every handgun a piece .
He flashed a piece , and the room went quiet.
The witness heard him brag about a new piece .
In the film, piece marks the speaker as rough and streetwise.
Similar words gun
firearm
handgun
weapon
gat
strap
heater
Examples The script uses piece to show how crude the character is.
Calling someone a piece at work would be insulting.
The old slang dictionary glossed piece as a sexualized label for a woman.
He thought piece sounded flattering, but it landed as sexist.
The editor removed piece because the scene no longer needed that harsh tone.
Similar words hottie
babe
piece of ass
sex object
stunner
Examples Detectives tried to piece together the timeline.
She pieced the quilt from scraps of old shirts.
The archaeologists pieced the bowl together from tiny shards.
We slowly pieced together what had happened.
He pieces broken memories into a clear story.
Similar words assemble
join
patch
mend
reconstruct
repair connect
Etymology From Middle English pece , from Old French piece , from Vulgar Latin pettia , probably of Gaulish origin and related to Welsh peth , meaning a thing. The verb developed from the noun in the sense of mending by adding pieces.
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