Piece - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
she bought a lovely piece of china
- an instance of some kind (syn: bit)
the children acted out a comic piece to amuse the guests
- a serving that has been cut from a larger portion (syn: slice)
- game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games (syn: man)
verb
- create by putting components or members together (syn: assemble, set up, tack)
Extra examples
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.
...you might want to piece together a quilt from those odd patches of cloth...
The local paper did a piece about me.
We'll stop down the road a piece and give the horse some more hay.
She pieced the skirt with a patch of black silk.
He dished the Greek shield from a single sheet of copper and pieced the rim.
The patchwork was pieced into unusual long hexagon shapes.
Word forms
I/you/we/they: piece
he/she/it: pieces
present participle: piecing
past tense: pieced
past participle: pieced
singular: piece
plural: pieces
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