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- DictionaryPiece/pēs/
noun
- 1. a portion of an object or of material, produced by cutting, tearing, or breaking the whole: "a piece of cheese"
verb
- 1. assemble something from individual parts: "the children took turns piecing together each other's jigsaw puzzle"
- 2. extend something: archaic "his coming and assisting them was like a cordial given to a dying man, which doth piece out his life"
A piece is a section or a chunk of some larger thing, like a piece of cake or a piece of a broken lamp. You can describe a serving of something, like pie, as a piece, and you can also call an individual item within a larger group a piece, like a piece of furniture or a piece of silverware.
piece noun [C] (AMOUNT/PART) Add to word list. Add to word list. A2. an amount of something, or a part of something: a piece of paper / wood. She cut the flan into eight pieces. Some of the pieces seem to be missing. These shoes are falling to pieces (= breaking into pieces).
1 day ago · piece in American English. (pis ) noun. 1. a part or fragment broken or separated from the whole. 2. a section, division, or quantity regarded as complete in itself and distinct from the whole of which it is a part. 3. any single thing, amount, specimen, example, etc.
to say exactly what you feel or think. See piece in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Check pronunciation: piece. Definition of piece noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. A thing considered as a unit or an element of a larger thing, quantity, or class; a portion: a piece of string. 2. A portion or part that has been separated from a whole: a piece of pie. 3. An object that is one member of a group or class: a piece of furniture. 4.
Definition of piece noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. piece. noun. /piːs/ Idioms. separate amount. [countable] (used especially with of and uncountable nouns) an amount of something that has been cut or separated from the rest of it; a standard amount of something. piece of something She wrote something on a small piece of paper.
Britannica Dictionary definition of PIECE. 1. [count] a : an amount that is cut or separated from a larger section of something. Divide the pie into six equal pieces. The cheese was cut into small pieces and arranged on a silver platter. — often + of. I need a few more pieces of tape. a long piece of string.
