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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.
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.
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).
3 days 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.
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.
