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   Piece

   /pēs/

   

   noun

   • 1. a portion of an object or of material, produced by cutting, tearing, or breaking the whole: "a piece of cheese" Similar bitsectionslicechunksegmentlumphunkwedgeslabknobblockcakebartabletbrickcubesticklengthoffcutsampleparticlefragmentflakesliversplinterwaferchipcrumbgrainspeckscrapremnantshredshardsnippetmitemouthfulmorselinformal:wodge
   • ▪ one of the items that were put together to make something and into which it naturally divides: "take a car to pieces" Similar componentpartbitsectionsegmentconstituentelementunitmodule
   • ▪ an item of a particular type, especially one forming one of a set: "a piece of luggage" Similar componentpartbitsectionsegmentconstituentelementunitmodule
   • ▪ an instance or example: "a crucial piece of evidence" Similar examplespecimensampleinstanceillustrationoccurrencecase
   • ▪ a financial share: "each employee owns a piece of the company" Similar sharesliceportionquotapartbitpercentageamountquantityrationfractiondivisionsubdivisionallocationallotmentmeasureapportionmentinformal:cutwhackrake-offrare:quantummoiety
   • ▪ a written, musical, or artistic creation or composition: "a hauntingly beautiful piece of music" Similar work of artworkmusical workcompositioncreationproductionopusarticleitemstoryreportessaystudyreviewcompositionpapercolumn
   • ▪ a coin of specified value: "a 10-cent piece"
   • ▪ a figure or token used to make moves in a board game. Similar tokencountermandiskchipmarker
   • ▪ a king, queen, bishop, knight, or rook, as opposed to a pawn.
   • ▪ a firearm.
   • ▪ a woman.

   verb

   • 1. assemble something from individual parts: "the children took turns piecing together each other's jigsaw puzzle"
   • ▪ slowly make sense of something from separate facts and pieces of evidence: "Daniel had pieced the story together from the radio"
   • 2. extend something: archaic "his coming and assisting them was like a cordial given to a dying man, which doth piece out his life"
   • 3. patch (something): archaic "if it be broken it must be pieced"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French piece (compare with medieval Latin pecia, petium), of obscure ultimate origin.

   Scrabble Points: 9

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