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piece noun [C] (THING) A2. a single object of a particular type: a piece of furniture / clothing / equipment. a piece of paper (= a whole sheet) a piece of china (= an object made of china) a piece of information / advice. an item of clothing, especially one that is expensive, fashionable, or individually made :
part, portion, piece, member, division, section, segment, fragment mean something less than the whole. part is a general term appropriate when indefiniteness is required. portion implies an assigned or allotted part. piece applies to a separate or detached part of a whole.
Pieces definition: the plural of piece. . See examples of PIECES used in a sentence.
IPA guide. Other forms: pieces; pieced; piecing. 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.
Synonyms: stretch, area, spread, tract More Synonyms of piece. 4. countable noun B1. You can use piece of with many uncount nouns to refer to an individual thing of a particular kind. For example, you can refer to some advice as a piece of advice.
an example of workmanship, especially of artistic production, as a picture or a statue: The museum has some interesting pieces by Picasso. a literary or journalistic composition, usually short, in prose or verse. a literary selection for recitation: Each child had a chance to recite a piece. a musical composition.
Definition of piece noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
an example of artistic, musical, or written work: There was an interesting piece on alternative medicine in the paper yesterday. He's got two pieces on show in the Summer exhibition. ten-/twenty-, etc pence piece. a coin with a value of ten/twenty, etc pence (= British money) :
1 [countable] piece (of something) (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 a piece of string/wood She wrote something on a small piece of paper. a large piece of land a piece of cake/cheese/meat He cut the pizza into bite-sized pieces.
Piece Definition. A part or fragment broken or separated from the whole. A section, division, or quantity regarded as complete in itself and distinct from the whole of which it is a part. The quantity or size, as of cloth or wallpaper, that is manufactured as a unit.
