:a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
:a quantity of some substance or material forming a single mass or body: a nice piece of lumber.
:a more or less definite portion or quantity of a whole: to cut a blueberry pie into six pieces.
:a particular length, as of certain goods prepared for the market: cloth sold by the piece.
:an amount of work forming a single job: to be paid by the piece and not by the hour.
: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.
:one of the parts that, when assembled, form a whole: the pieces of a clock.
:an individual article of a set or collection: a set of dishes containing 100 pieces.
:Games. one of the figures, disks, blocks, or the like, of wood, plastic, ivory, or other material, used in playing a board game. a king, queen, bishop, knight, or rook; a superior man or figure, as distinguished from a pawn: One of the opening principles in chess is piece development.
“It was ludicrous,” she said of the piece, which ran in June.
Likewise, I may update this piece as more information becomes available.
You start with a theory of small pieces, say the atoms in a billiard ball.
What to remember when casting your ballotThe most important piece of advice you’ll need when voting, early or not, is to follow directions carefully.
So some of the people I spoke to while reporting this piece explained that there are some inconsistencies between the decree that brought in this database and the data sharing and the new data law, the LGPD.
The well, ghost or no ghost, is certainly a piece of history with a bold presence.
My doctor insisted that once I filed this piece I lie down on my bed and not get out.
Last March they gave Airbus a huge piece of new business, ordering 169 A320s and 65 of the slightly larger A321.
The attempt to “breed back” the Auroch of Teutonic legend was of a piece with the Nazi obsession with racial purity and eugenics.
However, an article designed to act as a tie-in to the piece has been published as planned in the BBC magazine Radio Times.
I assure you, no matter how beautifully we play any piece, the minute Liszt plays it, you would scarcely recognize it!
:an individual thing of a particular class or kind: a piece of furniture; a piece of drawing paper.
:an example, specimen, or instance of something: a fine piece of workmanship.
:one of the parts into which a thing is destructively divided or broken; a part, fragment, or shred: to tear a letter into pieces.
:Informal. a rifle, pistol, or other small firearm.a cannon or other unit of ordnance: Each field piece was drawn by six horses.
:a coin: a five-cent piece.
:Midland and Southern U.S. a distance: I'm going down the road a piece.
:Chiefly North Midland U.S. a snack.
:Also called piece of ass. Slang: Vulgar. Usually Disparaging and Offensive.a person, usually a woman, considered as a sexual partner: His ex-girlfriend was one fine piece.sexual intercourse: He's always looking for piece of ass.
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pieced, piec·ing.
:to mend by adding, joining, or applying a piece or pieces; patch.
:to complete, enlarge, or extend by an added piece or something additional: to piece out a library with new books.
:to make by or as if by joining pieces: to piece a quilt; to piece together a musical program.
:to join together, as pieces or parts: to piece together the fragments of a broken dish.
:to join as a piece or addition to something: to piece new wire into the cable.
:to assemble into a meaningful whole by combining available facts, information, details, etc.: He pieced the story together after a lot of effort.
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pieced, piec·ing.
:Chiefly North Midland U.S. to eat small portions of food between meals; snack.