piece

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Noun

Singular piece

Plural pieces

1. A piece is a part of something that can be or has been separated from it.

   The man cut a piece of meat and a piece of cake for dinner.

   I own a piece of land in the country.

2. A piece is one example of a class or set of things.

   He put a piece of wood on the fire.

   Can I have a piece of paper to write on?

3. A piece is something that is made by an artist.

   The piece of music was beautiful.

   I thought his earlier pieces were more creative than his more recent stuff.

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  Chess pieces

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  A piece of cake

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  The broken pieces of a sand dollar

Related words

• piecemeal

Verb

Plain form piece

Third-person singular pieces

Past tense pieced

Past participle pieced

Present participle piecing

1. (transitive & intransitive) If you piece something together, you use bring together enough information to understand something.

   They gathered enough information to piece together the family history.

2. (transitive & intransitive) If you piece something together, you put the pieces together.

   The scientists moved their shop to an empty parking lot to piece together all the bones.