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See also:pièce

English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishpece,peece,peice, fromOld Frenchpiece, fromLate Latinpetia,pettia, possibly fromGaulish*pettyā, fromProto-Celtic*kʷezdis(“piece, portion, quota”); doublet ofEnglishfit,fytte,fytt(“musical piece, chapter”),Icelandicfit(“web”),GermanFitze(“skein”), fromOld High German*fitjâ. CompareWelshpeth,Bretonpez(“thing”),Irishcuid. CompareFrenchpièce,Portuguesepeça,Spanishpieza,Italianpezza,Italianpezzo.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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piece (pluralpieces)

  1. Apart of alargerwhole, usually in such a form that it is able to beseparated from other parts.
    Synonyms:component,part;see alsoThesaurus:piece
    Near-synonyms:aspect,portion
    I’d like anotherpiece of pie.
    I've lost apiece of this jigsaw puzzle.
  2. Asingleitembelonging to aclass ofsimilar items.
    apiece of machinery
    apiece of software
    a usefulpiece of advice
    • 1950,Norman Lindsay,Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page156:
      "Squalled at me that she owned the business and that she wouldn't take any back talk from me and that thepiece wasn't for sale. What could I do?"
    • 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8845:
      [The researchers] noticed many of theirpieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria,[…]
  4. (chess) One of thefigures used inplayingchess,specifically ahigher-valuefigure asdistinguished from apawn;(by extension) those with whichdraughts,backgammon, and other similarboard games are played.
    Synonym:game piece
    • 1959,Hans Kmoch,Pawn Power in Chess, section I:
      Pawns, unlikepieces, move only in one direction: forward.
    • 2022, “2023 Laws of Chess”, inFIDE‎[1], pages4, 21:
      It is not permitted to move apiece to a square occupied by a piece of the same colour.[…] Consequently, in the initial position the whitepieces and pawns are placed on the first and second ranks; the blackpieces and pawns on the eighth and seventh ranks.
  5. Acoin, especially one valued at less than the principalunit ofcurrency.
    a sixpennypiece
  6. Anartisticcreation, such as apainting,sculpture,musicalcomposition,literarywork, etc.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:musical composition
    She played two beautifulpieces on the piano.
  7. Anarticlepublished in thepress.
    Today's paper has an interestingpiece on medical research.
    • 1979, Woody Allen,Manhattan, spoken by Isaac Davis (Woody Allen):
      No, I didn't read thepiece on China's faceless masses, I was, I was checking out the lingerie ads.
  8. (military) Anartillerygun.
    • 1743,Robert Drury,The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar‎[2], London, page55:
      […] all our Ammunition was spent. Those of us who had Money made Slugs of it; their next Shift was to take the middle Screws out of their Guns, and charge theirPieces with them.
  9. (US, colloquial) Agun.
    He's packin' apiece!
    • 2005, “Bloody War”, inCertified, performed by David Banner:
      I wanted peace, but now mypiece is clearing out the block.
    • 2006, Noire[pseudonym],Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.:One World,Ballantine Books,→ISBN,page116:
      It was do or be done. Get or get gotten. It was self-preservation like I'd never felt before, and when Rome passed me hispiece I didn't even hesitate as I raised that bitch in the air and aimed it at Vyreen.
    • 2008–2021,qntm, “We Need To Talk About Fifty-Five”, inThere Is No Antimemetics Division,→ISBN, page 9:
      "This is just a cover story," Clay says to O5-8, not taking his eyes off Marion. "It's a good one, but she's had it worked out in advance."
      "Clay, lose thepiece," says the O5.
      Grudgingly, Clay does so.
  10. (US, Canada, colloquial, short forhairpiece) Atoupee orwig, especially whenworn by aman.
    The announcer is wearing a newpiece.
  11. (Scotland, Ireland, UK, US, dialectal) Aslice or otherquantity ofbread,eaten on its own; asandwich orlightsnack.
    • 2008,James Kelman,Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published2009, page46:
      My grannie came and gived them all apiece and jam and cups of water then I was to bring them back out to the street and play a game.
  12. (US, colloquial, vulgar) Asexualencounter; frompiece of ass orpiece of tail.
    I got apiece at lunchtime.
  13. (US, colloquial, mildly vulgar, short forpiece of crap/piece of shit) Ashoddy orworthlessobject(usually applied to consumer products like vehicles or appliances).
    Ugh, my new computer is such apiece. I'm taking it back to the store tomorrow.
  14. (US, slang) Acannabispipe.
  15. (baseball, uncountable)Used to describe apitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the opposing team or goingfoul. Usually used in the past tense withget.
    he got apiece of that one;  she got apiece of the ball[…]and it's going foul.
  16. (dated, sometimes derogatory) An individual; a person.
  17. (obsolete) A castle; a fortified building.
  19. (US) Apacifier; adummy.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:pacifier
  20. (colloquial) Adistance.
    a farpiece
    located a fairpiece away from their camp
    a fairpiece off
  21. (rowing) A structured practicerow, often used for performance evaluation.
    At practice we rowed four 5,000 meterpieces.
    That lastpiece was torture.
  22. An amount of work to be done at one time; a unit ofpiece work.
  23. (slang) Anounce of arecreational drug.
    • 2017, Matt Meyer, Déqui Kioni-Sadiki, Sekou Odinga,Look for Me in the Whirlwind:
      In fact, that was back during the era when you could buy apiece of heroin, an ounce of heroin, for $500 and cut it three times for a 3-to-1 cut on it and the dope would still be good.

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Translations

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part of a larger whole
single item belonging to a class of similar items
chess: figure other than pawn; similar counter in other games
small coin
artistic creation
article published in the press
artillery gun
slang: gun
hairpiece—seehairpiece
sandwiches, light snack
slang: sexual encounter
shoddy or worthless object
slang: cannabis pipe
baseball: pitch that has been hit but not well
sometimes derogatory: individual, person
castle; a fortified building—seecastle
pacifier—seepacifier
distance—seedistance
rowing: structured practice row
unit of piece work
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See also

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Chess pieces in English ·chess pieces,chessmen (see also:chess)(layout ·text)
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kingqueenrook,castlebishopknightpawn

Verb

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piece (third-person singular simple presentpieces,present participlepiecing,simple past and past participlepieced)

  1. (transitive, usually withtogether) Toassemble (something real orfigurative).
    These clues allowed us topiece together the solution to the mystery.
    • 1655,Thomas Fuller,The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […],→OCLC,(please specify |book=I to XI):
      His adversaries[…]pieced themselves together in a joint opposition against him.
  2. To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often without.
    topiece a garment
  3. (slang) To produce a work ofgraffiti more complex than atag.
    • 1994,William Upski Wimsatt,Bomb the Suburbs, revised second edition, Chicago: The Subway and Elevated Press Company,→ISBN,page 7:
      “It didn't rain, so I decided to comepiece with you.[…]” We never finished that piece.
    • 2009, Gregory J. Snyder,Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York's Urban Underground, page40:
      It is incorrect to say that toys tag and masterspiece; toys just do bad tags, bad throw-ups, and bad pieces.
    • 2009, Scape Martinez,GRAFF: The Art & Technique of Graffiti, page124:
      It is often used to collect other writer's tags, and future plans for bombing andpiecing.
  4. (intransitive, often withon, informal, dated, chiefly North Midland US) To eat small quantities of food between meals; to snack; to take small or intermittent bites at a food item.
    Synonyms:nosh,nibble;see alsoThesaurus:eat
    • 1941,Eudora Welty, “Why I Live at the P.O.”, inA Curtain of Green,page104:
      There he was,piecing on the ham.
    • c.1950, Kansas State Board of Health, Division of Maternal and Child Health Nutrition Service publication,"Proper food before the baby comes"‎[3],State Library of Kansas, page 2:
      Do notpiece between meals.
    • 1956,United States Children's Bureau publication,Your Child from One to Six‎[4],US Government Publishing Office, page46:
      “Piecing” between meals often means eating sweet crackers, candy, or sweet beverages at almost any hour. These taste good but spoil the appetite for more desirable foods. What's eaten between meals should make a real contribution to daily food intake: fruit, or tomato juice, or a small glass of milk, a small peanut butter or cheese sandwich and the like are good choices. And a mid-morning or mid-afternoon pick-up does not interfere with appetite as irregular nibbling orpiecing does.

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Terms derived frompiece (verb)

Translations

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to create or construct by assembling parts

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Etymology

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FromOld Frenchpiece, fromVulgar Latin*pettia, fromGaulish*pettyā, fromProto-Celtic*kʷezdis(“piece, portion”).

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piece f (pluralpieces)

  1. piece,bit,part
  2. moment (duration of time)
    • 1488, Jean Dupré,Lancelot du Lac, page75:
      Grantpiece dura celle meslee
      The battle lasted a longtime

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  • French:pièce (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman:pièche(Jersey)

References

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  • piece onDictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Old French

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FromLate Latinpettia, fromGaulish*pettyā, fromProto-Celtic*kʷezdis(“piece, portion”).

Noun

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pieceoblique singular, f (oblique pluralpieces,nominative singularpiece,nominative pluralpieces)

  1. piece,bit,part

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Noun

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piece m inan

  1. nominative/accusative/vocativeplural ofpiec
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