- piece - a separate part of a whole; "an important piece of the evidence"
--1 is a kind of part, portion
--1 has particulars:piece of cloth, piece of material; piece of leather; scrap; shard, sherd, fragment; snip, snippet, snipping Derived forms: verb piece5, verb piece2, verb piece1 - piece - an item that is an instance of some type; "he designed a new piece of equipment"; "she bought a lovely piece of china";
--2 is a kind of item
- part, piece - a portion of a natural object; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite"
--3 is a kind of thing
--3 is a part of unit, building block
--3 has particulars:body part; corpus; acicula; base; corner; craton; cutting; fragment; hunk, lump; nub, stub; segment; slice; strip; world - musical composition, opus, composition, piece, piece of music - a musical work that has been created; "the composition is written in four movements"
--4 is a kind of music
--4 has parts: finale, coda
--4 has particulars:- piece, bit - an instance of some kind; "it was a nice piece of work"; "he had a bit of good luck"
--5 is a kind of case, instance, example
- piece - an artistic or literary composition; "he wrote an interesting piece on Iran"; "the children acted out a comic piece to amuse the guests"
--6 is a kind of creation
--6 has particulars: article; morceau; afterpiece; fragment; hiatus- firearm, piece, small-arm - a portable gun; "he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster"
--7 is a kind of gun
--7 has parts: firing pin; lock; sight
--7 has particulars:autoloader, self-loader; machine gun; muzzle loader; pistol, handgun, side arm, shooting iron; repeating firearm, repeater; rifle; riot gun; shotgun, scattergun; twenty-two, .22 - piece, slice - a serving that has been cut from a larger portion; "a piece of pie"; "a slice of bread"
--8 is a kind of helping, portion, serving
--8 has particulars:cutlet, scallop, scollop, escallop; fillet, filet, fish fillet, fish filet Derived form: verb piece4 - piece - a distance; "it is down the road a piece"
--9 is a kind of distance
- objet d'art, art object, piece - a work of art of some artistic value; "this store sells only objets d'art"; "it is not known who created this piece"
--10 is a kind of work of art
--10 has particulars: virtu- while, piece, spell, patch - a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition; "he was here for a little while"; "I need to rest for a piece"; "a spell of good weather"; "a patch of bad weather"
--11 is a kind of time
--11 has particulars: cold spell, cold snap; hot spell; snap- slice, piece - a share of something; "a slice of the company's revenue"
--12 is a kind of share, portion, part, percentage
- man, piece - game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games; "he taught me to set up the men on the chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage"
--13 is a kind of game equipment
--13 has particulars: black; checker; chessman, chess piece; white - part, piece - a portion of a natural object; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite"
- patch, piece - to join or unite the pieces of; "patch the skirt"
--1 is one way to join, conjoin
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun piece1
They piece the cape
- assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together - make by putting pieces together; "She pieced a quilt"; "He tacked together some verses"
--2 is a kind of join, bring together; make, create
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun piece1
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- piece - join during spinning; "piece the broken pieces of thread, slivers, and rovings"
--3 is one way to splice
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- nibble, pick, piece - eat intermittently; take small bites of; "He pieced at the sandwich all morning"; "She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles"
--4 is one way to eat
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun piece8
Somebody ----s something
- piece, patch - repair by adding pieces; "She pieced the china cup"
--5 is one way to repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun piece1
Somebody ----s something
- nibble, pick, piece - eat intermittently; take small bites of; "He pieced at the sandwich all morning"; "She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles"