Piece Of Work

Definition: Piece Of Work

Piece Of Work

Noun

1. A product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing: "it is not regarded as one of his more memorable works"; "the symphony was hailed as an ingenious work"; "he was indebted to the pioneering work of John Dewey"; "the work of an active imagination"; "erosion is the work of wind or water over time".

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Metallurgy

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Synonym: Piece Of Work

Discontent

Take in bad part, take ill; fret, chafe, make a piece of work; grumble, croak; lament.

Discord

Broil, brawl, row, racket, hubbub, rixation; embroilment, embranglement, imbroglio, fracas, breach of the peace, piece of work, scrimmage, rumpus; breeze, squall; riot, disturbance; (disorder); commotion; (agitation); bear garden, Donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair.

Disorder

Turmoil; ferment; (agitation); to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business.

Importance

Make a fuss about, make a fuss over, make a stir about, make a piece of work about, make much ado about; make much ado of,make much of.

Crosswords: Piece Of Work

Ooh that boy's a fine piece of work all right. (Billy Madison; writing credit: Tim Herlihy; Adam Sandler)

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Books

• A Nasty Piece of Work and Other Ghost Stories (reference)

• A Piece of Work (reference)

• What a Piece of Work Is Man!: Camp's Unfamiliar Quotations from 2000 B.C. to the Present (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Nasty Piece of Work (reference)

• Piece of Work (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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As he owned nothing, he never locked his door, except sometimes, and that very rarely, when he was about some pressing piece of work.

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Expressions using "piece of work": nifty piece of work ♦ pretty piece of work ♦ shoddy piece of work. Additional references.

Danish

emne (subject, theme, topic), arbejdsstykke (job, piece, unit, work, work piece, workpiece, work-piece). (various references)

Dutch

werkstuk (job, piece, unit, work, work piece, workpiece, work-piece). (various references)

Finnish

työkappale (job, piece, unit, work, work piece, workpiece, work-piece), kappale (bit, body, copy, object, paragraph, piece, play, section). (various references)

French

pièce usinée (piece, work piece), pièce travaillée (piece, work piece), pièce de fabrication (piece, work piece), pièce � usiner (piece, work piece), pièce � travailler (piece, work piece), pièce � exécuter (piece, work piece), pièce (piece). (various references)

German

Werkstück (work piece, workpiece), Stück (baggage, bar, bit, cake, cob, fragment, head, hunk, item, length, lump, part, passage, peace, piece, play, plot, portion, segment, share, shtick, slice, slips, snatch, snip, stick, stretch, track, wedge), arbeit (assigned job, chore, employment, job, labor, labour, paper, pile, project, script, stint, task, test, work, working). (various references)

Greek 

προς κατεργασία κομμάτι (job, piece, unit, work, work piece, workpiece, work-piece), υλικό κομμάτι το οποίο πρόκειται να υποβληθεί ή υποβάλλεται σε μία διαδικασία κατεργασίας (piece, unit, work, work piece, workpiece, work-piece). (various references)

Hungarian

sebtében végez el munkát (to huddle over a piece of work, to huddle through a piece of work), hevenyészve összeüt (to huddle over a piece of work, to huddle through a piece of work, to improvise), felületesen végez el munkát (to huddle over a piece of work, to huddle through a piece of work). (various references)

Italian

pezzo da lavorare (job, piece, unit, work, work piece, workpiece, work-piece). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

佳作　 (good piece of work), 佳作 (good piece of work). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かさく (a fiction, good piece of work, house for rent, low production, making house). (various references)

Manx

shayll (bout of work, innings, rotating, share, spell, stint, trick, turn). (various references)

Pig Latin

iecepay ofay orkway

Portuguese

peça trabalhada (job, piece, unit, work, work piece, workpiece, work-piece), peça para trabalhar (job, piece, unit, work, work piece, workpiece, work-piece), peça de fabrico (job, piece, unit, work, work piece, workpiece, work-piece), peça (article, ask, borrow, pad, practical joke, request). (various references)

Romanian

lucrare (achievement, deed, realization, study, work, working, writing). (various references)

Spanish

pieza de trabajo (job, piece, unit, work, work piece, workpiece, work-piece). (various references)

Swedish

arbetsstycke (blank, job, piece, unit, work, work piece, workpiece, work-piece). (various references)

Turkish

iş (activity, affair, appointment, assignment, ball game, billet, biz, business, calling, cause, commerce, concern, dealing, deed, doing, doings, employment, ergo-, function, gig, handiwork, job, metier, mission, occupation, occupational, operation, piece, place, ploy, post, profession, pursuit, racket, regulation, shop, show, spindle, stint, task, things to do, trade, work, working, workings, works), görev (appointment, assignment, billet, business, charge, commission, devoir, duty, employment, function, incumbency, job, mission, office, part, position, service, situation, stint, task, work, workings). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: piecework, workpiece.

-4 letters: cowpoke, peckier, pickeer, pockier, precook.

-5 letters: cooker, cookie, cooper, copier, cowier, cowpie, cowrie, fierce, pecker, picker, piecer, pierce, pokier, recipe, recook, rewoke, rookie, wicker, woofer.