Piece

Definition: Piece

Piece

Noun

1. A separate part of a whole: "an important piece of the evidence".

2. An item that is an instance of some type; "he designed a new piece of equipment" or "she bought a lovely piece of china".

3. A portion of a natural object; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite".

4. A musical work that has been created; "the composition is written in four movements".

5. An instance of some kind; "it was a nice piece of work"; "he had a bit of good luck".

6. An artistic or literary composition; "he wrote an interesting piece on Iran"; "the children acted out a comic piece to amuse the guests".

7. A portable gun; "he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster".

8. A serving that has been cut from a larger portion; "a piece of pie"; "a slice of bread".

9. A distance; "it is down the road a piece".

10. : an object created by a sculptor; "it was not known who created the piece".

11. : 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".

12. : a share of something; "a slice of the company's revenue".

13. : 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".

Verb

1. To join or unite the pieces of; "patch the skirt".

2. Make by putting pieces together; "She pieced a quilt".

3. Join during spinning, as of broken pieces of thread, slivers, or rovings.

4. Eat intermittently; take small bites of; "He pieced at the sandwich all morning"; "She never eats a full meal--she just picks at the food".

5. Repair by adding pieces; "She pieced the china cup".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "piece" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Piece \Piece\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Pieced; Piecing.]. (references)

Mechanical Engineering

Metallurgy

Multilingual Slang

Slang

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Piece

Adjunct

Rider, offshoot, episode, side issue, corollary; piece; flap, lappet, skirt, embroidery, trappings, cortege; tail, suffix; (sequel); wing.

Arms

Gun, piece; firearms; artillery, ordnance; siege train, battering train; park, battery; cannon, gun of position, heavy gun, field piece, mortar, howitzer, carronade, culverin, basilisk; falconet, jingal, swivel, pederero, bouche a feu; petard, torpedo; mitrailleur, mitrailleuse; infernal machine; smooth bore, rifled cannon, Armstrong gun, Lancaster gun, Paixhan gun, Whitworth gun, Parrott gun, Krupp gun, Gatling gun, Maxim gun, machine gun; pompom; ten pounder.

Libertine

Adulteress, advoutress, courtesan, prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie; woman, woman of the town; streetwalker, Cyprian, miss, piece; frail sisterhood; demirep, wench, trollop, trull, baggage, hussy, drab, bitch, jade, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, minx, harridan; unfortunate, unfortunate female, unfortunate woman; woman of easy virtue; (unchaste); wanton, fornicatress; Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah, Thais, Phryne, Aspasia, Lais, lorette, cocotte, petite dame, grisette; demimonde; chippy; sapphist; spiritual wife; white slave.

Money

Currency, circulating medium, specie, coin, piece, hard cash, cold cash; dollar, sterling coin; pounds shillings and pence; Ls.d.; pocket, breeches pocket, purse; money in hand, cash at hand; ready money, ready cash; slug, wad wad of bills, wad of money, thick wad of bills, roll of dough; rhino, blunt, dust, mopus, tin, salt, chink; argent comptant; bottom dollar, buzzard dollar; checks, dibs.

Painting

Picture, painting, piece, tableau, canvas; oil painting; fresco, cartoon; easel picture, cabinet picture, draught, draft; pencil; drawing, water color drawing, etching, charcoal, pen-and-ink; sketch, outline, study.

The Drama

Play, drama, stage play, piece, five-act play, tragedy, comedy, opera, vaudeville, comedietta, lever de rideau, interlude, afterpiece, exode, farce, divertissement, extravaganza, burletta, harlequinade, pantomime, burlesque, opera bouffe, ballet, spectacle, masque, drame comedie drame; melodrama, melodrame; comidie larmoyante, sensation drama; tragicomedy, farcical-comedy; monodrame monologue;duologue trilogy; charade, proverbs; mystery, miracle play; musical, musical comedy.

Crosswords: Piece

You're not going to save the world, Okay you're delusional. You've made this all up out of bits and piece in you're head (Twelve Monkeys; writing credit: David Webb Peoples)

Nice big golden chips with a piece of fried fish (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

And if we don't get a piece of that action, we risk everything we have (The Godfather; writing credit: Francis Coppola and Mario Puzo. Based on the novel by Mario Puzo.)

Piece of advice: Lose the smile, it makes you look like a schmuck (Swimming With Sharks; writing credit: George Huang)

You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

YOU MAKE IT BACK IN ONE PIECE,PIECE,PIECE (Come Back In One Piece; performing artist: Aaliyah)

I'VE HAD TO DIG AWAY, TO FIND MY OWN PIECE OF MIND (Never Ever; performing artist: All Saints)

For you to find peace your piece of mind (It Don't Matter To Me; performing artist: Bread)

Just my thoughts about you bring back my piece of mind (My Maria; performing artist: BROOKS & DUNN)

He's gonna find me some piece of mind (MOCKINGBIRD; performing artist: Carly Simon)

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. (references; author: unknown)

Compromise: The art of dividing a cake so that everybody believes he or she got the biggest piece. (references; author: unknown)

Ever wonder about those people who spend $2.00 a piece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backwards. (references; author: unknown)

Of all the felt I ever felt, I never felt a piece of felt which felt as fine as that felt felt, when first I felt that felt hat's felt. (references; author: unknown)

A Piece of the Block (1972)

Time Piece (1971)

A Piece of Her Action (1968)

Time Piece (1965)

A Piece of Cake (1946)

Piece Of My Heart (performing artist: Tara Kemp)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2000-2005 Outlook for Wholesale Apparel, Piece Goods, and Notions in Asia (reference)

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Books

• Paper Piece a Flower Garden: Blocks and Projects to Mix and Match (reference)

• The Conversation Piece 2: A New Generation of Questions (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Time Piece (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 25, Episodes 49 & 50; A Piece of the Action/ By Any Other Name (reference)

• A Piece of the Action (reference)

• Star Trek - The Original Series, Episode 49: A Piece of the Action (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Piece of Mind [Limited Edition] [ENHANCED] (reference)

• Piece of Your Soul (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Tasco 900 Power Microscope with Case and 67 Piece Kit (reference)

• One Piece Mansion (reference)

• PSOne 6 Piece Action Pack (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Libbey Hoops 16 Piece Beverage Set (reference)

• 4 Piece Set: Lavender Posie, 0 - 6 months (reference)

• Black & Decker FSC414K-2 Firestorm 14.4-Volt, 4-Tool Kit--plus Free 100 Piece Power Drill Bit Set, a $19.99 Value (reference)

• Baby Boom 9 Piece Finger Puppet Bath Gift Set (reference)

• Thomas the Tank Engine Full Steam Ahead 5 piece Bedding Set (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

(1) color slide shows a cooked piece of steak on a plate. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).

(3) color slides show a single piece of raw corn with husk stripped away to see the yellow corn. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).

The unexpectedly varied surface of a wayward piece of space debris has given astronomers new ... Credit: NASA.

"A small piece of ice on the shoreline". Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Kayaks on the beach at Chincoteague with a wonderful piece of driftwood. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Bogoslof Island, a chronic piece of land that comes and goes with various eruptions. Presently above the water surface and a home for marine mammals and birds. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Sorting salmon for genetic research. An eye, heart, liver, and piece of flesh was taken and preserved from each specimen. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

The marsh buggy in the background is a specialized piece of equipment used to move the dredge pipe and other equipment around. The buggy is also used to grade deposited sediments to appropriate elevations. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A piece of specialized equipment called a marsh buggy. The buggy was used to bring sediments to the newly created marsh. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

In: "The Meteor Expedition," by F. Spiess, German Atlantic Expedition 1925-1927. Professor Hentschel posing with a large piece of kelp. Plate 46. Library Call Number C/La S755. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Again, if he would give his nuts for a piece of metal, pleased with its colour; or exchange his sheep for shells, or wool for a sparkling pebble or a diamond, and keep those by him all his life he invaded not the right of others, he might heap up as much of these durable things as he pleased; the exceeding of the bounds of his just property not lying in the largeness of his possession, but the perishing of any thing uselesly in it. (Second Treatise of Government)

On the expiration of a period of two months from the coming into force of the present Treaty the stocks of ammunition for these guns shall be reduced to and maintained at a maximum figure of fifteen hundred rounds per piece for calibres of 4.1-inch and under, and five hundred rounds per piece for higher calibres. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

This has been a most agreeable piece of news indeed

Alice took a piece to taste, but it was very dry.

The woman was arrested for passing the first piece that he had made

Dante gave him a cachou every time he brought her a piece of tissue paper

He paused to gnaw off a piece of plug

Their linen is usually three inches wide, and three feet make a piece.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The vas is cut, and a small piece may be removed. (references)

The doctor can examine a small piece of tissue under an electron microscope. (references)

The physician will send that piece of tissue (biopsy) to the lab for testing. (references)

Business

The average irrigated area per piece of equipment was about 75 hectares. (references)

The CNC machine tool is the single key piece of equipment for the vast manufacturing industry. (references)

Set-top box access provide yet another piece in the puzzle of bringing the Internet to the Chinese masses. (references)

Civil Liberties

Moldova

There were peaceful demonstrations in Chisinau against the Communist Party victory, the enhanced protection of Russian language usage, and a border agreement between the country and Ukraine that ceded a small piece of territory. (references)

Iran

In what seemed to be a hopeful sign, the Government this year offered the Tehran community a piece of land for use as a cemetery. (references)

Zimbabwe

You ain't seen nothing yet." In addition the government controlled The Herald printed an opinion piece by Minister Moyo shortly before the bombing in which he described The Daily News as a threat to the country. (references)

Economic History

Slovak Rep

The Slovak government said in June that it would sell the stake as one piece to a strategic investor or a consortium through an international tender, consistent with the advice of adviser Credit Suisse First Boston. (references)

Australia

During 2001, the Australian Government was the continued subject of complaints to the ILO applications committee by the ICTFU and the local union body, the ACTU, about the Government's key piece of industrial legislation, the Workplace Relations Act of 1996. The committee has called on the Government to amend the Act to remove elements which it says violate ILO conventions on the right to collectively bargain and to organize labor. (references)

Cyprus

In most cases, non-residents (whether EU or non-EU origin) are restricted to buying no more than a single piece of real estate for private use (normally a holiday home). (references)

Human Rights

South Africa

The various forms of compensation offered to claimants are the return of the original land, a deed to another piece of land, financial remuneration, or preferential access to government housing. (references)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

In January inmates stabbed Superintendent Latchman with a sharpened piece of half-inch steel, which punctured his intestines. (references)

Cameroon

According to the Sub-Prefect, the house was demolished because its construction violated a 1999 injunction order and was built on a disputed piece of land. (references)

Political Economy

MALAYSIA

This is an inefficient and expensive process that requires distributors to recut each piece of glass into a rectangular shape once it has cleared customs. (references)

Costa Rica

Multiple claims to a single piece of land have created problems for numerous U.S. citizen investors. (references)

Trade

Honduras

This law replaced archaic financial legislation dating back to the early 1950's. The banking law is a modern piece of legislation modeled on the Chilean banking law and recent financial sector reforms adopted in Ecuador and Colombia. (references)

Travel

Mexico

If necessary, write any PIN numbers on a piece of paper and carry it with you separate from your wallet. (references)

Ireland

Porters and bellhops receive 50 pence per piece of luggage. (references)

Worker Rights

Philippines

Working at a piece rate in the unloading of bulk cargo they are exposed to harmful dust and chemicals in the ships' holds. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Thy broken piece

Expressions using "piece": a fine piece of work! ♦ a museum piece ♦ a nice piece of handiwork ♦ a piece ♦ a piece of ♦ a piece of advice ♦ a piece of cake ♦ a piece of evidence ♦ a piece of furniture ♦ a piece of good news ♦ a piece of information ♦ a piece of land ♦ a piece of luck ♦ A piece of money ♦ a piece of news ♦ a piece of virtu ♦ a sixpenny piece ♦ a thin piece ♦ all of a piece ♦ altar piece ♦ announce a piece of news ♦ as a piece of cake ♦ battle piece ♦ be all of a piece with ♦ be paid by the piece ♦ Birding piece ♦ bolster piece ♦ Bonnet piece ♦ Bow piece ♦ broken piece ♦ by the piece ♦ cast in one piece ♦ ceiling piece ♦ charge two pounds a piece ♦ chess piece ♦ chimney piece ♦ Concerted piece ♦ confirm a piece of news ♦ connecting piece ♦ conversation piece ♦ corbel piece ♦ costume piece ♦ Crown piece ♦ curve piece ♦ Discharging piece ♦ distance piece ♦ dramatical piece ♦ ear piece ♦ Easel piece ♦ ended piece ♦ eye piece ♦ Fashion piece ♦ field piece ♦ flat piece ♦ Flower piece ♦ Fore piece ♦ fowling piece ♦ give a piece of advice ♦ give a piece of one's mind ♦ give smb. a piece of one's mind ♦ H piece ♦ hair piece ♦ Hawse piece ♦ History piece ♦ in a single piece ♦ in one piece ♦ in piece ♦ it's a piece of cake ♦ Keel piece ♦ knee piece ♦ Lace piece ♦ mailing piece ♦ mantel piece ♦ masking piece ♦ Merrick multiple piece rate plan ♦ missing piece ♦ modesty piece ♦ mortar piece ♦ mouse piece ♦ move a piece of furniture ♦ murdering piece ♦ museum piece ♦ nifty piece of work ♦ night piece ♦ nose piece ♦ of a piece ♦ of a piece with ♦ one piece ♦ ornamental piece ♦ packing piece ♦ party piece ♦ pay for piece work ♦ period piece ♦ piece accents ♦ piece broker ♦ piece by piece ♦ piece de resistance ♦ piece down ♦ piece envoy ♦ piece goods ♦ piece in. Additional references.

Beginning with "piece": piece-box, piece-by-piece, piece-dye, piece-dyed, piece-goods, piece-meal, piece-part, piece-parts, piece-rate, piece-rates, piece-size, piece-time, piece-turned-stuck-up-councillor's, piece-wages, piece-walker, piece-work, piece-workers.

Ending with "piece": cross-piece, ear-piece, eight-piece, five-piece, four-piece, one-piece, party-piece, set-piece, seven-piece, show-piece, six-piece, test-piece, three-piece, time-piece, two-piece.

Containing "piece": nasty-piece-of-work, one-piece bathing-suit, three-piece suit, three-piece suite, three-piece-suite, two-piece dress, two-piece suit, two-piece swimming suit.

Afrikaans

stuk (bit, fragment, lump, part, Parthian, share, spare part), gedeelte (part, Parthian, share), deel (part, Parthian, share), aandeel (part, Parthian, share). (various references)

Albanian

pjesë (allotment, block, Cantel, Cantle, component, contingent, deal, divvy, helping, interest, kit, leg, length, limb, line, lot, part, partition, patch, portion, proportion, quantum, quota, quotient, rate, scrap, section, segment, share, slice, snack, span), person (beggar, body, case, chap, contact, dude, fella, fellow, fish, flesh and blood, guy, hand, individual, party, person, persona, personage, subject), ndreq (adjust, arrange, change, clear, correct, dispose, dress, fix up, make amends, mend, rectify, redress, refit, reform, reinstate, remake, remedy, repair, revise, spruce up, Square, straighten, tidy up, touch up, tune up), copë (chunk, excerpt, fraction, fragment, fritter, hunk, knob, loaf, lump, mammock, morsel, nub, partition, rag, scrap, scrap metal, section, segment, shiver, shred, sliver, snip, snippet, splint, tatter), element (cell, component, consideration, detail, element, factor, member, unit), femër (dam, distaff, doe, female, fertile, hen, Jenny, jilt, Judy, lady, mate, pistil, woman), figurë (character, figure, figure of speech, illustration, image, personage, personality, step), fragment (excerpt, extract, fragment, passage), gjë (article, baby, item, job, line, object, thing), gur (boulder, calculus, cobble, rock, stone), bashkoj (add together, ally, amalgamate, band together, close up, combine, compound, conglomerate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, consolidate, couple, fuse, fuze, glue, hook up, inosculate, integrate, interlock, join, joint, knit, link, merge, piece together, pool, solder, splice, unify, unite, weld), monedhë (chip, coin, coinage, currency, currency unit, mag, shekel, shilling, small coin), vetë (by oneself, herself, himself, in person, itself, mouth, myself, oneself, ourselves, person, personally, themselves, thyself, yourself), rast (case, chance, circumstance, event, handle, happening, instance, matter, occasion, place, possibility, scope), riformoj, send (article, item, object, thing), shembull (case, example, exemplar, exponent, instance, lead, mirror, model, number, paradigm, rule, sample), top (ball, bolt, cannon, falconet, field gun, gun, knob, nub, nubble, nugget, soundly), vepër (act, action, baby, composition, creation, deed, doing, work), llokmë (chunk, morsel). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فترة قصيرة (awhile, little), ‏نموذج (byword, copy, example, exemplar, instance, layout, mock up, model, norm, paradigm, pattern, run, sample, specimen, standard, token, type), ‏قطعة ارض, ‏قطعة أرض (area, land, lot, parcel, piece of land, plot, shred, spit, tract), ‏قطعة (bit, chunk, cut, division, fraction, fragment, part, portion, section, segment, share, slice), ‏سلاح ناري (firearm, gun), ‏عينة (pattern, sample, snip, specimen, specious, swab, taking), ‏ضم (add, adjoin, annexation, apposition, close, combine, conjoin, conjunction, join, piece together, subtend, take in), ‏جمع الأشياء (piece together), ‏جزء (bit, fraction, parcel, part, partition, portion, pt., section, share, slice), ‏إنكسر (fall to pieces, snap), ‏أصلح (amend, fix, mend, overhaul, pacify, reclaim, recondition, rectify, redeem, redress, refit, reform, rehabilitate, renovate, repair, retrieve, rig, right, see, set right), ‏رقع (botch, cobble, patch, repair, sew), ‏بيدق شطرنج. (various references)

Basque

klarioi (piece of chalk), albiste (piece of news). (various references)

Breton

pezh. (various references)

Bulgarian 

пушка (gun, rifle), монета (coin, money), момиче (bint, gal, girl, lass, muslin, number, pigeon, wench), закърпвам (darn, mend, patch, piece up, revamp, stitch up, vamp), жена при полово сношение, жена (female, frail, gin, heifer, hen, lady, lay, muslin, petticoat, placket, rib, skirt, woman), детайл (detail, job), бройка (make-weight, pip), отделен предмет, пул (chip, counter, stone), проява (avatar, display, exhibition, manifestation, performance, procedure, proceeding, show), пример (calendar, case, example, exemplar, illustration, instance, lead, model, paradigm, pattern, sample, type), полово сношение (copulation, embrace, lay, screw), парче (bar, bit, cake, catch, cob, cut, cutting, dollop, fragment, lump, patch, portion, scrap, section, slice, slip, slipping, snatch, splint, splinter), пиеса (play, stage play), литературно произведение (production), оръдие (cannon, creature, gun, implement, instrument, pander, tool), съединявам (aggregate, band, butt, clutch, compound, concatenate, conjoin, couple, impale, incorporate, inosculate, interlock, join, join up, knee, knit, link, marry, mate, piece together, rejoin, splice, tag, tie, tie in, unite), снаждам (add on, piece on), човек (being, bloke, bod, body, fellow, figure, guy, head, homo, human, human being, individual, Jack, Johnny, joker, liver, Mac, man, person, subject, thing, type, Wight, you), част (concern, detachment, division, fraction, interest, lap, leg, member, movement, outfit, parcel, part, partition, portion, proportion, quantum, quota, rate, section, segment, share, slice, snack, unit), фигура (effigy, face card, figure, form, man, person, physique, tracery), топ (bundle, cannon, gun, masthead, pack, roll, rook), музикално произведение, картина (image, painting, picture, scene), образец (copy, epitome, example, exemplar, form, ideal, mirror, model, mould, norm, paradigm, paragon, pattern, sample, sampling, scantling, shape, specimen, swatch, type), отрязък (clipping, cutting, intercept, section, snippet), отрезка (snip), отрез (segment), откъслек (excerpt, excerption, fragment), отломка (fragment, splinter), съшивам (put together, seam, sew together, sew up), къс (brief, cob, fraction, fragment, fritter, jimp, length, little, morsel, patch, portion, scrimpy, short, skimpy, slip, slipping). (various references)

Catalan

tela (bit, lump). (various references)

Chinese 

部份 (part, section, share, shell), 部分 (part, section, share), 片断 (Pieces), 片 (a slice, disc, flake, sheet, slice, thin), 一片 (slice), 一塊 , 塊 (chunk, fast, happy, joyful, lump, mound, quick, rapid, soon, swift, yuan). (various references)

Czech

kus (chunk, dish, head, item, junk, lump, part, stretch), kousek (bit, cut, inchmeal, jot, mammock, nibble, parcel, part, patch, scrap, shred, wedge, whit). (various references)

Danish

stykke (bit, lump, spare part), del (part, share), brudstykke (fragment, lump), brud (bride, fiancée, fragment, lump). (various references)

Dutch

stuk (act, article, beautiful woman, beauty, brick, broken, certificate, damaged, diploma, document, fragment, lump, out of order, paper, part, Parthian, piece of music, play, share, theatre play), fragment (fragment, lump), brok (bit, fragment, lump). (various references)

Esperanto

peco (bit, lump), fragmento (fragment, lump). (various references)

Faeroese

petti (bit, lump), partur (chapter, part, Parthian, share, volume), stubbi (bit, lump), moli (bit, lump), lutur (article, commodity, object, part, Parthian, rôle, share, thing), brot (fraction, fragment, lump). (various references)

Farsi 

قطعه ادبی یاموسیقی , اسلحه تکه , جورشدن (Mesh), عدد (Digit, Figure, Head, Number, Tot), سکه (Coin, Money, Poke, Shiner), ترکیب کردن (Agglutinate, Concoct, Constitute, Incorporate, Merge, Synthesize, Unite), وصله کردن (Clobber, Clout, Patch, Vamp), بخش (Borough, Branch, Canton, Commune, County, Department, District, Division, Installment, Item, Leg, Lot, Member, Parcel, Parish, Part, Party, Portion, Precinct, Quarter, Role, Sect, Section, Sector, Segment, Share, Zone), قطعه (Bloc, Block, Dab, Fragment, Goblet, Internode, Lot, Mainland, Nugget, Pane, Panel, Passage, Plank, Plat, Plot, Section, Segment, Slab, Smidgen, Snip, Tract), فقره (Entry, Episode, Item, Paragraph, Vertebra, Vertebrate), قسمت (Arm, Canto, Chapter, Compartment, Department, Detachment, Division, Dole, Flat, Grist, Internode, Leg, Lot, Parcel, Party, Percentage, Plank, Portion, Proportion, Rasher, Ratio, Sect, Section, Segment, Share, Slice), کمی (Bittock, Deficiency, Infrequency, Insignificance, Insufficience, Insufficiency, Paucity, Peep, Quantitative, Rarity), نمایشنامه گرم , نمونه (Example, Instance, Model, Module, Parable, Paradigm, Progenitor, Sample, Specimen), پارچه (Cloth, Fabric, Lot, Stuff, Textile), یک تکه کردن , قدری (Some, Something, Somewhat). (various references)

Finnish

pala (bit, cut chunk, lump, tablet), kappale (bit, body, copy, object, paragraph, play, section). (various references)

French

pièce (piece of a machine, piece of work, work piece), part, morceau, fragment, partie, contingent. (various references)

Frisian

oandiel (part, Parthian, share), diel (part, Parthian, share). (various references)

German

Stück (baggage, bar, bit, cake, cob, fragment, head, hunk, item, length, lump, part, passage, peace, play, plot, portion, segment, share, shtick, slice, slips, snatch, snip, stick, stretch, track, wedge), Teil (appanage, area, bit, chapter, component, deal, district, part, Parthian, partial, particle, partition, parts, party, portion, proportion, scrap, section, segment, share, slice, spare, spare part, stint, stretch, tract, unit), Bruchstück (catch, fractionary, fragment, lump, snatch). (various references)

Greek 

κομμάτι (bit, dollop, gobbet, item, sheet, snipping). (various references)

Hebrew 

חתיכה (attractive girl, cut, morsel, part, slice). (various references)

Hungarian

darab (bit, Cantle, head, parcel, portion, slab, slice, slug, snip), zenedarab, tekercs (coil, convolution, furl, reel, roll, spool), színdarab (costume piece, costume play, drama, play), ritka példány, rész (chapter and verse, detail, division, element, eminence, parcel, part, passage, peak, place, portion, prime cut, salience, segment, share, side, snack, south), pénzdarab (bit, chip, coin, money, tally), munkadarab, műtárgy, kompozíció (composition), alkatrész (component, detail, fixture, loose part, part, piece part, refill, slide), árucikk (article, commodity, goods, line, line of goods). (various references)

Indonesian

penggal (fragment, lump), kepingan, keping, cabik (ripped, strip, torn), bungkalan. (various references)

Irish

píosa. (various references)

Italian

pezzo (bit, chunk, gobbets, hunk, length, lump, part, play, portion, ration, scrap, section, slab, slice, smack, smacker, snap, snatch, stump), porzione (allotment, helping, moiety, part, Parthian, portion, serving, share), parte (direction, faction, it leaves, leaves, moiety, part, Parthian, portion, quarter, rake off, rate, role, section, segment, share, side, whack), pezza (cloth, diaper, patch, rag, roll, spot). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

端くれ (fag end), ビル風 (binding, bingo, eddies of wind around high buildings, foot fastening, green pepper, pea coat, pea jacket, peace, peach, peacock, peahen, peak, peanut, peanut butter, peanuts, peas, peek, peep show, Peeping Tom, people, people's capitalism, Peter Pan syndrome, Piaget, pianica, pianist, piano, piano and harmonica, piazza, piecework, piercer, pimento, PR, public relations, Russian food, velvet, village, vintage, vintage year), 呉服物 (dry goods, piece goods), 一編 , 一篇 , 切れ (chop, cloth, counter for such, cut, scrap, slice, strip). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ピース (peace, peas), きれ (chop, cloth, counter for such, cut, scrap, slice, strip), いっぺん (a piece, a side, a slice, about-face, complete change, once), ごふくもの (dry goods, piece goods), はしくれ (fag end). (various references)

Korean 

조각 (fraction, Pieces, Sculpturing, shred, slice). (various references)

Manx

ribbag (coupon, dulse leaf, fragment of cloth, scrap, shred), peeshal (vamp), peeshaghey (construe), peesh (bit, cutting, length, length of thread, patch), meeraghey (phrase, piece together, put together), meer (bait, bit, bite, bite of food, coin, element, extract, fleck of dust, item, number, par, part, passage, patch, portion, scrap, section, segment), greim (bit, bite, catch, clutch, commissure, gobbet, grab, grasp, grip, handhold, hold, monopolize, morsel, snap, snatch, tack, tack needlework). (various references)

Norwegian

del (part, share). (various references)

Occitan

nòva (piece of news), greda (piece of chalk). (various references)

Papiamen

parti (part, share). (various references)

Pig Latin

iecepay.(various references)

Polish

część (part, Parthian, share). (various references)

Portuguese

parte (deal, it leaves, leaves, lot, parcel, Parthian, portion, quantum, quota, role, section, share, snack, suitor), pedaço (bit, cantle, casting, chop, chunk, fragment, fritter, lump, morsel, plat, rag, shred, slice, spall), peça de tecido (breadth), peça (article, ask, borrow, pad, practical joke, request), fragmento (cantle, catch, crumb, end, fraction, fragmemt, fritter, lump, part, patch, scrap, shatter, shiver, snatch, snippet, splinter, tear), bocado (bit, bite, cantle, chip, dollop, fragment, gob, gobbet, lump, morsel, mouthful, portion, scrap, shiver, slice, smack, snatch, snip, sprinkle). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

pedaço. (various references)

Romanian

parte (aspect, corner, district, flank, fragment, hand, joint, lot, movement, neighborhood, neighbourhood, part, Parthian, partition, party, passus, proportion, region, sect, section, segment, share, side, snack, whack, zone). (various references)

Russian 

часть;кусок, часть (bailiwick, Cantle, division, fraction, limb, member, moiety, part, parts, portion, quota, quotum, segment, share, slice), штука (doodah), кусок (bit, cake, cake of, chunk, dollop, length, lump, mouthful, nugget, quid, scrap, slab, snippet), картина (image, night-piece, painting, paintings, picture, scene, skyscape, tableu), отдельный предмет, образец (archetype, copy, example, exemplar, exponent, form, model, norm, paradigm, paragon, pattern, prill, quick example, representative, sample, scantling, shape, specimen, standard), бочонок вина, пьеса (play), деталь (detail, fine point, member, particular). (various references)

Scottish

pìos (a cup, a piece, bit, lump), crioman (bit), criomag (bit), cearb (rag, tatter). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

puška (gun, rifle, shotgun), parče (chip, patch, shiver, shred, slice, slip, strip), zakrpiti (mend, patch, vamp), top (cannon, gun, rook, tower), spojiti (aggregate, bring together, combine, connect, couple, fuse, hook up, join, joint, knit, link, lump, merge, pair, piece together, pin together, ply, rabbet, slur, splice, tap), sastaviti (assemble, compile, compose, compound, indite, join, put together, scribe, seam, sew together), odgrizak (bite), krpiti (darn, tinker), komad (chunk, play, shred, slip, snippet), figura (figure, shape), delo (act, action, deed, fact, labor, labour, opus), ženska (bit: a bit of skirt). (various references)

Slovene

list (paper, piece of paper). (various references)

Spanish

pieza (bolt, chessman, fragment, kill, lump, part, patch, roll, room, share), pedazo (bit, Cantel, chunk, end, hunk, lieu, lump, morsel, nub, spare part, wedge), parte (allotment, bit, Cantel, Cantle, communique, component, crumb, deal, despatch, detail, device, dial, dispatch, district, doormat, element, end, episode, faction, fragmemt, granule, kernel, lieu, lot, part, Parthian, partition, party, patch, percentage, place, point, portion, proportion, quantum, report, role, section, share, side, slice, some, spot, substance, the part, way, whack), tela (bit, cloth, dry goods, fabric, Guinea, lump, material, spare part, stuff, web). (various references)

Swahili

sehemu (part, share), kipande (bit, fragment, lump, part, share, spare part). (various references)

Swedish

bit (bit, Cantel, Cantle, chip, cob, cutting, fragment, joint, lump, morsel, mouthful, scrap, section, stick, tablet), stycke (bit, Cantel, Cantle, chip, fragment, lump, paragraph, part, patch, scrap, slip, subsection, subsections, track), styck (a piece), pjäs (man, play), lapp (clout, laplander, Lapp, patch, rag, scrap, slip, tab, tag, ticket), del (article, end, episode, fraction, installment, instalment, member, part, Parthian, partition, portion, section, segment, share, volume). (various references)

Thai

แบ่งปันผลประโยชน์ให้คนอื่น (give another person a piece of the cake). (various references)

Turkish

parça (attachment, batch, bit, cake, Cantle, component, cut, dribblet, driblet, fraction, fragment, gobbet, item, lump, moiety, morsel, part, passage, patch, portion, scrap, segment, shred, snatch, tool), piyondan büyük taş, piyes (play, representation, spectacle, stage play), parçalarını eklemek, parça koymak (piece up), birleştirmek (aggregate, ally, amalgamate, assemble, associate, colligate, combine, compound, confederate, congregate, conjoin, connect, consolidate, consubstantiate, couple, dovetail, federate, fuze, incorporate, inosculate, integrate, interconnect, interlink, join, joint, knit together, knit up, link up, match, mediatize, patch up, piece together, pool, put to, put together, reunite, stick together, tack, tag, unify, unite, wed to), eklemek (add, adjoin, affix, annex, append, attach, insert, interlard, interpolate, join, join together, joint, link, link up, put in, put on, put to, run in, slap on, splice, subjoin, suffix, superimpose, supplement, tack, throw in, write in), eser (achievement, baby, consequence, creation, effort, ghost, handiwork, production, vestige, work), 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 of work, place, ploy, post, profession, pursuit, racket, regulation, shop, show, spindle, stint, task, things to do, trade, work, working, workings, works), kırıntı (bit, chip, crumb, debris, fragment, ort, scrap, scraps, sweeps), kısa mesafe (spell), bir parça (a bit, a bit of a, a little, a piece of, dollop, dosage, dose, element, faint, ounce, some, something of, somewhat, soupcon), madeni para (coin, hard cash, hard money, specie, token), yamalamak (botch), tüfek (Fusil, gun, rifle), taş (allusion, calculus, concretion, dig, Flint, gem, gibe, gravel, hit, innuendo, jeer, jibe, lapidary, rock, stone), tane (bead, bean, grain, kernel, legume, seed), kısa süre (short notice, short time, snatch, span, spell, streak). (various references)

Turkmen 

tike (bit, morsel), dцwьm (lump). (various references)

Ukrainian

уламок (chip, fragmemt, odd-come-short, torso), штука (affair), штопати (darn, mend), кусок (bit, bite, cake, nugget, slab, wad), окремий предмет (singular), з'єднувати в єдине ціле, збирати з кусків, лагодити (amend, darn, do up, mend, piece up, refit, repair, revamp, vamp), ділянка (allotment, area, field, lot, parcel, township). (various references)

Vietnamese 

viên, thị mẹt cùng một giuộc, nòng pháo quân cờ cái việc, miếng (cantle, crumb, morsel, sliver), mẩu, mảnh (fragment, strip), lời (gain, voice), khúc... bộ phận, khẩu pháo, chiếc, cùng một loại cùng một giuộc với, cục (clod, clot, department, junk, knob, lump, service), cái (female, thing), đập ai tơi bời. (various references)

Welsh

darn (bit, fragment, lump, part). (various references)

Yucatec

xet' (bit, lump, share). (various references)

Zulu

isiqhephu (bit, lump). (various references)

ba, lag. (various references)

fragmentum, glebae, glebas, glebis, pars, parsque, parte, partem, partemque, partes, parti, partibus, partis, partium, partum. (various references)

pan. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "piece": pieced, piecemeal, piecer, piecers, pieces, piecewise, piecework, pieceworker, pieceworkers, pieceworks. (additional references)

Words ending with "piece": afterpiece, altarpiece, apiece, centerpiece, chimneypiece, codpiece, crosspiece, earpiece, eyepiece, fieldpiece, frontispiece, hairpiece, headpiece, heelpiece, mantelpiece, masterpiece, mouthpiece, multipiece, nosepiece, seapiece, shankpiece, showpiece, sidepiece, stringpiece, tailpiece, timepiece, toepiece, workpiece. (additional references)

Words containing "piece": afterpieces, altarpieces, centerpieces, chimneypieces, codpieces, crosspieces, earpieces, eyepieces, fieldpieces, frontispieces, hairpieces, headpieces, heelpieces, mantelpieces, masterpieces, mouthpieces, nosepieces, seapieces, shankpieces, showpieces, sidepieces, stringpieces, tailpieces, timepieces, toepieces, workpieces. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Piece" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fimeche, Ipico, Paeca, paece, parece, Peccei, pece, pecel, Peche, peci, peco, pecu, peecee, peefe, peice, peine, piace, piaco, Piche, piec, piecen, Pieck, piede, piege, piek, pieke, piele, pience, piere, piese, pieste, pieve, pieye, pieze, Pifco, pilce, pince, pioca, Pioche, pirce, pisca, pliec, pliece, Poeke, prece, preke, Priesca, puede, puice, pyc, pyka, siece, spiece, viece. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cepe, epic, pice.

-2 letters: cee, cep, ice, pec, pee, pic, pie.

-3 letters: pe, pi.

+1 letter: apiece, pieced, piecer, pieces, pierce, recipe, specie.

+2 letters: calipee, cepheid, cheapie, creepie, crepier, eclipse, epeiric, ephebic, epicene, epicure, epigeic, eupneic, exciple, peckier, pectize, pedicel, pedicle, pickeer, picotee, piecers, pierced, piercer, pierces, precipe, precise, receipt, recipes, reprice, species.

+3 letters: bicepses, calipees, callipee, cepheids, cheapies, cheeping, cheliped, cineplex, ciphered, codpiece, creepier, creepies, creepily, creeping, crepiest, decipher, decrepit, depicted, depicter, earpiece, eclipsed, eclipses, empyemic, encipher, epicedia, epicenes, epiclike, epicures, epicycle, epidemic, epigenic, epimeric, episcope, especial, eupeptic, euphenic, eupnoeic, exciples, eyepiece, herpetic, incepted, patience, peacenik, peachier, peckiest, pectines, pectized, pectizes, pedicels, pedicled, pedicles, pedicure, pellicle, penciled, penciler, perceive, pericope, petechia, phenetic, pickeers, pickerel, picketed, picketer, picotees, piercers, pinecone, praecipe, precieux, precipes, precised, preciser, precises, precited, premedic, prentice, preprice, preslice, pulicene, receipts, recopied, recopies, repriced, reprices, resplice, sapience, seapiece, semplice, sixpence, speciate, specimen, terpenic, toepiece.