piece

piece
I UK [piːs] / US [pɪs] noun [countable]
Word forms "piece":
singular piece plural pieces
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1)
a) an individual object of a particular type
piece of:

I've used four pieces of paper already.

Power tools can be expensive pieces of equipment.

b) a single instance of something of a particular type

a piece of work/writing/research

a piece of nonsense

a piece of music

a piece of information/advice/news

2)
a) a part that has been cut, broken, or separated from something larger

He divided the dough into four pieces.

piece of:

The longest piece of wood was over four metres.

Can I offer you another piece of cake?

a piece of land

b) a part that you fit together with other parts to make something

I didn't expect the furniture to arrive in pieces.

take something to pieces (= separate it into parts):

We had to take the bed to pieces to get it down the stairs.

3)
a) a written, musical, or artistic work that someone has produced

This vase is a particularly beautiful piece.

piece of:

a piece of music/sculpture/poetry

b) an article in a newspaper or magazine, or a part of a television or radio programme

My search began after reading a piece in the Daily Mirror.

write/do a piece on/about something:

He had previously written an investigative piece about the killings.

4) an object that you move in a board game

chess pieces

5) American informal a gun
6)
a) a coin that has a particular value

a ten-pence piece

b) an old word meaning "coin"

pieces of silver

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(all) of a piece — the same as something else or as the rest of something

This latest action is all of a piece with his previous behaviour.

(a) piece of cake — informal something that is very easy to do

"How was the test?" "Piece of cake."

a piece of the puzzle/jigsaw — a part of a complicated or continuing situation that helps you to understand it

Fortunately, the next step in the research process supplied the missing piece of the puzzle.

pull/rip/tear etcsomeone/something to pieces — to criticize someone or something severely

Every suggestion was pulled to pieces by the committee.

smash/break/tear etc something to pieces — to break something into so many pieces that it is completely destroyed

The furniture had been smashed to pieces.

See:

II UK [piːs] / US [pɪs] verb
Word forms "piece":
present tense I/you/we/they piece he/she/it pieces present participle piecing past tense pieced past participle pieced
Phrasal verbs:

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