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    piece
    [pēs]
    noun
    piece (noun) · pieces (plural noun)
    1. a portion of an object or of material, produced by cutting, tearing, or breaking the whole:
      "a piece of cheese" · "the dish lay in pieces upon the floor" · "she tore his letters to pieces"
      • one of the items that were put together to make something and into which it naturally divides:
        "take a car to pieces"
      • an item of a particular type, especially one forming one of a set:
        "a piece of luggage"
      • an instance or example:
        "a crucial piece of evidence"
      • a financial share:
        "each employee owns a piece of the company"
      • a written, musical, or artistic creation or composition:
        "a hauntingly beautiful piece of music"
      • a coin of specified value:
        "a 10-cent piece"
      • a figure or token used to make moves in a board game.
      • chess
        a king, queen, bishop, knight, or rook, as opposed to a pawn.
      • informal
        a firearm.
      • offensive
        a woman.
    verb
    piece (verb) · pieces (third person present) · pieced (past tense) · pieced (past participle) · piecing (present participle)
    1. (piece something together)
      assemble something from individual parts:
      "the children took turns piecing together each other's jigsaw puzzle"
      • slowly make sense of something from separate facts and pieces of evidence:
        "Daniel had pieced the story together from the radio"
    2. archaic
      (piece something out)
      extend something:
      "his coming and assisting them was like a cordial given to a dying man, which doth piece out his life"
    3. archaic
      patch (something):
      "if it be broken it must be pieced"
    Origin
    Middle English: from Old French piece (compare with medieval Latin pecia, petium), of obscure ultimate origin.
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    1. a portion of an object or of material, produced by cutting, tearing, or breaking the whole:
     
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