Meaning

4 senses

  1. (transitive, usually)To assemble (something real or figurative).

    These clues allowed us to piece together the solution to the mystery.

  2. To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out.

    to piece a garment

    repair by adding pieces

  3. (slang)To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag.

  4. (dated, informal, intransitive, often, with on)To eat small quantities of food between meals; to snack; to take small or intermittent bites at a food item.

    eat intermittently; take small bites of

Examples

1664 sentences

  1. I want a piece of candy.

    Я хочу цукерку. — zinova

    ruХочу конфету. — ae5s

    deIch will ein Bonbon. — MUIRIEL

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  2. How about another piece of cake?

    Хочеш ще шматочок торта? — deniko

    deWie wäre es mit noch einem Stück Kuchen? — pne

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  3. Who wants another piece of cake?

    Хто хоче ще шматочек торту? — deniko

    ruКто хочет ещё кусочек торта? — Biga

    deWer will noch ein Stück Kuchen? — Manfredo

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  4. I ate your piece of cake.

    Я з'їв твій шматочок торту. — deniko

    ruЯ съел твой кусок торта. — marafon

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  5. Would you like another piece of cake?

    Хочете ще шматочок торта? — deniko

    ruХотите ещё кусочек торта? — marafon

    deWollen Sie noch ein Stück Kuchen? — MUIRIEL

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Translations

2 languages

Origin

From Middle English pece, peece, peice, from Old French piece, from Late Latin pecia, peti

From Middle English pece, peece, peice, from Old French piece, from Late Latin pecia, petia (“broken piece, fragment; parcel of land”), of uncertain origin. Possibly ultimately from Gaulish *pettyā, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis (“piece, portion, quota”). Compare Welsh peth (“thing, stuff, junk”), Breton pez (“thing”), Irish cuid (“part, portion”). Compare French pièce, Portuguese peça, Spanish pieza, Italian pezza, Italian pezzo. Displaced native Middle English sticche, stucche (“piece, fragment”) from Old English styċċe (“piece, portion”), whence also English styca.

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Forms

pieces, piecing, pieced, pieced
Base formpiece · to piece
3rd person singularpieces
Present participlepiecing
Past simplepieced
Past participlepieced

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypiece
he, she, itpieces

Past simpleLesson

all personspieced

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave pieced
he, she, ithas pieced

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill piece

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

12 synonyms
eatA1haveA1noshnibblefret
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words
Derivedpiece outpiece togetherrepieceunpiece

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

11 patterns
  • a piece of
  • piece of cake
  • piece of pie
  • another piece of
  • last piece of
  • piece of advice
  • piece of candy
  • the last piece
  • another piece
  • piece of chalk
  • this piece of

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
picturesqueB2pidginpieB1piecemeal

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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