Meaning

4 senses
  1. A piece of freestanding stage scenery.

    a piece of scenery intended to stand alone as part of the stage setting

  2. Any carefully planned sequence of operations, especially as part of a military operation.

    set-piece battle

  3. An elaborate and interesting scene in a movie or video game, usually the most important and visually iconic scene in the work.

  4. Any planned strategy that a team uses after play is restarted with a free kick, penalty kick, corner kick, goal kick, throw-in or kickoff.

    Roberto Carlos is deadly from set pieces.

    Standardsituation

    станда́ртное положе́ниеstandártnoje položénije

Examples

3 sentences
  1. She designs set pieces for theater productions.

  2. They concede most of their goals from set pieces.

  3. The defenders are lining up to defend against this set piece.

Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
soccer strategy:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
soccer strategy:

Forms

plural: set pieces

Synonyms

1 synonyms
set play

Word family

1 related words
Relateddead ball

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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