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(verb) repair by adding pieces; "She pieced the china cup" |
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Synonyms: patch |
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Related Words: bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on |
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(verb) join during spinning, as of broken pieces of thread, slivers, or rovings |
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Related Words: splice |
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(noun) a separate part of a whole: "and important piece of the evidence" |
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Related Words: fag end, fragment, part, piece of leather, portion, shard, sherd, snip, snippet, snipping |
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(noun) an object created by a sculptor; "it was not known who created the piece" |
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Related Words: sculpture |
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(noun) an item that is an instance of some type; "he designed a new piece of equipment" or "she bought a lovely piece of china" |
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Related Words: item |
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(noun) a distance; "it is down the road a piece" |
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Related Words: distance |
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(noun) an artistic or literary composition; "he wrote an interesting piece on Iran"; "the children acted out a comic piece to amuse the guests" |
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Related Words: afterpiece, article, creation |
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(noun) an instance of some kind; "it was a nice piece of work"; "he had a bit of good luck" |
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Synonyms: bit |
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Related Words: case, example, instance |
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(noun) a serving that has been cut from a larger portion; "a piece of pie"; "a slice of bread" |
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Synonyms: slice |
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Related Words: cutlet, filet, fillet, fish filet, fish fillet, helping, portion, scallop, serving |
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(verb) to join or unite the pieces of; "patch the skirt" |
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Synonyms: patch |
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Related Words: conjoin, join, vamp, vamp up |
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(verb) make by putting pieces together; "She pieced a quilt" |
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Synonyms: assemble, put together, set up |
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Related Words: bring together, comfit, compound, confect, confection, configure, confuse, create, join, jumble, make, mix up, reassemble, rig up |
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(noun) a portable gun; "he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster" |
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Synonyms: firearm, small-arm |
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Related Words: .22, autoloader, gun, handgun, machine gun, muzzle loader, pistol, repeater, repeating firearm, rifle, scattergun, shooting iron, shotgun, side arm, twenty-two |
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(noun) a small 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" |
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Synonyms: man |
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Related Words: black, chess piece, chessman, game equipment, white |
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(noun) a portion of a natural object; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite" |
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Synonyms: part |
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Related Words: acicula, base, body part, corner, corpus, cutting, entity, fragment, hunk, lump, nub, segment, slice, something, strip, stub, world |
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(noun) a share of something; "a slice of the company's revenue" |
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Synonyms: slice |
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Related Words: part, percentage, portion, share |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: spell, while |
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Related Words: time |
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(verb) 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" |
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Synonyms: nibble, pick |
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Related Words: eat |
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(noun) a musical work that has been created; "the composition is written in four movements" |
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Synonyms: composition, musical composition, opus, piece of music |
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Related Words: adagio, arrangement, bagatelle, canon, creation, divertimento, duet, duette, duo, etude, fantasia, idyll, intermezzo, medley, movement, music, musical arrangement, musical passage, nocturne, octet, octette, passage, pastiche, pastoral, pastorale, potpourri, quartet, quartette, quintet, quintette, septet, septette, serenade, sestet, sextet, sextette, sheet music, solo, song, study, suite, symphonic poem, toccata, tone poem, trio |
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