Piece
A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piece of sugar; to break in pieces.
A definite portion or quantity, as of goods or work; as, a piece of broadcloth; a piece of wall paper.
Any one thing conceived of as apart from other things of the same kind; an individual article; a distinct single effort of a series; a definite performance
A literary or artistic composition; as, a piece of poetry, music, or statuary.
A musket, gun, or cannon; as, a battery of six pieces; a following piece.
A coin; as, a sixpenny piece; -- formerly applied specifically to an English gold coin worth 22 shillings.
A fact; an item; as, a piece of news; a piece of knowledge.
An individual; -- applied to a person as being of a certain nature or quality; often, but not always, used slightingly or in contempt.
One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn.
A castle; a fortified building.
To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; as, to piece a garment; -- often with out.
To unite; to join; to combine.
To unite by a coalescence of parts; to fit together; to join.
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Piece Quotations
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
Buddha
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
William Shakespeare
I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.
Steve Jobs
When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.
Steve Jobs
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
Aristotle
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.
John Lennon
I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
Henry David Thoreau
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
Barack Obama
A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
George S. Patton
Piece Translations
piece in Afrikaans is gedeelte, deel, stuk
piece in Danish is del, brud, brudstykke, stykke
piece in Dutch is fragment, brok
piece in Finnish is pala, osa
piece in Italian is porzione, pezzo
piece in Norwegian is del
piece in Portuguese is parte
piece in Spanish is parte, pedazo, pieza, porcion, tela
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