piece

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
2. A single item belonging to a class of similar items.
3. One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished from a pawn; (by extension) those with which draughts, backgammon, and other similar board games are played.
4. A coin, especially one valued at less than the principal unit of currency.
5. An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc.
6. An article published in the press.
7. An artillery gun.
8. (US, colloquial) A gun.
9. (Canada, US, colloquial) A toupee or wig, especially when worn by a man.
10. (Ireland, Scotland, UK, US, dialectal) A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its own; a sandwich or light snack.
11. (US, colloquial, vulgar) A sexual encounter; from piece of ass or piece of tail.
12. (US, colloquial, mildly, vulgar) A shoddy or worthless object (usually applied to consumer products like vehicles or appliances).
13. (US, slang) A cannabis pipe.
14. (uncountable) Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the opposing team or going foul. Usually used in the past tense with get.
15. (dated, derogatory, sometimes) An individual; a person.
16. (obsolete) A castle; a fortified building.
17. (US) A pacifier; a dummy.
18. (colloquial) A distance.
19. A structured practice row, often used for performance evaluation.
20. An amount of work to be done at one time; a unit of piece work.
21. (slang) An ounce of a recreational drug.

Verb

1. (transitive, usually) To assemble (something real or figurative).
2. To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out.
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.

Conceptos

pedazo

pieza

trozo

parte

fragmento

obra

composición

juntar

moneda

🪙

porción

pieza de artillería

mueble

experto

ficha

franja

hoja

instante

ladrillo

minuto

momento

montar

país

pastilla

💊

patria

picar

prenda

provincia

recorte

región

retazo

reunir

sección

segundo

tela

territorio

unidad

zona

fraccion

fractura

mordisquear

muebles

pedacito

quebradura

rotura

tijeretazo

trocito

partes de la planta

reensamblar

arma

trozito

arma de fuego

armar

casco

comarca

corte

cuadro

departamento

diestro

distrito

ejemplo

estado

Sinónimos

bit

part

fragment

slice

portion

section

lump

chunk

scrap

patch

segment

shred

morsel

chip

strip

hunk

component

flake

man

👨

cut

division

share

penetrate

item

block

put together

work

bite

musical composition

side

slab

assemble

half

coin

🪙

cloth

crumb

piece of music

join

article

thing

detail

slip

composition

particle

firearm

joint

parcel

unite

while

plot

song

🎶

stick

element

combine

splinter

component part

shard

snatch

body

district

movement

gun

🔫

nibble

spell

objet d’art

annex

colligate

opus

art object

chick

tack

tack together

passage

ascribe

pawn

ingot

ingredient

token

pick

⛏️

excerpt

unit

connect

constituent

weapon

counter

fitting

region

piece of cloth

relate

link

🔗

link up

log

lot

mass

associate

sector

set up

cake

🍰

small-arm

small piece

leaf

lear

length

limb

marshal

member

mend

merge

miter

mix

mo

moment

mountings

muster

node

nosh

of

one

only

order

packed lunch

page

pair

paragraph

partial

patch up

peg

period

piece goods

pieces

pig

🐖

piggyback

pin

place

play

point

pool

present

pull together

put through

quilt

rag

rally

rasher

ration

rebate

remnant

repair

ribbon

🎀

rifle

rod

role

round up

sample

sculpture

seam

sections

sheet

shot gun

slide

smithereens

snippet

snipping

solid

some

spare part

specimen

splice

stone

🪨

story

string

🪢

string up

subjoin

subsection

suffix

summate

supplement

suture

tablet

tatter

tee

territory

tessellate

throw

tie

tie in

tile

time

⌚

title

tome

tone

totalize

transfix

trunk

twin

unify

unitize

vamp

vamp up

volume

wad

wafer

way

weapon system

wee

weld

wisp

wood

🪵

yoke

zone

cut sheet

New York minute

piece of meat

piece of work

rig up

broken piece

dry-goods

cut-off piece

cut film

technicals

focalise

totalise

part of

portiion

transpiece

artillery piece

small stick

thin bar

best part of anything

bargaining chip

dinero

statute title

unitise

slic

pitch slat

stem personal lot

fate flap

break-pack

sliced vencer

microtome section

plant component

accessory

a little

append

area

arm

artillery

assimilate

atom

attach

bar

bi

bind

blend

bond

boon

brick

bridge

bring together

briquet

briquette

broken

button

cane

cannon

chapter

chop

clause

clipping

clod

close

clot

clump

coalesce

cobble

collect

come up

comfit

compile

complect

compound

conjoin

country

couple

👫

couple on

currency

cutting

darn

digest

direction

dog

🐕

dollop

draw up

editorial

end

🔚

engine

engraft

estuary

expert

fabricate

fag end

feature

figure

fill

fillet

film

📽️

findings

fleck

focalize

fraction

fritter

furniture

fuse

get up

gift

🎁

gobbet

grain

granule

hairpiece

handle

heap

hem

hook up

hound

hour

immingle

impale

inclusion

inlet

instalment

instant

instument

integrate

interconnect

job

knit

knot

🪢

lamella

lamina

layered

Traducciones

morceau

Stück

1️⃣

pièce

stuk

Teil

partie

part

deel

fragment

bout

🔚

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/piːs/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: pece

Cognado con inglés: fit

Cognado con islandés: fit

Cognado con alemán: Fitze

Cognado con alto alemán antiguo: *fitjâ

Cognado con galés: peth

Cognado con bretón: pez

Cognado con irlandés: cuid

Cognado con francés: pièce

Cognado con portugués: peça

Cognado con español: pieza

Cognado con italiano: pezza

Cognado con italiano: pezzo

In summary

From Middle English pece, peece, peice, from Old French piece, from Late Latin petia, pettia, possibly from Gaulish *pettyā, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis (“piece, portion, quota”); doublet of English fit, fytte, fytt (“musical piece, chapter”), Icelandic fit (“web”), German Fitze (“skein”), from Old High German *fitjâ. Compare Welsh peth, Breton pez (“thing”), Irish cuid. Compare French pièce, Portuguese peça, Spanish pieza, Italian pezza, Italian pezzo.

Oraciones

A large piece suddenly came off and fell with a loud and sharp noise .

Una pieza grande de repente se quitó y cayó con un ruido fuerte y agudo.

A woman sits on a piece of art furniture .

Una mujer se sienta en una pieza de muebles de arte.

This was a record price for a Kooning piece sold at auction .

Este fue un precio récord para una pieza de kooning vendida en una subasta.

I'll work all night , until dawn , and I'll clean every piece of crystal in your shop .

Trabajaré toda la noche, hasta el amanecer, y limpiaré cada pieza de cristal de tu tienda.