piece

Noun piece has 13 senses

• piece(n = noun.artifact) - a separate part of a whole; "an important piece of the evidence"
has particulars: beam, piece of cloth, piece of material, piece of leather, scrap, fragment, shard, sherd, snip, snippet, snipping, spindle
is a kind of part, portion
Derived forms verb piece₅, verb piece₁, verb piece₂

• piece(n = noun.artifact) - an item that is an instance of some type; "he designed a new piece of equipment"; "she bought a lovely piece of china"
is a kind of item

• piece(n = noun.object) part - a portion of a natural object; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite"
is a kind of thing
has particulars: body part, corpus, acicula, base, corner, craton, cutting, fragment, hunk, lump, nub, stub, segment, slice, strip, world, north atlantic, north pacific, south atlantic, south pacific
is a part of building block, unit

• piece(n = noun.communication) composition, musical composition, opus, piece of music - a musical work that has been created; "the composition is written in four movements"
has particulars: morceau, sheet music, arrangement, musical arrangement, realisation, realization, intermezzo, allegro, allegretto, andante, introit, solo, duet, duette, duo, trio, quartet, quartette, quintet, quintette, sestet, sextet, sextette, septet, septette, octet, octette, bagatelle, divertimento, serenade, canon, etude, idyl, idyll, pastoral, pastorale, toccata, fantasia, musical passage, passage, movement, largo, larghetto, suite, symphonic poem, tone poem, medley, pastiche, potpourri, nocturne, notturno, adagio, song, vocal, study, capriccio, motet, program music, programme music, incidental music
is a kind of music
has parts: coda, finale

• piece(n = noun.event) bit - an instance of some kind; "it was a nice piece of work"; "he had a bit of good luck"
is a kind of case, example, instance

• piece(n = noun.communication) - an artistic or literary composition; "he wrote an interesting piece on Iran"; "the children acted out a comic piece to amuse the guests"
is a kind of creation
has particulars: article, morceau, afterpiece, fragment, hiatus

• piece(n = noun.artifact) firearm, small-arm - a portable gun; "he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster"
has particulars: autoloader, self-loader, muzzle loader, handgun, pistol, shooting iron, side arm, repeater, repeating firearm, rifle, riot gun, scattergun, shotgun, smoothbore, .22, twenty-two
has parts: firing pin, lock, sights
is a kind of gun

• piece(n = noun.food) slice - a serving that has been cut from a larger portion; "a piece of pie"; "a slice of bread"
is a kind of helping, portion, serving
has particulars: cutlet, escallop, scallop, scollop, filet, fillet, fish filet, fish fillet
Derived form verb piece₄

• piece(n = noun.attribute) - a distance; "it is down the road a piece"
is a kind of distance

• piece(n = noun.artifact) art object, objet d'art - a work of art of some artistic value; "this store sells only objets d'art"; "it is not known who created this piece"