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Apiece


Definition:

  • (adv.) Each by itself; by the single one; to each; as the share of each; as, these melons cost a shilling apiece.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) More recently Nigel Reo-Coker and Curtis Davies, both of whom play for Aston Villa, cost £8.5m apiece, while Anton Ferdinand reportedly went for a similar amount of cash from West Ham to Sunderland.
  • (2) In Game Four two home runs from Jhonny Peralta and a homer apiece from Triple Crown-winner Cabrera and Austin Jackson led the annihilation.
  • (3) He said that on nights when the restaurant is crowded, police will issue a handful of zoning violation tickets at $1,100 apiece.
  • (4) While Tim Duncan and Tony Parker ended the game with a respectable 14 and 15 points apiece, they weren't the key pieces of what ended up being the best shooting first half in the history of the NBA finals .
  • (5) Prior to his appointment at the National Theatre of Scotland , Tiffany was an associate director at the new writing company Paines Plough and literary manager at the Traverse theatre in Edinburgh, for four years apiece.
  • (6) Cambridge United and Plymouth Argyle managed four goals apiece against Carlisle in August.
  • (7) Lee Daniels' The Butler , Jean-Marc Vallee's Dallas Buyers Club and John Wells's adaptation of Tracy Letts's August: Osage County bagged three nominations apiece.
  • (8) While the equinox signals a time when day and night are equal, the moment when both share 12 hours apiece happens days earlier, because of atmospheric effects.
  • (9) Who wouldn’t fall in love with Mole from Wind in the Willows, Jo from Little Women, Tiny Tim from Christmas Carol or Roberta from The Railway Children?” At Wordsworth Editions, the independent press that publishes around 220 classic titles for £1.99 apiece, managing director Helen Ranson said she was “delighted” that Gibb was addressing the issue of providing classics affordably to schools.
  • (10) The two models made by Taser, one for the glasses and one for the chest, cost between $399 and $599 apiece, not including access to Evidence.com.
  • (11) The RAF Tornados, based in Britain’s base at Akrotiri in Cyprus, can fire radar-guided anti-armour Brimstone missiles, which are conservatively estimated to cost £100,000 each; heavier Paveway IV bombs, estimated at £30,000 apiece; and long-range Storm Shadow missiles, estimated at nearly £790,000 each.
  • (12) Pride and bragging rights are at stake in tonight's match between these fierce South American rivals, with both sides deadlocked on 33 wins apiece in 89 encounters.
  • (13) St Kilda and Melbourne went into this match on five wins apiece and are at similar stages in their rebuilds.
  • (14) Referee Jon Moss sends off Vardy and awards a penalty apiece, leaving both sets of players up in arms.
  • (15) In 2009, the neo-fascist British National party came in on 6%, and both the anti-Celtic English Democrats and a Christian political alliance achieved 2% apiece.
  • (16) The treaty is to replace the 1991 Start treaty that saw the two countries slash their arsenals, which then stood at 10,000 warheads apiece.
  • (17) That I'm amazing obviously #LeeLinforPM September 14, 2015 (It was a good night on Twitter for the SBS host Lee Lin Chin, who had another two tweets in Max Kelsen’s best-of list with 500+ retweets apiece.)
  • (18) Last Sunday, Banksy set up a table in Central Park selling small canvases with his trademark image of a rat for $60 apiece, according to his website.
  • (19) Talked also of our Hamlets, of which two apiece, and generally smoothed his aching journey through the day where I could.
  • (20) Damaging results for teams around them, notably Fulham, Norwich City and, 24 hours earlier, West Ham United, allowed Stoke and Cardiff to take satisfaction from the point apiece that enabled both of them to climb two places to stay three points above the bottom three.

Piece


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A definite portion or quantity, as of goods or work; as, a piece of broadcloth; a piece of wall paper.
  • (n.) 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
  • (n.) A literary or artistic composition; as, a piece of poetry, music, or statuary.
  • (n.) A musket, gun, or cannon; as, a battery of six pieces; a following piece.
  • (n.) A coin; as, a sixpenny piece; -- formerly applied specifically to an English gold coin worth 22 shillings.
  • (n.) A fact; an item; as, a piece of news; a piece of knowledge.
  • (n.) An individual; -- applied to a person as being of a certain nature or quality; often, but not always, used slightingly or in contempt.
  • (n.) One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn.
  • (n.) A castle; a fortified building.
  • (v. t.) To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; as, to piece a garment; -- often with out.
  • (v. t.) To unite; to join; to combine.
  • (v. i.) To unite by a coalescence of parts; to fit together; to join.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Small pieces of anterior and posterior quail wing-bud mesoderm (HH stages 21-23) were placed in in vitro culture for up to 3 days.
  • (2) The patient, a 12 year-old boy, showed a soft white yellowish mycotic excrescence with clear borders which had followed the introduction of a small piece of straw into the cornea.
  • (3) That piece was placed on the slide and embedded with a mixture of agar and antiserum.
  • (4) Originally from Pyongyang, the tour guide explains that a “merited artist” from Mansudae, North Korea’s biggest art studio in Pyongyang, was responsible for the main piece, but that it took 63 artists almost two years to complete.
  • (5) Each daughter merozoite receives a branch or piece of the parent organelle.
  • (6) Heads you 'own it' Ian Read, the Scottish-born accountant who runs the biggest drug firm in the US carries in his pocket a special gold coin, about the size and weight of a £2 piece.
  • (7) A modification of a previously described curved ruler, the current model has a hinge for greater ease of maneuverability and a "T" piece on one end to facilitate measurement and marking of both poles of the muscle without repositioning the ruler.
  • (8) DNA sequence analysis of a 3.8-kb genomic piece allowed identification of (i) an open reading frame (ORF) with striking homology to the previously identified D. melanogaster ORF and (ii) conserved sequence elements of possible regulatory relevance within and flanking the second intron.
  • (9) I could just banish the app from my phone forever, but deleting a piece of smart tech that makes my life easier doesn’t feel very satisfying.
  • (10) Dean Baquet, the managing editor in question, does admit in the piece that walking out was not perhaps the best thing for a senior editor like him to do.
  • (11) Criminal court charges leave me no choice but to resign as a magistrate Read more “This is a terrible piece of legislation introduced through the back door,” he wrote.
  • (12) The voltage trace is then analysed with a piece of transparent paper, on which lines corresponding to solutions of the diffusion equation convert the time axis of the voltage trace into a concentration axis.
  • (13) Sculthorpe’s catalogue consists of more than 350 pieces ranging from solos to orchestral works and opera.
  • (14) Piccoli followed that up with an opinion piece for Fairfax Media on Thursday in which said the SES model never applied to public schools and was not properly targeted to student needs.
  • (15) I still find that trying to weave together into a visual narrative and cutting together two pieces of a film – two different images.
  • (16) Each of the mice received 3 pieces of explants on the s.c. space in both of their flanks.
  • (17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest No shake: Donald Trump snubs Angela Merkel during photo op The piece of pantomime was in stark contrast to the visit of Theresa May in January.
  • (18) During each test period one group chewed a combination of one piece sorbitol and one piece sucrose flavored gum five times per day, the second group correspondingly chewed xylitol and sucrose flavored gum, while the third group served as a no hygiene control group.
  • (19) Pieces of spleen of both groups were fixed in formalin and embedded in paraffin.
  • (20) When Hayley Cropper swallows poison on Coronation Street on Monday night, taking her own life to escape inoperable pancreatic cancer, with her beloved husband, Roy, in pieces at her bedside, it will be the end of a character who, thanks to Hesmondhalgh's performance, has captivated and challenged British TV viewers for 16 years.

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