What's the difference between move and piece?

Move


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as, the wind moves a vessel; the horse moves a carriage.
  • (v. t.) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king.
  • (v. t.) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.
  • (v. t.) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion; to touch pathetically; to excite, as an emotion.
  • (v. t.) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit, as a resolution to be adopted; as, to move to adjourn.
  • (v. t.) To apply to, as for aid.
  • (v. i.) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another; as, a ship moves rapidly.
  • (v. i.) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act; as, to move in a matter.
  • (v. i.) To change residence; to remove, as from one house, town, or state, to another.
  • (v. i.) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of the game.
  • (n.) The act of moving; a movement.
  • (n.) The act of moving one of the pieces, from one position to another, in the progress of the game.
  • (n.) An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
  • (2) The International Monetary Fund, which has long urged Nigeria to remove the subsidy, supports the move.
  • (3) A chronic cannulation procedure is described which allows for sampling vomeronasal organ (VNO) contents repeatedly in freely moving conscious subjects.
  • (4) Of the five committees asked to develop bills, four have completed their work, and the Senate Finance Committee announced today that it will move forward next week.
  • (5) The move would require some secondary legislation; higher fines for employers paying less than the minimum wage would require new primary legislation.
  • (6) Five of them had a fast-moving Eco RI fragment 5.6 kb long that hybridized with zeta-specific probe but not with alpha-specific probe.
  • (7) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
  • (8) The move to an alliance model is not only to achieve greater scale and reach, although growing from 15 partner organisations to 50 members is not to be sniffed at.
  • (9) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
  • (10) Dzeko he has failed to hold down a starting berth since his £27m move in January 2011.
  • (11) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
  • (12) The move comes as a poll found that 74% of people want doctors to be allowed to help terminally ill people end their lives.
  • (13) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
  • (14) Wright said he had recently shown a family moving from London around a four-bedroom house with a paddock, on sale for £375,000.
  • (15) Johnson said the move would save businesses £350m from not having to meet the more exacting standards, which will now only have to be met by buses.
  • (16) Like many families, we’ve had to move to escape the fighting.
  • (17) Although a variety of new teaching strategies and materials are available in education today, medical education has been slow to move away from the traditional lecture format.
  • (18) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
  • (19) Scientists at the University of Trento, Italy, have discovered that the way a dog's tail moves is linked to its mood, and by observing each other's tails, dogs can adjust their behaviour accordingly .
  • (20) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.

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.