(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.
Shred
Definition:
(n.) A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip.
(n.) In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle.
(imp. & p. p.) of Shred
(n.) To cut or tear into small pieces, particularly narrow and long pieces, as of cloth or leather.
(n.) To lop; to prune; to trim.
Example Sentences:
(1) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
(2) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
(3) The shredded fibres were trimmed in most cases and this allowed better definition of the amount of ligament considered to be torn.
(4) Not to mention the files they may have already shredded.” One core problem is that too many expectations have been heaped on a trial that cannot bear them all.
(5) The dream has allowed us to ignore that our social safety net has been shredded into cobwebs, because the dream tells us that if we work hard enough, we won’t ever need a net.
(6) It only looks like a $100m movie.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest I think Britons of Poulter’s generation – now in their late teens and early 20s, spectators while the economic fiascos of recent years shredded their odds of financial stability in the future – are more inclined to be aware of money, and more inclined to be aware of its reckless use.
(7) Grilled cuttlefish on a bed of chestnut purée comes dramatically drizzled with black squid ink and shredded fried leek, while the innocuous-sounding champi con foie conceals mushroom, foie gras, creamy alioli (garlic mayonnaise) and a slick of salsa verde.
(8) This week Rogoff and Reinhart are fighting to salvage their reputations from the humiliating experience of having their paper torn to shreds.
(9) Yousef claims that no one can “produce a shred of evidence that Hamas formally encourages prejudice against anyone’s ethnicity”.
(10) All of that underscores the problem Republicans are faced with: how to repeal a law that touches nearly every facet of American healthcare, and insures an additional 20 million Americans, without shredding a fragile system.
(11) After all, the easiest way for a government to shred social security for disabled people is to present the argument that many are not actually disabled.
(12) The answer reveals much about the state of our world, the limitations of power and the extent to which the liberal interventionist vision articulated by Tony Blair during the Kosovo war in 1999 - of a world in which states could no longer murder their own people with impunity - lies in shreds.
(13) The thick and tender, rope-like tangle of braised, shredded beef in my fat fist of a burrito was excellent.
(14) Do people not realise that escape often seems impossible when every shred of a person’s personality, autonomy and well-being has been systematically eroded, or when children are involved?
(15) Required to "stay in touch" with Jobcentre Plus and explain what he's been doing since the collapse of RBS, Fred (the Shred) Goodwin might easily face benefit withdrawal.
(16) If the government had the tiniest indication, the tiniest shred of evidence that, not even that I was working for the Russian government, that I was associating with the Russian government, it would be on the front page of the New York Times by lunch time.
(17) The method was found applicable to several dry food materials including nonfat dry milk, dried egg albumin, cocoa, cottonseed flour, wheat flour, and shredded coconut.
(18) And it depends on the social consequences of the spending review standing the test of time better than the claims of fairness that Mr Osborne made in his June budget, claims which were shredded within hours by the Institute for Fiscal Studies .
(19) They proved to appear in case of oblique direction in overrunning and the angle of a shred turned back was directed to the side of wheel rotatory movements, i.e.
(20) (This is a statement that could be picked apart in so many ways that it would resemble a shredded couch after a herd of tigers had gone through by the time we were done with it.)