(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.
Sliver
Definition:
(v. t.) To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.
(n.) A long piece cut ot rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
(n.) A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning.
(n.) Bait made of pieces of small fish. Cf. Kibblings.
Example Sentences:
(1) Once in the mountains, we were immediately careering along slivers of swerving tarmac under a crystal-blue sky.
(2) The slivers of muscle grow between pieces of Velcro and flex and contract as they develop.
(3) Given their ages (Pacquiao is 36), it was not a total surprise that neither of them could sustain the quality of the exchanges or the vigour of their past over the course of 12 rounds, although there were slivers of magic from both.
(4) Slivers of articular cartilage were stored in Ham's medium, plasma, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, and dimethyl sulphoxide at 0, -20, 4, and 38C.
(5) But in just a tiny sliver of its history - the last few thousand years - the patterns of vegetation altered much faster than before.
(6) All the foreign bodies evaluated (lead and plastic pellets, pieces of wire, nails, needles, small fragments of rock and glass, wooden slivers, surgical sponges and surgical threads) were detectable with ultrasound.
(7) • House Republicans passed or planned to pass at least 11 mini spending bills to fund slivers of government.
(8) But visible change has accelerated rapidly in the past few thousand years – a tiny sliver of the Earth’s history.
(9) As I prepared to make tracks, Charlie Meckna pointed up at some slivers of grey cloud that hung in the vast powder-blue sky.
(10) There was little cinching of the waist, and almost no flashing of leg; sex appeal came through the element of surprise, as the designer put it backstage, with unexpected slivers of skin shown at the back of a dress.
(11) For people with busy lives Slivers of Time is a website that allows you to show volunteer-seeking organisations the precise hours you are free and would like to help organisations in your local area.
(12) Huhhhhhhhh,” goes another, when the drowsy, pitched-down vocal of DOEP drops in, a sliver of R&B squashed under a hobnailed boot.
(13) "We believe scale will be an increasing source of competitive advantage in both the confectionery category and the global food business as a whole," said Rosenfeld, who pointed out that the tie-up will allow Kraft to become the world's leading confectionery company with a market share of 14.8%, a sliver higher than its US rival Mars, which recently bought Wrigley's chewing gum to take its share to 14.6%.
(14) Far from being a straight-up sci-fi, it adds a dash of Scandi-noir, a pinch of thriller and the occasional sliver of black humour into the mix.
(15) And, whatever happens to nature, it is our own highly complex interconnected society, built on a lucky period of stable climate during a tiny sliver of planetary time, that looks most at risk.
(16) 12 cords were cut with scissors, and 4 with a sharpened sliver of reed.
(17) An earlier version said that Holyrood controls only a small slither, rather than sliver, of its own spending.
(18) With his teeth caked in slivers of cola nuts, he said he had tried to board earlier convoys but there had not been enough space.
(19) When an attempt was made to remove the screw 12 weeks after its insertion, the screw broke at its neck releasing several small slivers of metal into the joint.
(20) They can even say Obama only beat Romney by 50% to 48% – a sliver that only grows large in the undemocratic electoral college.