PIECE

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piece I. substantiv

1. (şi fig., lit., muz.) bucată; parte; petic (de pământ), parcelă; fragment;

a piece of water eleşteu, lac;

a piece of work lucru; operă;

a bad piece of business proastă treabă;

a piece of luck un noroc;

a piece of news o veste, o noutate;

piece by piece bucată cu bucată, treptat;

to break to piece s a sparge în bucăţi;

all to pieces complet;

in pieces (spart) în bucăţi;

(all) of a piece in concordanţă cu ceva; de aceeaşi calitate, omogen;

to give smb. a piece of one’s mind a) a spune cuiva părerea sa verde în faţă/ sincer; b) a pune la punct, a beşteli, a dezaproba pe cineva.

2. piesă (dintr-o garnitură etc.);

a piece of furniture o mobilă;

a piece of plate un vas de argint;

(glumeţ) a piece of goods femeiuşcă; bărbat; individ, tip; individă, tipă, tipesă;

by the piece cu bucata; în acord.

3. (amer.) instrument muzical.

4. (mil.) piesă; tun; puşcă; pistol;

piece of ordnance piesă de artilerie.

5. (şah) figură.

6. (şi piece of money) monedă, piesă.

7. (şi piece of painting) tablou, pictură.

8. lucrare, operă, piesă;

a piece of poetry o poezie.

9. butoi (de vin).

10. petic.

11. (şi piece of flesh) (sl.) fată; femeie, femeiuşcă.

piece II. verb tranzitiv

1. a uni într-un tot.

2. a repara, a completa, a mări (adăugând bucăţi).

3. (text.) a înnoda, a înnădi (fir.)

4. to piece down a petici (haine);

to piece on(to) a adăuga la;

to piece out a) a completa; b) a înnădi; a lungi; c) a reconstitui (dovezi, o poveste, o teorie);

to piece together a uni; a aşeza la loc (părţile);

to piece up a cârpi, a pune petic la.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

He held out a small piece of meat.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

Now, you see, Jim, so be as you ARE here, says he, I'll give you a piece of my mind.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

"It is a very strange piece of business," I added; "I must know more about it."

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Platelets are little pieces of blood cells.

(Platelet Disorders, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

A polyp is an extra piece of tissue that grows inside your body.

(Colonic Polyps, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Diseases)

I don’t know what to do and my whole life seems to have gone to pieces.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Van Helsing stepped over and took the pieces from her.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

I have seen many pieces of life, without beginning, without end, without understanding.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

“Yes,” pursued my aunt, “and he has done a pretty piece of business. He has run away. Ah! His sister, Betsey Trotwood, never would have run away.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

A genetic exchange where a piece of one chromosome is transfered to another chromosome.

(Chromosomal Translocation, NCI Thesaurus)

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