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# piece

«piece» in Mova's school dictionary: **a part of something that has been cut, broken or divided…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (piece, pieces); verb (piece together)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A piece is a part of something that has been cut, broken or divided, like a piece of cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piece/#m1)

2) A piece is one single item of something, like a piece of paper or a piece of advice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piece/#m2)

3) A piece is one of the parts of a game or a puzzle, like a chess piece. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piece/#m3)

4) A piece is a work of music, art or writing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piece/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

a unit for counting parts: pieces of candy, pizza, gum; a cake cut into pieces; fractions: equal pieces of a whole; phrases «a piece of», «in one piece», «fall to pieces», «piece of cake» (very easy), «piece together»

### examples

- She had 30 pieces of candy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piece/#x1)
- The pizza is cut into 8 pieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piece/#x2)
- Each friend got 3 pieces of gum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piece/#x3)
- How many pieces are left? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piece/#x4)
- The puzzle has 500 pieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piece/#x5)
- Hand me a piece of paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piece/#x6)
- The vase fell and broke into pieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piece/#x7)
- That test was a piece of cake! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piece/#x8)
- She played a piano piece at the concert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piece/#x9)
- The detective pieced the clues together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piece/#x10)
- "Chop him into pieces," said another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piece/#x11)

### note

A counting word: «pieces of X» counts X. «cut into N pieces» makes equal parts; 1 piece of 8 is one eighth. Trap: the thing is after «of»; «pieces of candy» are candies. «Piece» sounds like «peace» (no war). Uncountable words need it: «a piece of advice», not «an advice».

### In the corpora

- [Knowing this helps you understand why a family's week is planned round a piece of paper on the fridge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/4/)
- [Listening at the door usually gives you only scary half-pieces; asking «Is everything OK?» later works much better.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/10/)
- [It writes an answer piece by piece, each time choosing a likely next word.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/8/)
- [Schools have rules about AI; being open about what an AI did and didn't do on a piece of work is honest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/29-who-you-are-being-wrong-and-learning/16/)
- [Teachers often give a solo to the child most ready for that piece, and many swap solos around during the year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «piece» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piece/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.