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piece
Synonyms and Antonyms of piece
1
a broken or irregular part of something that often remains incomplete
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a literary, musical, or artistic production
3
a portable weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowder
derringer, forty-five (or .45), gat [slang], handgun, pistol, revolver, rod [slang], roscoe [slang], sidearm, six-gun, six-shooter, zip gun
blunderbuss, breechloader, culverin, fieldpiece, firelock, flintlock, harquebus (or arquebus), matchlock, musket, rifle, shotgun, smoothbore, twenty-two (or .22)
AK-47, assault rifle, assault weapon, automatic, carbine, machine gun, machine pistol, repeater, submachine gun, tommy gun
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something belonging to, due to, or contributed by an individual member of a group
piece of the action
Synonym Discussion of piece
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- they ran only part of the way
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- cut the pie into six portions
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- a puzzle with 500 pieces
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- a structural member
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- the manufacturing division of the company
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- the entertainment section of the newspaper
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- the retired segment of the population
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- only a fragment of the play still exists
piece
Synonyms and Antonyms of piece
to form by putting together parts or materials
carpenter, fashion, forge, frame, hammer, handcraft, manufacture, mold, produce, shape
begin, coin, create, generate, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, invent, originate
constitute, establish, father, found, institute, organize
conceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), design, devise, imagine, think (up)
reassemble, rebuild, reconstruct, redevelop, reedify [British], retrofit
put together
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