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piece

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of piece

1 a broken or irregular part of something that often remains incomplete
  • A piece of stone fell from the crumbling wall.
Synonyms of piece

bit, fraction, fragment, scrap
Words Related to piece

shred, tatter

end, leftover, oddment, remainder, remnant, stub

portion, section, segment

chip, flake, shard, shatter, shiver, sliver, splinter

clipping, paring, shaving

atom, crumb, dribble, fleck, flyspeck, grain, granule, molecule, morsel, mote, nubbin, nugget, particle, patch, scruple, snip, snippet, speck, tittle
2 a literary, musical, or artistic production
  • presented a new interpretation of the piece by Mozart
Synonyms of piece

composition, number, opus, work
Words Related to piece

classic, magnum opus, masterpiece, pièce de résistance, showpiece

model, outline, sketch
3 a portable weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowder
  • set the safety on the piece
Synonyms of piece

arm, firearm, gun, small arm
Words Related to piece

derringer, forty-five (or .45), gat [slang], handgun, pistol, revolver, rod [slang], sidearm, six-gun, six-shooter, zip gun

self-loader, semiautomatic

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

speargun
4 something belonging to, due to, or contributed by an individual member of a group
  • Ben believes his piece of the profits should be higher.
Synonyms of piece

allotment, allowance, cut, end, part, portion, proportion, quota, share, slice, take
Words Related to piece

lot, ration

commission, percentage

member, partition, section, segment
Near Antonyms of piece

aggregate, composite, compound, pool, sum, total, totality

whole

Synonym Discussion of piece

part, portion, piece, member, division, section, segment, fragment mean something less than the whole. part is a general term appropriate when indefiniteness is required.
    • they ran only part of the way
portion implies an assigned or allotted part.
    • cut the pie into six portions
piece applies to a separate or detached part of a whole.
    • a puzzle with 500 pieces
member suggests one of the functional units composing a body.
    • a structural member
division applies to a large or diversified part.
    • the manufacturing division of the company
section applies to a relatively small or uniform part.
    • the entertainment section of the newspaper
segment applies to a part separated or marked out by or as if by natural lines of cleavage.
    • the retired segment of the population
fragment applies to a part produced by or as if by breaking off.
    • only a fragment of the play still exists

piece

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of piece

to form by putting together parts or materials
  • You might want to piece together a quilt from those odd patches of cloth.
Synonyms of piece

assemble, build, confect, construct, erect, fabricate, make, make up, put up, raise, rear, set up
Words Related to piece

carpenter, fashion, forge, frame, hammer, handcraft, manufacture, mold, produce, shape

prefabricate

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, retrofit

jerry-build, rig (up), throw up

combine, unite
Phrases Synonymous with piece

put together
Near Antonyms of piece

demolish, destroy, devastate, flatten, level, pull down, pulverize, raze, ruin, ruinate, shatter, smash, wreck

blow up, explode

detach, disengage

disconnect, disjoin, disunite, divide, separate
Antonyms of piece

demount, disassemble, dismantle, dismember, knock down, strike, take down, tear down

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