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, scrapWords Related to piece cantle, 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 number, opus, composition, workWords Related to piece classic, magnum opus, masterpiece, pièce de résistance, showpiece; model, outline, sketch; étude; canon, corpus, oeuvre

3 a portable weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowder carrying a piece under his coat Synonyms of piece arm, firearm, heat [slang], gun, small armWords Related to piece derringer, forty-five (or .45), gat [slang], handgun, pistol, revolver, rod [slang], roscoe [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 believes his piece of the profits should be higher Synonyms of piece allotment, allowance, cut, end, part, share, portion, proportion, quota, slice, takeWords Related to piece lot, ration; commission, percentage; member, partition, section, segmentNear Antonyms of piece aggregate, composite, compound, pool, sum, total, totality; whole

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, confect, construct, erect, fabricate, make, make up, build, put up, raise, rear, set upWords 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, reedify [British], retrofit; jerry-build, rig (up), throw up; combine, uniteNear 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, separateAntonyms of piece demount, disassemble, dismantle, dismember, knock down, strike, take down, tear down