Usually means: Part of a larger whole.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. piece: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. piece: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. piece: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. piece: Collins English Dictionary
  5. piece: Vocabulary.com
  6. Piece, piece: Wordnik
  7. -piece, piece: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. piece: Wiktionary
  9. piece: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. piece: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. piece: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. piece: Dictionary.com
  13. piece: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. piece: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Piece (album), Piece (manga), Piece (song), Piece: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Piece: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. piece: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. piece: Rhymezone
  19. piece: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. piece: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. PIECE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. piece: Free Dictionary
  23. piece: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. piece: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. piece: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. piece: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Piece (music), piece: Legal dictionary
  3. Piece: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. piece: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. piece: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. PIECE: Acronym Finder
  3. piece: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. piece, piece: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. piece: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. Piece: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  5. the piece: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Piece: Backgammon

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. PIECE (PART), PIECE: French-English Wine Glossary

(Note: See pieced as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
noun:  A single item belonging to a class of similar items.
noun:  (chess) One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished from a pawn; by extension, a similar counter etc. in other games.
noun:  A coin, especially one valued at less than the principal unit of currency.
noun:  An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc.
noun:  An article published in the press.
noun:  (military) An artillery gun.
noun:  (US, colloquial) A gun.
noun:  (US, Canada, colloquial, short for hairpiece) A toupee or wig, especially when worn by a man.
noun:  (Scotland, Ireland, UK, US, dialectal) A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its own; a sandwich or light snack.
noun:  (US, colloquial, vulgar) A sexual encounter; from piece of ass or piece of tail.
noun:  (US, colloquial, mildly vulgar, short for piece of crap/piece of shit) A shoddy or worthless object (usually applied to consumer products like vehicles or appliances).
noun:  (US, slang) A cannabis pipe.
noun:  (baseball, uncountable) Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the opposing team or going foul. Usually used in the past tense with get.
noun:  (dated, sometimes derogatory) An individual; a person.
noun:  (obsolete) A castle; a fortified building.
noun:  (US) A pacifier; a dummy.
noun:  (colloquial) A distance.
noun:  (rowing) A structured practice row, often used for performance evaluation.
noun:  An amount of work to be done at one time; a unit of piece work.
noun:  (slang) An ounce of a recreational drug.
verb:  (transitive, usually with together) To assemble (something real or figurative).
verb:  To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out.
verb:  (slang) To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag.
verb:  (intransitive, often with on, informal, dated, chiefly North Midland US) To eat small quantities of food between meals; to snack; to take small or intermittent bites at a food item.

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