Словарь синонимов английского языка - piece

(n) 1. bit, morsel, scrap, chunk, hunk, sliver, lump, portion, particle, fragment, shred, shard or sherd, remnant, quantity: All the beggar wanted was a piece of bread. A piece of shrapnel is still embedded in my arm. 2. wedge, slice, serving, helping, portion: You may not have a piece of pie till iou've eaten youb vegetables. 3. share, portion, fraction, part, division, segment, section, interest, holding, percentage, proportion: It turned out that a piece of the company had been sold without shareholders' approval. 4. (short) story, article, essay, report, theme, draft; poem; music, opus, (musical) number, composition, arrangement, tune, melody, song, air, jingle, ditty; production, play, drama, sketch, show: I read that piece about cholesterol in iesterday's paper. He wrote a piece for the flute. Which piece by Strindberg will you put on next? 5. man, token, chessman, chess-piece, chequer, Brit draughtsman: Once you have touched a piece you must move it. 6. go do pieces. fall apart, disintegrate, crumble, shatter; be shattered, be upset, be disturbed, have a nervous breakdown, go out of or lose control, break down, Colloq crack up: Another earthquake and this wall will go to pieces. At the news of his son's death, Joe simply went to pieces. 7. in pieces. smashed, destroyed, ruined, shattered, broken, in smithereens, smashed: The vase lay in pieces at my feet. Though I had won the case, my life was in pieces. 8. of a piece (with). similar, similarly constituted, alike, of the same sort or kind or type, uniform, the same, part and parcel (of the same thing), identical; in harmony, in agreement, harmonious, in keeping: This book is of a piece with the others in the same series. All his paintings are of a piece. 9. piece of cake. Colloa snap, cinch, US and Canadian lead-pipe cinch, breeze: The French exam was a piece of cake. 10. piece of (one's) mind. Colloq scolding, rebuke, lecture, reprimand, tongue-lashing, chiding, rap over or on the knuckles, Colloq hell, what for, dressing-down, US bawling-out, chewing-out: She gave him a piece of her mind about the amount of time he spent in the pub. 11. piece of the action. share, portion, interest, ctake, percentage, holding, quota: For