Piece vs Price - What's the difference?
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A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
A single item belonging to a class of similar items: as, for example, a piece of machinery, a piece of software.
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, title= (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.
* 1959 , (Hans Kmoch), Pawn Power in Chess , I:
A coin, especially one valued at less than the principal unit of currency.
An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc.
An artillery gun.
(US, Canada, colloquial) (short for hairpiece); a toupee or wig, usually when worn by a man.
A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its own; a sandwich or light snack.
* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 46:
(US, colloquial) A gun.
(US, colloquial, vulgar) A sexual encounter; from piece of ass or piece of tail
(US, colloquial, mildly, vulgar) (short for "piece of crap") a shoddy or worthless object, usually applied to consumer products like vehicles or appliances.
(US, slang) A cannabis pipe.
(baseball) 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 got, and never used in the plural.
(dated, sometimes, derogatory) An individual; a person.
* Sir Philip Sidney
* Shakespeare
* Coleridge
(obsolete) A castle; a fortified building.
(US) A pacifier.
(transitive, usually, with together) To assemble (something real or figurative).
* Fuller
To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out .
(slang) To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag.
* 2009 , Gregory J. Snyder, Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York's Urban Underground (page 40)
* 2009 , Scape Martinez, GRAFF: The Art & Technique of Graffiti (page 124)
The cost required to gain possession of something.
* Shakespeare
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, title= The cost of an action or deed.
Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
* Bible, Proverbs xxxi. 10
* Keble
To determine the monetary value of (an item), to put a price on.
(obsolete) To pay the price of, to make reparation for.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ix:
(obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
(colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.
In obsolete terms the difference between piece and price
is that piece is a castle; a fortified building while price is to set a price on; to value; to prize.As nouns the difference between piece and price
is that piece is a part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts while price is the cost required to gain possession of something.As verbs the difference between piece and price
is that piece is to assemble (something real or figurative) while price is to determine the monetary value of (an item), to put a price on.As a proper noun Price is
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protect, rest, ice, compression, and elevation. A common treatment method for sprained joints.piece
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Alternative forms
* peece (obsolete)Noun
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- Pawns, unlike pieces , move only in one direction: forward.
- a sixpenny piece
- My grannie came and gived them all a piece and jam and cups of water then I was to bring them back out to the street and play a game.
- If I had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him.
- Thy mother was a piece of virtue.
- His own spirit is as unsettled a piece as there is in all the world.
- (Spenser)
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoUsage notes
When used as a baseball term, the term is idiomatic in that the baseball is almost never broken into pieces. It is rare in modern baseball for the cover of a baseball to even partially tear loose. In professional baseball, several new, not previously played baseballs are used in each game. It could be argued that the phrase was never meant (not even metaphorically) to refer to breaking the ball into pieces, and that "get a piece of the ball" means the bat contacts only a small area of the ball - in other words, that the ball is hit off-center. In that case "get" would mean "succeed in hitting", not "obtain".Derived terms
* bits and pieces * piecemeal * piecen * piece of cake * piece of eight * piece of the actionSee also
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* chunk * bitVerb
(piec)- These clues allowed us to piece together the solution to the mystery.
- His adversaries pieced themselves together in a joint opposition against him.
- to piece a garment
- (Shakespeare)
- It is incorrect to say that toys tag and masters piece ; toys just do bad tags, bad throw-ups, and bad pieces.
- It is often used to collect other writer's tags, and future plans for bombing and piecing .
Derived terms
* piece together * repiece * unpiece 1000 English basic words ----price
English
Noun
(en noun)- We can afford no more at such a price .
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price .}}
- Her price is far above rubies.
- new treasures still, of countless price
Derived terms
* list price * pool price * price-conscious * price stability * purchase price * reserve price * selling price * shadow price * spot price * starting price * strike price * upset priceVerb
(pric)- Thou damned wight, / The author of this fact, we here behold, / What iustice can but iudge against thee right, / With thine owne bloud to price his bloud, here shed in sight.
- to price eggs