<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.</li><li>Synonyms: fragment, scrap, segment, section</li><li>Antonyms: whole</li><li>a quantity of some substance or material forming a single mass or body: a nice piece of lumber.</li><li>a more or less definite portion or quantity of a whole: to cut a blueberry pie into six pieces.</li><li>a particular length, as of certain goods prepared for the market: cloth sold by the piece.</li><li>an amount of work forming a single job: to be paid by the piece and not by the hour.</li><li>an example of workmanship, especially of artistic production, as a picture or a statue: The museum has some interesting pieces by Picasso.</li><li>a literary or journalistic composition, usually short, in prose or verse.</li><li>a literary selection for recitation: Each child had a chance to recite a piece.</li><li>a musical composition.</li><li>one of the parts that, when assembled, form a whole: the pieces of a clock.</li><li>an individual article of a set or collection: a set of dishes containing 100 pieces.</li><li>Games: one of the figures, disks, blocks, or the like, of wood, plastic, ivory, or other material, used in playing a board game.</li><li>(in chess) a king, queen, bishop, knight, or rook; a superior man or figure, as distinguished from a pawn: One of the opening principles in chess is piece development.</li><li>a token, charm, or amulet: a good-luck piece.</li><li>an individual thing of a particular class or kind: a piece of furniture; a piece of drawing paper.</li><li>an example, specimen, or instance of something: a fine piece of workmanship.</li><li>one of the parts into which a thing is destructively divided or broken; a part, fragment, or shred: to tear a letter into pieces.</li><li>Informal: a rifle, pistol, or other small firearm.</li><li>a cannon or other unit of ordnance: Each field piece was drawn by six horses.</li><li>a coin: a five-cent piece.</li><li>Midland and Southern U.S.: a distance: I'm going down the road a piece.</li><li>Chiefly North Midland U.S.: a snack.</li><li>Also called piece of ass. Slang: Vulgar. Usually Disparaging and Offensive. a person, usually a woman, considered as a sexual partner.</li><li>sexual intercourse: He's always looking for a piece of ass.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb:</strong></p><ul><li>(used with or without object) to affect, as by hitting, rocking, or splashing, with a backwash: a powerful cutter backwashing the skiers.</li><li>to clean out (a clogged filter) by reversing the flow of fluid: Backwash the swimming pool's filters regularly.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>