Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to piece
Participle: pieced
Gerund: piecing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | piece |
| you | piece |
| he;she;it | pieces |
| we | piece |
| you | piece |
| they | piece |
Perfect
| I | have pieced |
| you | have pieced |
| he;she;it | has pieced |
| we | have pieced |
| you | have pieced |
| they | have pieced |
Past
| I | pieced |
| you | pieced |
| he;she;it | pieced |
| we | pieced |
| you | pieced |
| they | pieced |
Pluperfect
| I | had pieced |
| you | had pieced |
| he;she;it | had pieced |
| we | had pieced |
| you | had pieced |
| they | had pieced |
Future
| I | will piece |
| you | will piece |
| he;she;it | will piece |
| we | will piece |
| you | will piece |
| they | will piece |
Future Perfect
| I | will have pieced |
| you | will have pieced |
| he;she;it | will have pieced |
| we | will have pieced |
| you | will have pieced |
| they | will have pieced |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | piece |
| you | piece |
| he;she;it | piece |
| we | piece |
| you | piece |
| they | piece |
Perfect
| I | have pieced |
| you | have pieced |
| he;she;it | have pieced |
| we | have pieced |
| you | have pieced |
| they | have pieced |
Imperfect
| I | pieced |
| you | pieced |
| he;she;it | pieced |
| we | pieced |
| you | pieced |
| they | pieced |
Pluperfect
| I | had pieced |
| you | had pieced |
| he;she;it | had pieced |
| we | had pieced |
| you | had pieced |
| they | had pieced |
Conditional
Present
| I | would piece |
| you | would piece |
| he;she;it | would piece |
| we | would piece |
| you | would piece |
| they | would piece |
Perfect
| I | would have pieced |
| you | would have pieced |
| he;she;it | would have pieced |
| we | would have pieced |
| you | would have pieced |
| they | would have pieced |
Imperative
| you | piece |
| we | Let's piece |
| you | piece |
Verbs conjugated like 'piece'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'piece'
peece,
piecen,
pierce,
depiece,
dice,
ice,
mieve,
mince,
nice,
pace,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1225, "fixed amount, measure, portion," from O.Fr. piece (11c.), from V.L. *pettia, probably from Gaulish (cf. Welsh peth "thing," Breton pez "piece"), from O.Celt. base *pett-. Sense of "portable firearm" first recorded 1581; that of "chessman" is from 1562. Meaning "person regarded as a sex object" is first recorded 1785 (cf. piece of ass, human beings colloquially called piece of flesh from 1593; cf. also L. scortum "bimbo, anyone available for a price," lit. "skin," dim. scortillum "bimbette"). Meaning "a portion of a distance" is from 1612; that of "literary composition" dates from 1533. The verb meaning "to mend by adding pieces" is recorded from c.1380; sense of "to join, unite, put together" is from 1483. Piece of my mind is from 1572. The Mod.Fr. form is reborrowed into Eng. in pièce de résistance (1839), originally "the most substantial dish in a meal." Piece-work dates from 1549. Piece of work "remarkable person" echoes Hamlet. Piece of Eight is the old name for the Sp. dollar (1610) of the value of 8 reals.
2. From Middle English pece, peece, peice, from Old French piece, from Late Latin petia, pettia, possibly from Gaulish *pettyā, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis (“piece, portion, quota”). Compare Welsh peth, Breton pez (“thing”), Irish cuid. Compare French pièce, Portuguese peça, Spanish pieza, Italian pezza, Italian pezzo.
Sample Sentences
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[...] and for her predictions of fair winds and fine weather (all wrong, or I should n't be half so fond of her ); and for the ten thousand small fragments of genuine womanly tact, by which, without piecing them elaborately together, and patching them up into shape and form and case and pointed application, she nevertheless did plainly show that all young mothers on one side of the Atlantic were near [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)