All English words - page 4211
Meanings of Pie-in-the-sky:
phraseUsed to describe or refer to something that is pleasant to contemplate but is very unlikely to be realized.
Usage examples:
Don't throw away a decent offer in pursuit of pie in the sky
idiomSomething good that is unlikely to happen
Usage examples:
I wanted to be a major league baseball player, but i knew it was probably pie in the sky.
Meanings of Piebald:
adjective(of a horse) having irregular patches of two colours, typically black and white.
Usage examples:
The resting caravan, surrounded by happy tousled children, mongrel dogs and piebald ponies grazing …
nounA piebald horse.
Usage examples:
Sturdy ponies that pulled family traps to mass and churns of milk to the creamery, plough horses th…
Meanings of Piebaldism:
nounThe condition of being piebald; specifically (medicine) an inherited (autosomal dominant) condition characterized by a white forelock and reduced or absent pigmentation of the middle part of the face and the ventral surfaces of the body and limbs.
Meanings of Piebaldness:
nounThe quality or condition of being piebald.
Meanings of Piebalds:
nounA piebald horse.
Usage examples:
Sturdy ponies that pulled family traps to mass and churns of milk to the creamery, plough horses th…
adjective(of a horse) having irregular patches of two colours, typically black and white.
Usage examples:
The resting caravan, surrounded by happy tousled children, mongrel dogs and piebald ponies grazing …
Meanings of Piece:
nounA portion of an object or of material, produced by cutting, tearing, or breaking the whole.
Usage examples:
A piece of cheese
verbAssemble something from parts or pieces.
Usage examples:
The dinosaur was pieced together from 119 bones
Meanings of Piece of cake:
idiomAny undertaking that is easy to do
Meanings of Piece-by-piece:
nounA part of something
Usage examples:
A piece of cake/chicken/pizza, the vase lay on the floor in pieces (= broken into small parts)., sh…
Meanings of Piece-de-resistance:
nounThe best and most important or exciting thing, often the last in a series of things
Usage examples:
The pièce de résistance of his stage act was a brilliant barbra streisand impression., the piece de…
Meanings of Piece-of-advice:
collocationAn opinion that someone offers you about what you should do or how you should act in a particular situation
Usage examples:
Can i give you a piece of advice?, he offered a few useful pieces of advice for home buyers.
Meanings of Piece-of-the-action:
idiomInfml a part of the profits or advantages that come from an activity
Usage examples:
When it comes to lawsuits, everyone seems to want a piece of the action.
Meanings of Piece-of-work:
idiomA very unkind or unpleasant person
Usage examples:
It soon becomes clear that minty is rather a piece of work., he is obviously a nasty piece of work …
Meanings of Piece-together:
phrasal verbTo put the parts of something into place
Usage examples:
Archeologists have pieced together fragments of the pottery., investigators are trying to piece tog…
Meanings of Pieced:
verbAssemble something from parts or pieces.
Usage examples:
The dinosaur was pieced together from 119 bones
nounA portion of an object or of material, produced by cutting, tearing, or breaking the whole.
Usage examples:
a piece of cheese
phrasal verbTo put the parts of something into place
Usage examples:
Archeologists have pieced together fragments of the pottery., investigators are trying to piece tog…
Meanings of Piecemaker:
nounA worker paid according to the number of items produced; a pieceworker.
Meanings of Piecemeal:
adjectiveCharacterized by unsystematic partial measures taken over a period of time.
Usage examples:
The village is slowly being killed off by piecemeal development
adverbIn an unsystematic way, through partial measures taken over a period of time.
Usage examples:
Many organizations have been built up piecemeal
Meanings of Piecen:
verbTo join or piece together; to repair; specifically to rejoin (broken threads or ends) in spinning. now chiefly english regional.
Meanings of Piecener:
nounA person, especially a child, employed in a woollen or cotton mill to join together the ends of threads which have broken while being spun or wound.
Meanings of Piecer:
nounA person who pieces something together or patches something up.
Usage examples:
He was responsible for disciplining and paying the piecers on a time rate, so he stood to gain from…
Meanings of Piecers:
nounA person who pieces something together or patches something up.
Usage examples:
He was responsible for disciplining and paying the piecers on a time rate, so he stood to gain from…
Meanings of Pieces:
nounA portion of an object or of material, produced by cutting, tearing, or breaking the whole.
Usage examples:
A piece of cheese
verbAssemble something from parts or pieces.
Usage examples:
The dinosaur was pieced together from 119 bones
Meanings of Piecewise:
adverbBy or in pieces; by degrees, piecemeal.
Meanings of Piecework:
nounWork paid for according to the amount produced.
Usage examples:
Workers did piecework at home
Meanings of Piecing:
verbAssemble something from parts or pieces.
Usage examples:
The dinosaur was pieced together from 119 bones
nounA portion of an object or of material, produced by cutting, tearing, or breaking the whole.
Usage examples:
a piece of cheese
phrasal verbTo put the parts of something into place
Usage examples:
Archeologists have pieced together fragments of the pottery., investigators are trying to piece tog…
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