All English words - page 4211

Meanings of Pie-in-the-sky:

phrase

Used 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

idiom

Something 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 …

noun

A 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:

noun

The 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:

noun

The quality or condition of being piebald.

Meanings of Piebalds:

noun

A 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:

noun

A portion of an object or of material, produced by cutting, tearing, or breaking the whole.

Usage examples:

A piece of cheese

verb

Assemble something from parts or pieces.

Usage examples:

The dinosaur was pieced together from 119 bones

Meanings of Piece of cake:

idiom

Any undertaking that is easy to do

Meanings of Piece-by-piece:

noun

A 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:

noun

The 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:

collocation

An 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:

idiom

Infml 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:

idiom

A 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 verb

To 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:

verb

Assemble something from parts or pieces.

Usage examples:

The dinosaur was pieced together from 119 bones

noun

A portion of an object or of material, produced by cutting, tearing, or breaking the whole.

Usage examples:

a piece of cheese

phrasal verb

To 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 Pieceless:

adjective

Without pieces.

Meanings of Piecemaker:

noun

A worker paid according to the number of items produced; a pieceworker.

Meanings of Piecemeal:

adjective

Characterized by unsystematic partial measures taken over a period of time.

Usage examples:

The village is slowly being killed off by piecemeal development

adverb

In an unsystematic way, through partial measures taken over a period of time.

Usage examples:

Many organizations have been built up piecemeal

Meanings of Piecen:

verb

To join or piece together; to repair; specifically to rejoin (broken threads or ends) in spinning. now chiefly english regional.

Meanings of Piecener:

noun

A 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:

noun

A 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:

noun

A 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:

noun

A portion of an object or of material, produced by cutting, tearing, or breaking the whole.

Usage examples:

A piece of cheese

verb

Assemble something from parts or pieces.

Usage examples:

The dinosaur was pieced together from 119 bones

Meanings of Piecewise:

adverb

By or in pieces; by degrees, piecemeal.

Meanings of Piecework:

noun

Work paid for according to the amount produced.

Usage examples:

Workers did piecework at home

Meanings of Piecing:

verb

Assemble something from parts or pieces.

Usage examples:

The dinosaur was pieced together from 119 bones

noun

A portion of an object or of material, produced by cutting, tearing, or breaking the whole.

Usage examples:

a piece of cheese

phrasal verb

To put the parts of something into place

Usage examples:

Archeologists have pieced together fragments of the pottery., investigators are trying to piece tog…