piece
/piːs/ noun [C]Translation
AMOUNT/PART › an amount of something, or a part of something
parça
a piece of paper/wood She cut the flan into eight pieces. Some of the pieces seem to be missing. These shoes are falling to pieces (= breaking into pieces). 1259ONE › one of a particular type of thing
parça, kısım
a useful piece of equipment It's a beautiful piece of furniture.1256SOME › some of a particular type of thing
parça kısım, bölüm
a piece of news/information Can I give you a piece of advice?12581259ART/WRITING, ETC › an example of artistic, musical, or written work
yapıt, parça, eser
There was an interesting piece on alternative medicine in the paper yesterday. He's got two pieces on show in the Summer exhibition.1340 ten-/twenty-, etc pence piece › a coin with a value of ten/twenty, etc pence (= British money)
on/yirmi pens; madenî para
Have you got any twenty-pence pieces for the parking meter?1405be a piece of cake informal › to be very easy
çok kolay olmak; çocuk oyuncağı olmak
The test was a piece of cake.1784give sb a piece of your mind informal › to speak angrily to someone because they have done something wrong
fırçalamak, akıl vermek, hatasını azarlayarak yüzüne vurmak
If he does that again I'm going to give him a piece of my mind.1143go/fall to pieces › If someone goes to pieces, they become so upset that they cannot control their feelings or think clearly.
→ See also set-piecekendini kaybetmek/dağıtmak, kendinden geçmek
He went to pieces when his mother died.1140597(Definition of piece noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish
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