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单词 piece of eight
释义

eight /āt/

noun
  1. The cardinal number next above seven
  2. A symbol representing that number (8, viii, etc)
  3. A set of eight things or people (syllables, leaves, rowers, etc)
  4. An eight-oar boat
  5. (in pl) a race for eight-oar boats
  6. A score of eight points, strokes, tricks, etc
  7. An article of a size denoted by 8
  8. A playing card with eight pips
  9. An eight-cylinder engine or car
  10. The eighth hour after midnight or midday
  11. The age of eight years
adjective
  1. Of the number eight
  2. Eight years old
ORIGIN: OE (Anglian) æhta (WSax eahta); Ger acht, L octō, Gr oktō

eightˈfold adjective and adverb

  1. In eight divisions
  2. Eight times as much
adverb

By eight times as much

eighth /ātth/ adjective

  1. Last of eight
  2. Next after the seventh
  3. Equal to one of eight equal parts
noun
  1. An eighth part
  2. A person or thing in eighth position
  3. An octave (music)
  4. An eighth of an ounce (drug sl)

eighthly /ātthˈli/ adverb

In the eighth place

eightˈsome noun

  1. A group of eight
  2. Eight together
  3. A Scottish reel for eight dancers (also eightsome reel)

eightˈvo noun (pl eightˈvos) and adjective same as octavo

eightˈ-day adjective

Lasting or running for eight days

eightˈfoil noun (heraldry)

An eight-leaved flower

eightˈ-foot adjective

  1. Eight feet in measure (also adverb)
  2. Having the pitch of an open organ-pipe eight feet long, or having that pitch for the lowest note (music)

eighth note noun (music; chiefly N American)

A quaver

eightˈ-hour adjective

Consisting of eight hours or eight working hours

eightˈ-oar adjective

Manned by eight rowers

noun

An eight-oar boat

eightˈpence noun

The value of eight pennies

eightˈpenny adjective

Costing eightpence

eightˈscore noun and adjective

Eight times twenty

eightsˈman noun

One of a crew or team of eight

eightˈ-square adjective

Regularly octagonal

an eight days

A week

behind the eight ball (informal)

In a difficult situation (from the black ball in the game of pool, marked with the number eight, which must not be potted until the end of the game)

figure of eight

A figure shaped like an 8 made in skating, etc

one over the eight (informal)

One (alcoholic) drink too many

piece of eight

An old Spanish coin worth eight reals

piece /pēs/

noun
  1. A part or portion of anything, esp detached
  2. A separate lump, mass or body of any material, considered as an object (in Scots without of following)
  3. A distance
  4. A span of time
  5. A single article
  6. A definite quantity, eg of cloth or paper
  7. A literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic composition
  8. A production, a specimen of work
  9. An example
  10. An exemplification or embodiment
  11. A sandwich or a little bread, buttered or not, esp as a lunch (Scot)
  12. A gun
  13. A portion (obsolete)
  14. A wine cup (obsolete)
  15. A coin
  16. A man in chess, draughts, or other game (in chess sometimes excluding pawns and the king)
  17. A person, now usu (disrespectfully) a woman
transitive verb
  1. To enlarge by adding a piece
  2. To patch
  3. To combine
intransitive verb

To have a between-meal snack (US sl)

combining form

Consisting of a given number of separate parts, pieces, members, etc, as in three-piece suite

ORIGIN: OFr piece, from LL pecia, petium a fragment, a piece of land (thought to be of Celtic (Brythonic) origin); cf patch1, peat2, petty, and Pit- in place names

pieceˈless adjective

Not made of pieces

pieceˈmeal adverb

  1. (meal1in sense of ‘measure’) in pieces
  2. To pieces
  3. Bit by bit
adjective
  1. Done bit by bit
  2. Fragmentary
noun
  1. A small piece
  2. Bit by bit proceeding
transitive verb

To dismember

piecˈen transitive verb (dialect)

To join (esp broken threads in spinning)

piecˈener or piecˈer noun

A person who is employed in a spinning-factory to join broken threads

piece goods plural noun

Textile fabrics made in standard lengths

piece rate noun

A fixed rate paid according to the amount of work done

pieceˈwork noun

Work paid for by the piece or quantity, not by time

pieceˈworker noun

all to pieces or to pieces

  1. Into a state of disintegration or collapse
  2. Through and through, thoroughly (US)

a piece

Each

a piece of

  1. An instance of
  2. A bit of, something of

a piece of cake see under cake

a piece of one's mind

A frank outspoken reprimand

a piece of piss see under piss

go to pieces

  1. To break up entirely (lit and figurative)
  2. To lose completely the ability to cope with the situation

in pieces

In, or to, a broken-up state

of a piece

  1. As if of the same piece, the same in nature
  2. Homogeneous, uniform
  3. In keeping, consistent (with with)

piece of eight see under eight

piece of goods (dialect; derogatory)

A woman

piece of work

  1. A task
  2. A fuss, ado
  3. A person (usu with nasty, etc)

piece out

To eke out

piece together

To put together bit by bit

piece up

  1. To patch up
  2. Perh to incorporate in one's own share (Shakespeare)

say one's piece

To contribute one's opinion

the piece (Scot)

Apiece

to pieces see all to pieces above.
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