Wordcyclopedia | English | Picking Up the Pieces

picking

— noun (= pick) the quantity of a crop that is harvested he sent the first picking of berries to the market it was the biggest peach pick in years — noun the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.)

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up Preposition

— Toward the top or toward the sky. The balloon went up.

up Adjective

— In a high position. The flag is up. — . It was an up day. — optimistic. He is feeling up. — Put in trust, entrusted. It is up to you. — ing, occurring. What’s up? They act like something is up. — . Something is up with him. — Planning, plotting mischief. He is up to something. — ed. It is all up with them.

up Noun

— State of being up, often with down. Life has its ups and downs.

up Verb

— Increase, increment. We upped the dosage.

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the Determiner

— Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist. Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book." — Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special. Are you the John Smith that I went to school with? — Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned The poor are always with us. — Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs. You are the best.

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piece Noun

— A piece is a part of something that can be or has been separated from it. The man cut a piece of meat and a piece of cake for dinner. I own a piece of land in the country. — A piece is one example of a class or set of things. He put a piece of wood on the fire. Can I have a piece of paper to write on? — A piece is something that is made by an artist. The piece of music was beautiful. I thought his earlier pieces were more creative than his more recent stuff. — In board games, a piece is an object that can be moved to mark your position. There are six types of chess pieces in the game of chess: the pawn, the knight, the bishop, the rook, the queen, and the king.

piece Verb

— If you piece something together, you use bring together enough information to understand something. They gathered enough information to piece together the family history. — If you piece something together, you put the pieces together. The scientists moved their shop to an empty parking lot to piece together all the bones.

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