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piece
Noun
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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
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If you piece something together, you use bring together enough information to understand something.
They gathered enough information to piece together the family history.
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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.
work
Verb
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If you work, you do a job, usually for money.
My father works at Microsoft.
I got to work at 7:30 each morning.
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If you work you are doing something that needs effort.
I worked on my school paper all night long.
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If somethings works it has done what it was supposed to do.
If my computer didn't work I couldn't type this.
I'm glad our plan worked.
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How something works is how it does what it does.
I would like to know more about how cars work.
The rules here just do not work that way.
work
Noun
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Your work is your job.
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Work is effort it takes to do something. That is, its what makes you tired when you do something hard.
Moving heavy logs takes a lot of work.
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Work is force through a distance (force times distance). This is how much energy you used to move something.
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A work is the product of something, the result of working on it. That is, its something someone has made.
The painting was a great work of art.
Shakespeare wrote many literary works.
pay
Verb
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If you pay, you give money for something.
Bess worked for eight hours and they paid her a hundred dollars.
pay
Noun
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Your pay is money you receive for something.
Go to the office to receive your pay.