a piece of cake

US pronunciation

American sounda piece of cake

apieceofcake

Syllables: 4 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Final e often stays silent

a - piece - of - cake -> a piece of cake

Myanmar meaning

Full entry

piece /pi:s/ n

၁။ (usu pl ) (က) အပိုင်း။ အပိုင်းအစ။ He lost one of the pieces of his model engine. ❍ He took the clock to pieces. ❍ The furniture is delivered in pieces and you have to assemble it yourself. ❍ The bridge was dismantled piece by piece.
(ခ) ကွဲသွားသောအရာဝတ္ထုမှ အပိုင်း၊ အစ၊ အစိတ်၊ အမြွှာ၊ အခဲ၊ အမှုန်။ The vase broke/shattered into a thousand pieces. ❍ The cup lay in pieces on the floor. ❍ hack/pull/rip sth to pieces ❍ The boat was smashed, to peices on the rocks.
၂။ ~ (of sth) (က) အပိုင်း၊ အစ၊ အချပ်၊ အခဲစသည် တစ်ခုခု။ a piece of chalk ❍ a piece of paper ❍ buy a piece of glass to fit the window frame ❍ put another piece of wood on the fire ❍ get a piece of grit in one's eye. (ခ) (စားဖွယ်) အချပ်၊ အခဲ၊ အတုံးစသည် တစ်ခု။ He cut her a large piece of bread/cake/meat/cheese.
၃။ (က) ပစ္စည်းအမျိုးအမည်တစ်ခု။ a piece of furniture/jewellery/luggage. (ခ) (ရှေ့တွင် ပါရှိသည့် ကိန်းဂဏန်းအတိုင်း အစိတ်အပိုင်း၊ အစုဝင် စသည်တို့ဖြင့် ဖွဲ့စည်းထားသော အစုအဖွဲ့၏) အစုဝင်ဖြစ်သောအရာ။ ပစ္စည်း (…မျိုးပါ)။ a jigsaw with 1000 pieces ❍ a 28-piece dinner service ❍ a 50-piece orchestra (ie with 50 players).
(ဂ) စစ်တုရင်၊ ကျား၊ ပဆစ်စသော ကစားနည်း တစ်ရပ်ရပ်တွင်သုံးသော အရုပ်၊ ပို စသည်။ One of the white chess pieces is missing.
၄။ ~ of sth (အကြံပြုချက်၊ သတင်း၊ သုတေသန လုပ်ငန်း စသည်) တစ်ရပ်၊ တစ်ခု၊ တစ်ချက် စသည်။ a piece of advice/ information/ luck/ news/ research ❍ a fine/brilliant/inspired piece of work.
၅။ ~ (of sth) (က) (အနုပညာ) လက်ရာ၊ တင်ဆက်မှု။ a piece of music/poetry/sculpture ❍ In some ways this piece is more a more a musical comedy than a ballet. See also MUSEUM PIECE, PARTY PIECE (ခ) ရေးဖွဲ့ထားသော စာ၊ ဆောင်းပါး တစ်ရပ်။ Did you read Mary Kenny's piece in today's paper? See also SET PIECE
၆။ အကြွေစေ့။ ဒင်္ဂါး။ a 50p piece ❍ a five-cent piece.
❏ give sb a piece of one's mind [IDM ] (infml ) အားမနာတမ်း ပြောချလိုက်သည်။
❏ go to pieces [IDM ] (infml ) ခြေမကိုင်မိလက်မကိုင်မိ ဖြစ်သွားသည်။ He went completely to pieces when they told him she was dead.
❏ in one piece [IDM ] (infml ) မကျိုးမကန်း။ They were lucky to get back in one piece.
❏ (all) of a piece with sth [IDM ] (fml ) ရှေ့နောက် ညီညွတ်သည်။ သင့်တင့်လျောက်ပတ်သည်။ The new measures are all of a piece with the government's policy.
❏ pick/pull/tear sb to pieces [IDM ] (infml ) ကောင်းကောင်းသိက္ခာချသည်။ အပြတ်နွှာသည်။
❏ pick/pull/tear sth to pieces [IDM ] (infml ) မညှာမတာ ဝေဖန်သည်။ ဆော်သည်။
❏ a piece of cake [IDM ] (infml ) အလွယ်လေး။ အပျော့။ The exam was a piece of cake.
❏ piece sth together [PHRV ]
၁။ ဆက်စပ်ယူ သည်။ This account of their journey has been pieced together from personal letters and diaries.
၂။ တစ်စချင်းဆက်စပ်သည်။ piece together torn scraps of paper in order to read what was written.
❏ piece-work n [U] ပုတ်ပြတ်။

More examples

[piece of] : I’ve used four pieces of paper already.
Power tools can be expensive pieces of equipment.
A piece of work/writing/research
A piece of nonsense
A piece of music
A piece of information/advice/news
He divided the dough into four pieces.
[piece of] : The longest piece of wood was over four metres.
Can I offer you another piece of cake?
A piece of land
I didn’t expect the furniture to arrive in pieces.
[take something to pieces] : We had to take the bed to pieces to get it down the stairs.
This vase is a particularly beautiful piece.
[piece of] : A piece of music/sculpture/poetry
My search began after reading a piece in the Daily Mirror.
[write/do a piece on/about something] : He had previously written an investigative piece about the killings.
Chess pieces
A ten-pence piece
Pieces of silver

Synonyms

part, portion, section, quantity, member, part of a set, part of the pack, bit, slice, cut, chunk, a good way, a long way, allotment, amount, arrangement, article, assemble, bite, biter, case, combine, compose, composition, create, creation, discourse, dissertation, division, dole, end, end of rainbow, engraving, example, exposition, far, far off, far piece, far-removed, fix, fraction, fragment, gob, good ways, gulper, half, hunk, icon, instance, interest, iota, item, join, length, lines, lot, lump, make, mend, middle of nowhere, moiety, morsel, mouthful, music, occurrence, painting, paper, parcel, patch, percentage, photograph, piecer, print, production, put together, quota, repair, restore, sample, scrap, segment, share, shred, sketch, smithereen, song, specimen, statue, study, taster, theme, thesis, treatise, treatment, unite, vignette, wedge, work, writing

Antonyms

break, damage, destroy, destruction, disperse, divide, entirety, hurt, ruin, scatter, separate, whole