Piece-work

Definition

piece /pi:s/ n ၁။ (usu pl ) (က) အပိုင္း။ အပိုင္းအစ။ 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) ကြဲသြားေသာအရာဝတၳဳမွ အပိုင္း၊ အစ၊ အစိတ္၊ အႁမႊာ၊ အခဲ၊ အမႈန္။ 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) အပိုင္း၊ အစ၊ အခ်ပ္၊ အခဲစသည္ တစ္ခုခု။ 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) (စားဖြယ္) အခ်ပ္၊ အခဲ၊ အတံုးစသည္ တစ္ခု။ He cut her a large piece of bread/cake/meat/cheese. ၃။ (က) ပစၥည္းအမ်ဳိးအမည္တစ္ခု။ a piece of furniture/jewellery/luggage. (ခ) (ေရွ႕တြင္ ပါရိွသည့္ ကိန္းဂဏန္းအတိုင္း အစိတ္အပိုင္း၊ အစုဝင္ စသည္တို႔ျဖင့္ ဖြဲ႕စည္းထားေသာ အစုအဖြဲ႕၏) အစုဝင္ျဖစ္ေသာအရာ။ ပစၥည္း (…မ်ဳိးပါ)။ a jigsaw with 1000 pieces ❍ a 28-piece dinner service ❍ a 50-piece orchestra (ie with 50 players). (ဂ) စစ္တုရင္၊ က်ား၊ ပဆစ္စေသာ ကစားနည္း တစ္ရပ္ရပ္တြင္သံုးေသာ အ႐ုပ္၊ ပို စသည္။ One of the white chess pieces is missing. ၄။ ~ of sth (အႀကံျပဳခ်က္၊ သတင္း၊ သုေတသန လုပ္ငန္း စသည္) တစ္ရပ္၊ တစ္ခု၊ တစ္ခ်က္ စသည္။ a piece of advice/ information/ luck/ news/ research ❍ a fine/brilliant/inspired piece of work. ၅။ ~ (of sth) (က) (အႏုပညာ) လက္ရာ၊ တင္ဆက္မႈ။ 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) ေရးဖြဲ႕ထားေသာ စာ၊ ေဆာင္းပါး တစ္ရပ္။ Did you read Mary Kenny's piece in today's paper? See also SET PIECE ၆။ အေႂကြေစ့။ ဒဂၤါး။ a 50p piece ❍ a five-cent piece. ❏ give sb a piece of one's mind [ IDM ] ( infml ) အားမနာတမ္း ေျပာခ်လိုက္သည္။ ❏ go to pieces [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေျခမကိုင္မိလက္မကိုင္မိ ျဖစ္သြားသည္။ He went completely to pieces when they told him she was dead. ❏ in one piece [ IDM ] ( infml ) မက်ဳိးမကန္း။ They were lucky to get back in one piece. ❏ (all) of a piece with sth [ IDM ] ( fml ) ေရွ႕ေနာက္ ညီၫြတ္သည္။ သင့္တင့္ေလ်ာက္ပတ္သည္။ The new measures are all of a piece with the government's policy. ❏ pick/pull/tear sb to pieces [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေကာင္းေကာင္းသိကၡာခ်သည္။ အျပတ္ႏႊာသည္။ ❏ pick/pull/tear sth to pieces [ IDM ] ( infml ) မညႇာမတာ ေဝဖန္သည္။ ေဆာ္သည္။ ❏ a piece of cake [ IDM ] ( infml ) အလြယ္ေလး။ အေပ်ာ့။ The exam was a piece of cake. ❏ piece sth together [ PHRV ] ၁။ ဆက္စပ္ယူ သည္။ This account of their journey has been pieced together from personal letters and diaries. ၂။ တစ္စခ်င္းဆက္စပ္သည္။ piece together torn scraps of paper in order to read what was written. ❏ piece-work n [U] ပုတ္ျပတ္။

Examples

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