Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 61
Picoline (n.) (Chem.) Any one of three isometric bases ({C6H7N) related to pyridine, and obtained from bone oil, acrolein ammonia, and coal-tar naphtha, as colorless mobile liquids of strong odor; -- called also methyl pyridine.
Picotee (n.) Alt. of Picotine.
Picotine (n.) (Bot.) A variety of carnation having petals of a light color variously dotted and spotted at the edges.
Picquet (n.) See Piquet.
Piquet (n.) A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside. [Written also picket and picquet.]
Picra (n.) (Med.) The powder of aloes with canella, formerly officinal, employed as a cathartic.
Picrate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of picric acid.
Picric (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, A strong organic acid (called picric acid), intensely bitter.
Note: Picric acid is obtained by treating phenol with strong nitric acid, as a brilliant yellow crystalline substance, C6H2(NO2)3.OH. It is used in dyeing silk and wool, and also in the manufacture of explosives, as it is very unstable when heated. Called also trinitrophenol, and formerly carbazotic acid.
Picrite (n.) (Min.) A dark green igneous rock, consisting largely of chrysolite, with hornblende, augite, biotite, etc.
Picrolite (n.) (Min.) A fibrous variety of serpentine.
Picromel (n.) (Old Chem.) A colorless viscous substance having a bitter-sweet taste.
Note: It was formerly supposed to be the essential principle of the bile, but is now known to be a mixture, principally of salts of glycocholic and taurocholic acids.
Picrotoxin (n.) (Chem.) A bitter white crystalline substance found in the cocculus indicus. It is a peculiar poisonous neurotic and intoxicant, and consists of a mixture of several neutral substances.
Picryl (n.) (Chem.) The hypothetical radical of picric acid, analogous to phenyl.
Pictish (a.) Of or pertaining to Picts; resembling the Picts. "The Pictish peer." -- Byron.
Pictograph (n.) A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea. -- Pic`to*graph"ic, a.
Pictograph (n.) A graphic character used in picture writing.
Pictogram
Pictograph
(Or "pictograph") A symbol which is a picture that represents an object or concept, e.g. a picture of an envelope used to represent an e-mail message.
Pictograms are common in everyday life, e.g. signs in public places or roads, whereas the term "{icon" is specific to interfaces on computers or other electronic devices.
Pictograms are the most common kind of ideogram (symbols representing concepts), the other kind are not pictures but are conventions. (2014-07-30)
Pictorial (a.) Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. "Pictorial rhetoric." -- Ruskin. -- Pic*to"ri*al*ly, adv. Pictoric
Pictorial (a.) Pertaining to or consisting of pictures; "pictorial perspective"; "pictorial records" [syn: pictorial, pictural].
Pictorial (a.) Evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description" [syn: graphic, lifelike, pictorial, vivid].
Pictorial (n.) A periodical (magazine or newspaper) containing many pictures.
Pictoric (a.) Alt. of Pictorical.
Pictorical (a.) Pictorial. [Obs.]
Picts (n. pl.) (Ethnol.) A race of people of uncertain origin, who inhabited Scotland in early times.
Pictura (n.) (Zool.) Pattern of coloration.
Picturable (a.) Capable of being pictured, or represented by a picture.
Pictural (a.) Pictorial. [R.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Pictural (n.) A picture. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Pictural (a.) Pertaining to or consisting of pictures; "pictorial perspective"; "pictorial records" [syn: pictorial, pictural].
Picture (n.) The art of painting; representation by painting. [Obs.]
Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture. -- Sir H. Wotton.
Picture (n.) A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure; a model.
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects. -- Bacon.
The young king's picture . . . in virgin wax. -- Howell.
Picture (n.) An image or resemblance; a representation, either to the eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings vividly to mind some other thing; as, a child is the picture of his father; the man is the picture of grief.
My eyes make pictures when they are shut. -- Coleridge.
Note: Picture is often used adjectively, or in forming self-explaining compounds; as, picture book or picture-book, picture frame or picture-frame, picture seller or picture-seller, etc.
Animated picture, A moving picture.
Picture gallery, A gallery, or large apartment, devoted to the exhibition of pictures.
Picture red, A rod of metal tube fixed to the walls of a room, from which pictures are hung.
Picture writing. (a) The art of recording events, or of expressing messages, by means of pictures representing the actions or circumstances in question. -- Tylor.
Picture writing. (b) The record or message so represented; as, the picture writing of the American Indians.
Syn: Picture, Painting.
Usage: Every kind of representation by drawing or painting is a picture, whether made with oil colors, water colors, pencil, crayons, or India ink; strictly, a painting is a picture made by means of colored paints, usually applied moist with a brush.
Pictured (imp. & p. p.) of Picture.
Picturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Picture.
Picture (v. t.) To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind. "I . . . do picture it in my mind." -- Spenser.
I have not seen him so pictured. -- Shak.
Picture (n.) A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface; "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them" [syn: picture, image, icon, ikon].
Picture (n.) Graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface; "a small painting by Picasso"; "he bought the painting as an investment"; "his pictures hang in the Louvre" [syn: painting, picture].
Picture (n.) A clear and telling mental image; "he described his mental picture of his assailant"; "he had no clear picture of himself or his world"; "the events left a permanent impression in his mind" [syn: mental picture, picture, impression].
Picture (n.) A situation treated as an observable object; "the political picture is favorable"; "the religious scene in England has changed in the last century" [syn: picture, scene].
Picture (n.) Illustrations used to decorate or explain a text; "the dictionary had many pictures" [syn: picture, pictorial matter].
Picture (n.) A form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location" [syn: movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick].
Picture (n.) The visible part of a television transmission; "they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone" [syn: video, picture].
Picture (n.) A graphic or vivid verbal description; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"; "the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters" [syn: word picture, word-painting, delineation, depiction, picture, characterization, characterisation].
Picture (n.) A typical example of some state or quality; "the very picture of a modern general"; "she was the picture of despair."
Picture (n.) A representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material [syn: photograph, photo, exposure, picture, pic].
Picture (v.) Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy" [syn: visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image].
Picture (v.) Show in, or as in, a picture; "This scene depicts country life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting" [syn: picture, depict, render, show].
Image
Picture
Data representing a two-dimensional scene. A digital image is composed of pixels arranged in a rectangular array with a certain height and width. Each pixel may consist of one or more bits of information, representing the brightness of the image at that point and possibly including colour information encoded as RGB triples.
Images are usually taken from the real world via a digital camera, frame grabber, or scanner; or they may be generated by computer, e.g. by ray tracing software.
See also image formats, image processing.
(1994-10-21)
Image
Picture
The image (or range) of a function is the set of values obtained by applying the function to all elements of its domain. So, if f : D -> C then the set f(D) = \{ f(d) | d in D \ is the image of D under f. The image is a subset of C, the codomain.
(2000-01-19)
Picture, (n.) A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.
"Behold great Daubert's picture here on view -- Taken from Life." If that description's true, Grant, heavenly Powers, that I be taken, too. Jali Hane
Pictured (a.) Furnished with pictures; represented by a picture or pictures; as, a pictured scene.
Pictured (a.) Seen in the mind as a mental image; "the glory of his envisioned future"; "the snow-covered Alps pictured in her imagination"; "the visualized scene lacked the ugly details of real life" [syn: envisioned, pictured, visualized, visualised].
Pictured (a.) Represented graphically by sketch or design or lines [syn: depicted, pictured, portrayed].
Picturer (n.) One who makes pictures; a painter. [R.] -- Fuller.
Picturesque (a.) Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language.
What is picturesque as placed in relation to the beautiful and the sublime? It is . . . the characteristic pushed into a sensible excess. -- De Quincey. -- Pic`tur*esque"ly, adv. -- Pic`tur*esque"ness, n.
Compare: Colorful
Colorful (a.) Having striking color. Opposite of colorless.
Note: [Narrower terms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing; prismatic; psychedelic; red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled].
Syn: colourful.
Colorful (a.) Striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious; flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty; picturesque].
Colorful (a.) Having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey; as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and monochrome.
Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown; amethyst; auburn, reddish-brown; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden; azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome; blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue; blushful, blush-colored, rosy; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy; brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; canary, canary-yellow; caramel, caramel brown; carnation; chartreuse; chestnut; dun; earth-colored, earthlike; fuscous; green, greenish, light-green, dark-green; jade, jade-green; khaki; lavender, lilac; mauve; moss green, mosstone; motley, multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured; mousy, mouse-colored; ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive; orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish; purple, violet, purplish; red, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red; rust, rusty, rust-colored; snuff, snuff-brown, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown; sorrel, brownish-orange; stone, stone-gray; straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured; tan; tangerine; tawny; ultramarine; umber; vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red; yellow, yellowish; yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; blae bluish-black or gray-blue); coral; creamy; cress green, cresson, watercress; hazel; honey, honey-colored; hued(postnominal); magenta; maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green; sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark, light.]
Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
Picturesque (a.) Suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture; "a picturesque village."
Picturesque (a.) Strikingly expressive; "a picturesque description of the rainforest."
Picturesquish (a.) Somewhat picturesque. [R.]
Picturized (imp. & p. p.) of Picturize.
Picturizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Picturize.
Picturize (v. t.) [R.] To picture.
Picturize (v. t.) [R.] To adorn with pictures.
Picul (n.) A commercial weight varying in different countries and for different commodities. In Borneo it is 1355/8 lbs.; in China and Sumatra, 1331/2 lbs.; in Japan, 1331/3 lbs.; but sometimes 130 lbs., etc. Called also, by the Chinese, tan. [Written also pecul, and pecal.]
Picul (n.) A unit of weight used in some parts of Asia; approximately equal to 133 pounds (the load a grown man can carry).
Piculet (n.) (Zool.) Any species of very small woodpeckers of the genus Picumnus and allied genera. Their tail feathers are not stiff and sharp at the tips, as in ordinary woodpeckers.
Piculet (n.) Small woodpeckers of South America and Africa and East Indies having soft rounded tail feathers.
Pici (prop. n. pl.) [NL., fr. L. picus a woodpecker.] (Zool.) A division of birds including the woodpeckers and wrynecks.
Picus (n.) (Zool.) A genus of woodpeckers, including some of the common American and European species.
Piddled (imp. & p. p.) of Piddle.
Piddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Piddle.
Piddle (v. i.) To deal in trifles; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important. -- Ascham.
Piddle (v. i.) To be squeamishly nice about one's food. -- Swift.
Piddle (v. i.) To urinate; -- child's word.
Piddle (n.) Liquid excretory product; "there was blood in his urine"; "the child had to make water" [syn: urine, piss, pee, piddle, weewee, water].
Piddle (v.) Waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently [syn: piddle, wanton, wanton away, piddle away, trifle].
Piddle (v.) Eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug" [syn: make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water].
Piddler (n.) One who piddles.
Peddling (a.) Hawking; acting as a
peddler.
Peddling (a.) Petty; insignificant; trifling; paltry; piddling;
-- now less
common than piddling. "The miserable remains of a peddling commerce." --
Burke.
Syn: petty; insignificant; trifling; paltry; piddling.
Piddling (a.) Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons and things.
The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. -- Milton.
Piddling (a.) (Informal) Small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial].
Piddock (n.) (Zool.) Any species of Pholas; a pholad. See Pholas.
Piddock (n.) Marine bivalve that bores into rock or clay or wood by means of saw-like shells.
Pi (n.) (Print.) A mass of type confusedly mixed or unsorted. [Written also pie.]
Pi (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Pied; p. pr. & vb. n. Pieing.] (Print.) To put into a mixed and disordered condition, as type; to mix and disarrange the type of; as, to pi a form. [Written also pie.]
Pie (n.) An article of food consisting of paste baked with something in it or under it; as, chicken pie; venison pie; mince pie; apple pie; pumpkin pie.
Pie (n.) See Camp, n., 5. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Pie crust, The paste of a pie.
Pie (n.) (Zool.) A magpie.
Pie (n.) (Zool.) Any other species of the genus Pica, and of several allied genera. [Written also pye.]
Pie (n.) (R. C. Ch.) The service book.
Pie (n.) (Pritn.) Type confusedly mixed. See Pi.
By cock and pie, An adjuration equivalent to "by God and the service book." -- Shak.
Tree pie (Zool.), Any Asiatic bird of the genus Dendrocitta, allied to the magpie.
Wood pie. (Zool.) See French pie, under French.
Pie (v. t.) See Pi.
Compare: Camp
Camp (n.) The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc. -- Shak.
Camp (n.) A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner.
Forming a camp in the neighborhood of Boston. -- W. Irving.
Camp (n.) A single hut or shelter; as, a hunter's camp.
Camp (n.) The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc.
The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight. -- Macaulay.
Camp (n.) (Agric.) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; -- called also burrow and pie. [Prov. Eng.]
Camp (n.) [Cf. OE. & AS. camp contest, battle. See champion.] An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England. -- Halliwell.
Camp bedstead, A light bedstead that can be folded up onto a small space for easy transportation.
Camp ceiling (Arch.), A kind ceiling often used in attics or garrets, in which the side walls are inclined inward at the top, following the slope of the rafters, to meet the plane surface of the upper ceiling.
Camp chair, A light chair that can be folded up compactly for easy transportation; the seat and back are often made of strips or pieces of carpet.
Camp fever, Typhus fever.
Camp follower, A civilian accompanying an army, as a sutler, servant, etc.
Camp meeting, A religious gathering for open-air preaching, held in some retired spot, chiefly by Methodists. It usually last for several days, during which those present lodge in tents, temporary houses, or cottages.
Camp stool, The same as camp chair, except that the stool has no back.
Flying camp (Mil.), A camp or body of troops formed for rapid motion from one place to another. --Farrow.
To pitch (a) Camp, To set up the tents or huts of a camp.
To strike camp, To take down the tents or huts of a camp.
Pie (n.) Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top
Pie (n.) A prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages [syn: Proto-Indo European, PIE].
PIE, () Personal Interactive Electronics [division] (Apple).
PIE, () Position Independent Executable.
PIE, () A language from CMU similar to Actus.
(1994-11-29)
PIE, (n.) An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.
Cold pie was highly esteemed by the remains.
Rev. Dr. Mucker
(in a funeral sermon over a British nobleman)
Cold pie is a detestable American comestible.
That's why I'm done -- or undone -- So far from that dear London.
(from the headstone of a British nobleman in Kalamazoo)
Piebald (a.) Having spots and patches of black and white, or other colors; mottled; pied. "A piebald steed of Thracian strain." -- Dryden.
Piebald (a.) Fig.: Mixed. "Piebald languages." -- Hudibras.
Piebald (a.) Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies" [syn: motley, calico, multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi-colour, multicolored, multi-colored, multicoloured, multi-coloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured]
Piece (n.) A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piece of sugar; to break in pieces.
Bring it out piece by piece. -- Ezek. xxiv. 6.
Piece (n.) A definite portion or quantity, as of goods or work; as, a piece of broadcloth; a piece of wall paper.
Piece (n.) Any one thing conceived of as apart from other things of the same kind; an individual article; a distinct single effort of a series; a definite performance ; especially:
Piece (n.) A literary or artistic composition; as, a piece of poetry, music, or statuary.
Piece (n.) A musket, gun, or cannon; as, a battery of six pieces; a following piece.
Piece (n.) A coin; as, a sixpenny piece; -- formerly applied specifically to an English gold coin worth 22 shillings.
Piece (n.) A fact; an item; as, a piece of news; a piece of knowledge.
Piece (n.) An individual; -- applied to a person as being of a certain nature or quality; often, but not always, used slightingly or in contempt. "If I had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him." -- Sir P. Sidney.
Thy mother was a piece of virtue. -- Shak.
His own spirit is as unsettled a piece as there is in all the world. -- Coleridge.
Piece (n.) (Chess) One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn.
Piece (n.) A castle; a fortified building. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Of a piece, Of the same sort, as if taken from the same whole; like; -- sometimes followed by with. -- Dryden.
Piece of eight, The Spanish piaster, formerly divided into eight reals.
To give a piece of one's mind to, To speak plainly, bluntly, or severely to (another). -- Thackeray.
Piece broker, One who buys shreds and remnants of cloth to sell again.
Piece goods, Goods usually sold by pieces or fixed portions, as shirtings, calicoes, sheetings, and the like.
Pieced (imp. & p. p.) of Piece.
Piecing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Piece.
Piece (v. t.) To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; as, to piece a garment; -- often with out. -- Shak.
Piece (v. t.) To unite; to join; to combine. -- Fuller.
His adversaries . . . pieced themselves together in a joint opposition against him. -- Fuller.
Piece (v. i.) To unite by a coalescence of parts; to fit together; to join. "It pieced better." --Bacon.
Piece (n.) A separate part of a whole; "an important piece of the evidence."
Piece (n.) An item that is an instance of some type; "he designed a new piece of equipment"; "she bought a lovely piece of china."
Piece (n.) A portion of a natural object; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite" [syn: part, piece].
Piece (n.) A musical work that has been created; "the composition is written in four movements" [syn: musical composition, opus, composition, piece, piece of music].
Piece (n.) An instance of some kind; "it was a nice piece of work"; "he had a bit of good luck" [syn: piece, bit].
Piece (n.) An artistic or literary composition; "he wrote an interesting piece on Iran"; "the children acted out a comic piece to amuse the guests."
Piece (n.) A portable gun; "he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster" [syn: firearm, piece, small-arm].
Piece (n.) A serving that has been cut from a larger portion; "a piece of pie"; "a slice of bread" [syn: piece, slice].
Piece (n.) A distance; "it is down the road a piece."
Piece (n.) A work of art of some artistic value; "this store sells only objets d'art"; "it is not known who created this piece" [syn: objet d'art, art object, piece].
Piece (n.) A period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition; "he was here for a little while"; "I need to rest for a piece"; "a spell of good weather"; "a patch of bad weather" [syn: while, piece, spell, patch].
Piece (n.) A share of something; "a slice of the company's revenue" [syn: slice, piece].
Piece (n.) Game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games; "he taught me to set up the men on the chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage" [syn: man, piece].
Piece (v.) To join or unite the pieces of; "patch the skirt" [syn: patch, piece].
Piece (v.) Create by putting components or members together; "She pieced a quilt"; "He tacked together some verses"; "They set up a committee" [syn: assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together] [ant: break apart, break up, disassemble, dismantle, take apart].
Piece (v.) Join during spinning; "piece the broken pieces of thread, slivers, and rovings."
Piece (v.) Eat intermittently; take small bites of; "He pieced at the sandwich all morning"; "She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles" [syn: nibble, pick, piece].
Piece (v.) Repair by adding pieces; "She pieced the china cup" [syn: piece, patch].
Pieceless (a.) Not made of pieces; whole; entire.
Piecely (adv.) In pieces; piecemeal. [Obs.]
Piecemeal (n.) A fragment; a scrap. -- R. Vaughan.
Piecemeal (adv.) 一件件地，逐個地；逐漸地；零碎地； 成碎片地 In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." -- Chapman.
The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. -- Tennyson.
Piecemeal (adv.) Piece by piece; by little and little in succession.
Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. -- Pope.
Piecemeal (a.) 一件件的，逐個的；逐漸的；零碎的 Made up of parts or pieces; single; separate. "These piecemeal guilts." -- Gov. of Tongue.
Piecemeal (adv.) A little bit at a time; "the research structure has developed piecemeal" [syn: piecemeal, little by little, bit by bit, in stages].
Piecemeal (a.) One thing at a time [syn: bit-by-bit, in small stages, piecemeal, step-by-step, stepwise].
Piecemealed (a.) Divided into pieces.
Piecener (n.) One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills.
Piecener (n.) Same as Piecer, 2.
Piecer (n.) One who pieces; a patcher.
Piecer (n.) A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
Piecework (n.) Work done by the piece or job; work paid for at a rate based on the amount of work done, rather than on the time employed.
The reaping was piecework, at so much per acre. -- R. Jefferies.
Piecework (n.) Work paid for according to the quantity produced.
Pi (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Pied; p. pr. & vb. n. Pieing.] (Print.) To put into a mixed and disordered condition, as type; to mix and disarrange the type of; as, to pi a form. [Written also pie.]
Pied () imp. & p. p. of Pi, or Pie, v.
Pied (a.) Variegated with spots of different colors; party-colored; spotted; piebald. "Pied coats." -- Burton. "Meadows trim with daisies pied." -- Milton.
Pied antelope (Zool.), The bontebok.
Pied-billed grebe (Zool.), The dabchick.
Pied blackbird (Zool.), Any Asiatic thrush of the genus Turdulus.
Pied finch (Zool.) (a) The chaffinch.
Pied finch (Zool.) (b) The snow bunting. [Prov. Eng.]
Pied flycatcher (Zool.), A common European flycatcher ({Ficedula atricapilla). The male is black and white.
Pied (a.) Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies" [syn: motley, calico, multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi-colour, multicolored, multi-colored, multicoloured, multi-coloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured].
Piedmont (a.) Noting the region of foothills near the base of a mountain chain.
Piedmont (n.) The plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains: parts of Virginia and North and South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama.
Piedmont (n.) A gentle slope leading from the base of a mountain to a region of flat land.
Piedmont (n.) The region of northwestern Italy; includes the Po valley [syn: Piedmont, Piemonte].
Piedmont, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
Population (2000): 1992
Housing Units (2000): 959
Land area (2000): 2.084711 sq. miles (5.399377 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.084711 sq. miles (5.399377 sq. km)
FIPS code: 57422
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 37.153868 N, 90.695766 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 63957
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Piedmont, MO
Piedmont
Piedmont, CA -- U.S. city in California
Population (2000): 10952
Housing Units (2000): 3859
Land area (2000): 1.687860 sq. miles (4.371537 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.687860 sq. miles (4.371537 sq. km)
FIPS code: 56938
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 37.821994 N, 122.231405 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 94611 94618
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Piedmont, CA
Piedmont
Piedmont, OK -- U.S. city in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 3650
Housing Units (2000): 1270
Land area (2000): 43.823942 sq. miles (113.503485 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.095708 sq. miles (0.247883 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 43.919650 sq. miles (113.751368 sq. km)
FIPS code: 58700
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 35.670849 N, 97.751903 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 73078
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Piedmont, OK
Piedmont
Piedmont, SC -- U.S. Census Designated Place in South Carolina
Population (2000): 4684
Housing Units (2000): 1992
Land area (2000): 8.584527 sq. miles (22.233822 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.161160 sq. miles (0.417403 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 8.745687 sq. miles (22.651225 sq. km)
FIPS code: 56365
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 34.704140 N, 82.461427 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 29673
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Piedmont, SC
Piedmont
Piedmont, AL -- U.S. city in Alabama
Population (2000): 5120
Housing Units (2000): 2495
Land area (2000): 9.754829 sq. miles (25.264889 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 9.754829 sq. miles (25.264889 sq. km)
FIPS code: 59640
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 33.926005 N, 85.613137 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 36272
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Piedmont, AL
Piedmont
Piedmont, WV -- U.S. town in West Virginia
Population (2000): 1014
Housing Units (2000): 499
Land area (2000): 0.420156 sq. miles (1.088200 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.420156 sq. miles (1.088200 sq. km)
FIPS code: 63604
Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54
Location: 39.480232 N, 79.048086 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 26750
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Piedmont, WV
Piedmont
Piedmontite (n.) (Min.) A manganesian kind of epidote, from Piedmont. See Epidote.
Piedness (n.) The state of being pied. -- Shak.
Piedouche (n.) A pedestal of small size, used to support small objects, as busts, vases, and the like.
Piedstall (n.) See Pedestal. [Obs.]
Piemen (n. pl. ) of Pieman.
Pieman (n.) A man who makes or sells pies.
Peen (n.) (a) A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation.
Peen (n.) (b) The sharp-edged end of the head of a mason's hammer. [Spelt also pane, pein, and piend.]
Piend (n.) See Peen.
Pieno (a.) (Mus.) Full; having all the instruments.
Rhubarb (n.)
Rhubarb (n.) (Bot.) The name of several large perennial herbs of the genus Rheum and order Polygonaceae.
Rhubarb (n.) The large and fleshy leafstalks of Rheum Rhaponticum and other species of the same genus. They are pleasantly acid, and are used in cookery. Called also pieplant.
Rhubarb (n.) (Med.) The root of several species of Rheum, used much as a cathartic medicine.
Monk's rhubarb. (Bot.) See under Monk.
Turkey rhubarb (Med.), The roots of Rheum Emodi.
Pieplant (n.) Long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened [syn: pieplant, rhubarb].
Piepoudre (n.) Alt. of Piepowder.
Piepowder (n.) (O. Eng. Law) An ancient court of record in England, formerly incident to every fair and market, of which the steward of him who owned or had the toll was the judge. -- Blackstone.
Pier (n.) (Arch.) Any detached mass of masonry, whether insulated or supporting one side of an arch or lintel, as of a bridge; the piece of wall between two openings.
Pier (n.) (Arch.) Any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall. See Buttress.