n. 25B6; noun
a piece of cheese 007C; a piece of wood : BIT, slice, chunk, segment, section, lump, hunk, wedge, slab, block, cake, bar, cube, stick, length; offcut, sample, fragment, sliver, splinter, wafer, chip, crumb, scrap, remnant, shred, shard, snippet; mouthful, morsel; Brit. informal wodge.
the pieces of a clock : COMPONENT, part, bit, section, segment, constituent, element; unit, module.
a piece of furniture : ITEM, article, specimen.
a piece of the profit : SHARE, portion, slice, quota, part, bit, percentage, amount, quantity, ration, fraction, division; informal cut, rake-off; Brit. informal whack.
pieces from his private collection : WORK (OF ART), creation, production; composition, opus.
the reporter who wrote the piece : ARTICLE, item, story, report, essay, study, review, composition, column.
the pieces on a chess board : TOKEN, counter, man, disc, chip, marker.
25A0; in one piece
the camera was still in one piece : UNBROKEN, entire, whole, intact, undamaged, unharmed.
I'll bring her back in one piece : UNHURT, uninjured, unscathed, safe, safe and sound.
25A0; in pieces BROKEN, in bits, shattered, smashed, in smithereens; informal bust.
25A0; go/fall to pieces HAVE A BREAKDOWN, break down, go out of one's mind, lose control, lose one's head, fall apart; informal crack up, lose it, come/fall apart at the seams, freak, freak out.