Dictionary

piece together en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. To physically assemble (or reassemble) from fragments or pieces.
   • The community pieced together a quilt using a square stitched in each household.
   • It took years for the archeologist to piece together the fragments of the shattered vase.
   • Perhaps the best news to come out of the nominations was the brightened box-office prospects for such films as Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild, a dazzling piece of magic realism pieced together from just $1.8m, some rusty bathtubs and whatever Louisiana bric-a-brac its youthful collective of film-makers could lay their hands on. 2013 January 11, Tom Shone, “Oscar nominations pull a surprise by showing some taste – but will it last?”, in The Guardian:
2. (figuratively) To reconstruct an event or goal from incomplete or flawed elements.
   • Arsenal have been piecing their season back together after a poor start and the manner of this win will provide added reserves of confidence and self-belief. 2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:
   • The detective painstakingly collected clues to piece together what happened that tragic night.

Forms

Translations (24)

es reconstruir ((figuratively) to reconstruct an event or goal from incomplete or flawed elements) · de zusammensetzen ((figuratively) to reconstruct an event or goal from incomplete or flawed elements) · de zusammenstückeln (to physically assemble from fragments or pieces) · fi yhdistää (to physically assemble from fragments or pieces) · de zusammenstellen (to physically assemble from fragments or pieces) · fr reconstituer ((figuratively) to reconstruct an event or goal from incomplete or flawed elements) · de klittern ((figuratively) to reconstruct an event or goal from incomplete or flawed elements) · es juntar (to physically assemble from fragments or pieces) · fi liittää yhteen (to physically assemble from fragments or pieces) · cmn 拼湊 /拼凑 (to physically assemble from fragments or pieces) · de rekonstruieren ((figuratively) to reconstruct an event or goal from incomplete or flawed elements) · fi selvittää ((figuratively) to reconstruct an event or goal from incomplete or flawed elements) · fr reconstituer (to physically assemble from fragments or pieces) · fa سر هم کردن (to physically assemble from fragments or pieces) · fr réassembler ((figuratively) to reconstruct an event or goal from incomplete or flawed elements) · cmn 重建 ((figuratively) to reconstruct an event or goal from incomplete or flawed elements) · fr assembler (to physically assemble from fragments or pieces) · de zusammensetzen (to physically assemble from fragments or pieces) · de zusammenbasteln (to physically assemble from fragments or pieces) · de zusammenfügen (to physically assemble from fragments or pieces) · de zusammenklittern ((figuratively) to reconstruct an event or goal from incomplete or flawed elements) · fi koota (to physically assemble from fragments or pieces) · de zusammenstückeln ((figuratively) to reconstruct an event or goal from incomplete or flawed elements) · es montar (to physically assemble from fragments or pieces)