2020-11-25
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด P – peace & piece
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Dictionary.com
ออกเสียง peace & piece = ‘PEES’
Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree
Peace =
quiet, calm, rapport, concord, truce;
lack of hostility: a time of peace
Not to be confused with:
piece – part; section; fragment; portion:
a piece of cake; a musical or literary composition
Dictionary.com
USAGE NOTE FOR PIECE
The meanings “sexual intercourse” and “sexual partner”
are both vulgar slang.
When referring to a person,
the term piece is usually used with disparaging intent
and perceived as insulting.
HISTORICAL USAGE OF PIECE
English piece comes from Middle English pece, peece, piece,
from Anglo-French peece, pees, peice
and Old French pece, pice.
Other Western Romance languages share variations of the same word: Provençal pessa, pesa,
Spanish pieza, Catalan peça,
Portuguese peça, Italian pezza.
These Romance forms correspond to Medieval Latin pecia, petia
“a bit, portion, coin”
(compare two bits, a dated American slang term for "twenty-five cents"). The Medieval Latin form has no Latin origin but probably originates in a Gaulish noun pettiā, which explains why there is no cognate word in Romanian ( piece in Romanian is bucată ).
The American colloquialism wanna get a piece of me?
(a challenge to a fight) dates back to 1953;
piece in the derogatory sense “girl or woman (regarded as a sex object)” dates back to the 16th century; piece of ass to 1857; and (nasty) piece of work dates from the 18th century.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Choose the Right Synonym for piece
Noun
DIVISION, SECTION, SEGMENT, FRAGMENT
mean something less than the whole.
PART is a general term appropriate when indefiniteness is required. they ran only part of the way
PORTION implies an assigned or allotted part. cut the pie into six portions
PIECE applies to a separate or detached part of a whole. a puzzle with 500 pieces
MEMBER suggests one of the functional units composing a body. a structural member
DIVISION applies to a large or diversified part. the manufacturing division of the company
SECTION applies to a relatively small or uniform part. the entertainment section of the newspaper
SEGMENT applies to a part separated or marked out by or as if by natural lines of cleavage. the retired segment of the population
FRAGMENT applies to a part produced by or as if by breaking off. only a fragment of the play still exists
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Usage Notes
Do You 'Say Your Piece' or 'Say Your Peace'?
The whole truth about a confusing idiom.
What to Know
Say your piece and hold your peace are separate idioms.
"Say your piece" refers to stating your opinion,
or your "piece" or "part" of the conversation.
This is often confused with "hold your peace,"
which is often associated with marriage objections
and refers to remaining silent and peaceful.
Frequently, even in professional writing,
the confusion is apparent and written as"say your peace."
Let's not bury the lede (or is it lead?) here.
To say your piece is toexpress your opinion or point of view about something
Whether Kaepernick should have a job is complex: While with the San Francisco 49ers last season, he became a lightning rod for controversy after kneeling as the national anthem was played. But it seems we often respond to such situations with hypocrisy. Whether we think athletes or entertainers have the right to say their piece often depends on how we feel about what they say. — Lane Filler, Newsday, 6 Sept. 2017
Having said his piece on North Korea on Tuesday, Trump appeared for a couple of days to have moved on. Wednesday and Thursday, before renewing his rhetorical volleys at Kim, Trump had a new target in his sights, his party's leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell. — David Lauter, The Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2017
This sense of piece isdefined in the dictionary as "opinion" or "view."
Many other senses of the word suggest a part that,
when joined with others of like kind, makes a whole:
a piece of pie; a jigsaw puzzle piece.
If you think of a discourse or conversation assomething to which many people contribute, then each of those people has a piece.
Piece vs Peace
However, this doesn't stop some English speakers
—as well as professional editors
—from interpreting piece as itshomophone peace:
It was one of the most anticipated acceptance speeches in wrestling history, but Warrior, famous for his face paint and unending energy during his ring entrance, didn't say anything crazy or point fingers directly at his naysayers. Instead, he said his peace on the negative DVD the WWE made about him in 2005 -- "It broke my heart. ... The DVD was just wrong. It was hurtful." -- and his bad reputation -- "I was a good guy. I am a good guy."
— Gene Guillot, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, 6 Apr. 2014
Occasionally an editor will notice the substitutionof peace for piece and note it with a [sic] in running text:
She [Elizabeth Poe] has also taken to defending herself in her Facebook comments, where, as in many online forums, the conversation has largely turned hostile. "Please, this is not going to be used as a platform to hash out your beliefs v. my beliefs. I said my peace [sic]," she wrote. "I am sorry that you don't agree with my policy. I am certainly willing to live with my decision." — Eric Levenson, CNN.com, 26 Jan. 2017
The use of peace in place of piece inthis idiom is a somewhat common occurrence that appears even in professionally edited text.
The cause is likely a result of interpretation.
If you've said all you have to say about a subject and are done talking,
after all, you would presumably remain quiet on the subject afterward.
As demonstrated by the David Lauter example above, the phrase comes with a suggestion of finality.
One might then interpret the act of saying no more
as "saying one's peace."
Hold One's Peace
There also exists the possibility of the conflation of say one's piece with another established idiom, hold one's peace,
such as you might hear an officiator say at a wedding.
The officiator might offer a chance for anyone present to voice their objection to the nuptials: "If anyone here believes this couple should not be married, let them speak now or forever hold their peace."
Hold one's peace here means "to keep silent," because the time for stating one's objection to the marriage will have passed.
But it's a distinct phrase from say one's piece, with the focus on silence rather than what is being said.
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
WHICH WORD?
peace / peacefulness
The noun peace can be used to talk about a peaceful state or situation: world peace
I just need some peace and quiet.
Peacefulness is not a common word.
It means 'the quality of being peaceful'.
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
VOCABULARY BUILDING
pieces
If you want to talk about a small amount or one example of something that is normally an uncountable noun,
there is a range of words you can use.
You must choose the right one to go with the substance you are talking about.
Piece and (BrE, informal) bit are very general words
and can be used with most uncountable nouns:
a piece of paper / wood / string / cake / fruit / meat / work / research / advice
a bit of paper / work / chocolate / luck.
A slice is a thin flat piece:
a slice of bread / cake / salami / cheese / pie /apple
(figurative) a slice of life.
A chunk is a thick, solid piece:
a chunk of cheese / bread / rock
a chunk of land (= a fairly large piece).
A lump is a piece of something solid without any particular shape:
a lump of coal / rock / mud.
A fragment is a very small piece of something that is broken or damaged: fragments of glass
(figurative) fragments of conversation.
It can also be used with countable nouns to mean a small part of something:
a fragment of the story.
A speck is a tiny piece of powder:
a speck of dust / dirt. You can also say: a speck of light.
Drop is used with liquids:
a drop of water / rain / blood / milk / whisky.
A pinch is as much as you can hold between your finger and thumb:
a pinch of salt / cinnamon.
A portion is enough for one person:
a portion of chicken / fish and chips.
It can also be used with some countable nouns to mean a part of something.
Common Errors In English Usage Dictionary
Peace & piece
It’s hard to believe many people really confuse
the meaning of these words;
but the spellings are frequently swapped, probably out of sheer carelessness.
“Piece” has the word “pie” buried in it,
which should remind you of the familiar phrase,
“a piece of pie.”
You can meditate to find peace of mind,
or you can get angry and give someone a piece of your mind.
Classical scholars will note that pax is the Latin word for peace,
suggesting the need for an “A” in the latter word.
