Meaning of PIECEMEAL
| Pronunciation: | | 'pees`meel
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- [adv] a little bit at a time; "the research structure has developed piecemeal"
- [adj] one thing at a time
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| | Synonyms: | | bit by bit, bit-by-bit, gradual, in small stages, in stages, little by little, step-by-step, stepwise |
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\Piece"meal`\, adv. [OE. pecemele; pece a piece + AS.
m?lum, dat. pl. of m?l part. See {Meal} a portion.]
1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. ``On which it piecemeal
brake.'' --Chapman.
The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. --Tennyson.
2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession.
Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that.
--Pope.
\Piece"meal`\, a.
Made up of parts or pieces; single; separate. ``These
piecemeal guilts.'' --Gov. of Tongue.
\Piece"meal`\, n.
A fragment; a scrap. --R. Vaughan.
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| | Related Terms: | | adrift, apart, apart from, aside from, asunder, away from, bit by bit, by degrees, by inches, by inchmeal, by snatches, disjointed, drop by drop, fitfully, foot by foot, fragmentary, gradual, gradually, in detail, in driblets, in installments, in lots, in small doses, in snatches, in the abstract, in twain, in two, inch by inch, inchmeal, intermittently, little by little, one by one, part by part, piece by piece, separately, severally, slowly, sporadic, sporadically, step-by-step |
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