Uttal

  • UttalUS
  • RP:
    • IPA: /ˈpiːs.miːl/
  • US:
    • IPA: /ˈpiːs.miːl/

Ingen översättning hittades i den valda målspråket.

Piecemeal verkar vara ett sammansatt ord. Prova att söka dess delar separat:

Liknande ord

Definitioner

Adjektiv

  1. Made or done in pieces or one stage at a time.

Adverb

  1. Piece by piece; in small amounts, stages, or degrees.
  2. Into pieces or parts.

Verb

  1. (transitive) To divide or distribute piecemeal; dismember.

Substantiv

  1. A fragment; a scrap.

Exempel

  • Such assistance, I am convinced, must not be on a piecemeal basis, as various crises develop.
  • But the copious and intertwined associative links warrant our accepting the former alternative: cyclamen—favourite flower—favourite food— artichokes; pulling to pieces like an artichoke, leaf by leaf (a phrase constantly ringing in our ears in relation to the piecemeal dismemberment of the Chinese Empire)—herbarium—bookworms, whose favourite food is books.
  • It’s as bad as selling a man a horse with half a dozen latent vices and watching him discover them piecemeal in the course of the hunting season.
  • A few years ago also there was the case of Kate Webster, who at Richmond murdered her mistress, and, fiend-like, cut the body up piecemeal, and tried to dispose of it in various ways by small portions.

Böjningsformer

PerfektparticippiecemealedImperfektpiecemealed
PresensparticippiecemealingPluralpiecemeals
Komparativmore piecemealSuperlativmost piecemeal
Tredje person singular indicativ presenspiecemeals