Piece and Refrain

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Piece noun - A broken or irregular part of something that often remains incomplete.

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Refrain and piece are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Refrain" instead a noun "Piece".

Nearby Words: pieced, piecework, piecing

Refrain noun - A part of a song or hymn that is repeated every so often.

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Piece and refrain are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Piece" instead a noun "Refrain".

Nearby Words: refrained, refraining

Ulster: Started out as a The Twilight Zone style mix of dots and lines accompanied by a refrain from "The Mountains of Mourne", a piece of traditional music.

Source: Vanity Plate
Octoroon Rangoon starts out as an active orchestral piece, only for the last thirty seconds or so to move into a menacing piano refrain culminating in a heavily distorted "Make her a member of the Midnight Crew..." that sounds rather like it was remixed in hell.

Source: Last Note Nightmare
Its lyrics, however, are full of sad, violent imagery, as in the refrain: "I cut my finger on a thin piece of paper / And red, red blood oozed out / Such a small blade, but it hurt, really hurt my fingertip."

Source: Lyrical Dissonance / Music

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