Verb
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.
(figuratively) To reconstruct an event or goal from incomplete or flawed elements.
The detective painstakingly collected clues to piece together what happened that tragic night.
What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]? That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior. Newt Gingrich
If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now. Richard Perle
I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value! Sam Palladio
Actual creativeness is a matter of moments. One has to piece together the minute grains to make a lump. And it is so easy to miss the momentary flashes, it is like sluicing in placer mining. He who lets the flakes float by has nothing to show for his trouble. Eric Hoffer
Once I wrote poems, I found that I was able to piece together individual moments that would, I'd hoped, sometimes compound. The line was the most important thing to me-that and the music it produced. Jon Pineda
If we have no time to think, to mull, if we have no time to piece together the sudden associations and unexpected, mid-shower insights that are the stuff of independent opinion, then we are less citizens than cursors, easily manipulated, vulnerable to the currents of power. Mark Slouka