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Meaning of "museum piece" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MUSEUM PIECE

museum piece play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MUSEUM PIECE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Museum piece is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MUSEUM PIECE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of museum piece in the English dictionary

The definition of museum piece in the dictionary is an object of sufficient age or interest to be kept in a museum. Other definition of museum piece is a person or thing regarded as antiquated or decrepit.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MUSEUM PIECE

muse
museful
musefully
museological
museologist
museology
muser
musette
musette bag
museum
museum beetle
Museveni
Musgrave
mush
mush area
musha
Musharraf
mushed
mushed-up
musher

WORDS THAT END LIKE MUSEUM PIECE

altarpiece
apiece
backpiece
centerpiece
companion piece
earpiece
eyepiece
headpiece
masterpiece
mouthpiece
neckpiece
niece
of a piece
one-piece
piano piece
piece
T-piece
three-piece
timepiece
two-piece
workpiece

Synonyms and antonyms of museum piece in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «museum piece» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MUSEUM PIECE

Find out the translation of museum piece to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of museum piece from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «museum piece» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

博物馆的作品
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pieza de museo
570 millions of speakers

English

museum piece
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

संग्रहालय टुकड़ा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قطعة المتحف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

музейный экспонат
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

peça de museu
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

যাদুঘর টুকরা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pièce de musée
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sekeping muzium
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Museumstück
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

時代遅れの物
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

조각 박물관
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Potongan museum
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bảo vật
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அருங்காட்சியகம் துண்டு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

संग्रहालय तुकडा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Müze parçası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pezzo da museo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

muzeum sztuk
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

музейний експонат
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

piesă de muzeu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μουσειακό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

museum stuk
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

museiföremål
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

museumsgjenstand
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of museum piece

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MUSEUM PIECE»

The term «museum piece» is regularly used and occupies the 67.649 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MUSEUM PIECE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «museum piece» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «museum piece» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about museum piece

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MUSEUM PIECE»

Discover the use of museum piece in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to museum piece and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Museum Piece
When museum art buyer Mary Lindsay McDonough's frustration with underhanded art dealer James Elliott leads her to write him a scathing letter, the anger and friction between the two increases and turns into something more.
Anne Stuart, 2012
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Cognitive Therapy Techniques for Children and Adolescents: ...
Museum Piece is an experiential procedure for adolescents with performance and evaluation fears. Like many experiential techniques, Museum Piece combines elements from both ACT and CBT. It is similar to the chessboard metaphor ...
Robert D. Friedberg, Jessica M. McClure, Jolene Hillwig Garcia, 2009
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Medieval Tapestries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The similarity is particularly striking when one compares the Metropolitan Museum's piece to the Deer Hunt tapestry in London, allowing all the while for the differences that derive from the more sophisticated drawing and execution of the ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Adolph S. Cavallo, 1993
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Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Literary ...
The material of which the Ryder Amulet is made cannot be checked, but the Metropolitan Museum piece is definitely clay. Minute examination of its written surface does not suggest a cast, and the bogus wedges are clearly cut into the ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Ira Spar, 2005
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Paris Primitive: Jacques Chirac's Museum on the Quai Branly
[1] Museum piece, 2006 Museum piece is based on drawings of objects in forgotten museum collections from the artist's notebook. The workoffersa poignantmemorial to the systematic dispossession of indigenous people and their culture.
Sally Price, 2007
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Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum: ...
At least one Beurdeley piece has received the accolade of entering a great museum piece as a genuine piece,61 and it has been suggested that the piece which sold for a record price at the Leybourne Popham sale mentioned above62 was ...
Gillian Wilson, Sir Francis Watson, 2000
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Museum Objects: Experiencing the Properties of Things
The crucial idea is that of selection, and it is the act of selection which turns a part of the natural world into an object and a museum piece. This is clearly demonstrated by the sample of moon rock which went on display in the Milestones of ...
Sandra H. Dudley, 2012
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American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
145), however, difi'ers significantly; it neither has a flat bottom nor protrudes very far. Like that on the Henry Ford Museum piece, which has the same contours, it is more conservative and recalls the lower mid-molding on a seventeenth-century ...
‎2007
9
Føroysk-Ensk ordabók: with Faroese folk-lore and proverbs : ...
must I pick up your old rags after you? -klaeddur (lit) dressed in old, shabby clothes, -kvaedi (///) old ballad or song (kvaedi), -leivd fossil, museum piece, -ligur (lit) old-fashioned, archaic: -lig bending — archaic inflexion, -lutur fossil, museum  ...
‎1985
10
Catalogue of the Soulages collection; now exhibited at the ...
Although a far finer and more powerful work, there can be no doubt of its being by the same hand as the British Museum piece ; I should indeed deem it to be of the finest and most fully developed period of the artist, probably somewhat before ...
John Charles Robinson (sir.), 1856

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MUSEUM PIECE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term museum piece is used in the context of the following news items.
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Carousel Theatre rocks Shakespeare
“Shakespeare has the danger of being presented as a museum piece, as something that is dead, especially with a history play,” said Carousel ... «Vancouver Sun, Jul 15»
2
Tiger Woods will always be worth the ink
... monstrous television ratings, massive galleries watching him as if he were a museum piece on display — by winning at an astounding rate. «SFGate, Jul 15»
3
Journal of discovery
“I thought 'well this looks like a museum piece,'” she said. “I couldn't let it sit there.” “She wanted to know who this guy was,” Thronson said. «Lethbridge Herald, Jul 15»
4
Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips Creates Museum Piece In …
Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips has created a visual artwork for an exhibition at Baltimore's American Visionary Art Museum. 'The Big Hope ... «Noise11, Jul 15»
5
Amazing Maserati concept car tipped to fetch almost £3m at auction
"It's very rare and very expensive so it's more of a museum piece, but you can drive it. The current owner has taken it around northern Italy and ... «BT.com, Jul 15»
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Bordeaux's renovated wineries are as striking as the blends they bottle
The chateau is now encased in glass, almost like a museum piece — or an aquarium, if you're feeling uncharitable. On the inside, traditional ... «St. George Daily Spectrum, Jul 15»
7
Alternatives in America
... period and date found its pride of pride on my kitchen counter, and David was amused that a museum piece, an American Indian flat-stone ... «Livemint, Jul 15»
8
Frank Lloyd Wright and the zombie building boom
“It's a museum piece and we're not pretending otherwise.” It is little more than a stage-set, a flimsy Wright-themed billboard, but Sandoro says ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Quake-ravaged former Register building bouncing back
But Beckstoffer has more on his mind than preserving the building as a nice-looking museum piece with no purpose in 21st-century Napa. «Napa Valley Register, Jul 15»
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Of Carhops and Cafeterias: 'To Live and Dine in LA' Tackles …
It's less a museum piece than it is an interactive installation: The menus are set underneath a table, which shape-shifts from a banquet table to ... «Newsweek, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Museum piece [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/museum-piece>. Apr 2024 ».
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