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PIE
abbr.
Proto-Indo-European
pie 1
(pī)n.
Idiom: 1. A dish composed of fruit, meat, cheese, or other ingredients baked over, under, or surrounded by a crust of pastry or other dough.
2. A layer cake having cream, custard, or jelly filling.
3. Informal A pizza.
4. Something similar to or resembling pie: mud pie.
5. A whole that can be portioned out: "That would ... enlarge the economic pie by making the most productive use of every investment dollar" (New York Times).
pie in the sky
An empty wish or promise: "To outlaw deficits ... is pie in the sky" (Howard H. Baker, Jr.).
[Middle English.]
pie 2
(pī)n.
See magpie.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin pīca.]
pie 3
(pī)n.
A former unit of currency of India.
[Hindi pā'ī, from Sanskrit pādikā, quarter, from pāt, pad-, foot, leg; see ped- in Indo-European roots.]
pie 4
(pī)n.
An almanac of services used in the English church before the Reformation.
[Medieval Latin pīca.]
pie 5
(pī)n. & v. Printing
Variant of pi2.
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pie
(paɪ)n
1. (Cookery) a baked food consisting of a sweet or savoury filling in a pastry-lined dish, often covered with a pastry crust
2. have a finger in the pie
a. to have an interest in or take part in some activity
b. to meddle or interfere
3. pie in the sky illusory hope or promise of some future good; false optimism
[C14: of obscure origin]
pie
(paɪ)n
(Animals) an archaic or dialect name for magpie
[C13: via Old French from Latin pīca magpie; related to Latin pīcus woodpecker]
pie
(paɪ)n, vb
(Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) printing a variant spelling of pi2
pie
(paɪ)n
(Currencies) a very small former Indian coin worth one third of a pice
[C19: from Hindi pā'ī, from Sanskrit pādikā a fourth]
pie
(paɪ) orpye
n
(Ecclesiastical Terms) history a book for finding the Church service for any particular day
[C15: from Medieval Latin pica almanac; see pica1]
pie
(paɪ)adj
be pie on informal NZ to be keen on
[from Māori pai ana]
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pie1
(paɪ)n.
1. a pastry crust filled with fruit, meat, pudding, etc., and baked, often with a top crust.
2. a layer cake with a cream or custard filling: Boston cream pie.
3. a total or whole that can be divided: They want a bigger part of the profit pie.
4. an activity or affair: I'm sure he had a finger in the pie.
Idioms: pie in the sky, the illusory prospect of future benefits.
[1275–1325; Middle English; of obscure orig.]
pie3
(paɪ)n., v.t. pied, pie•ing.
pi 2 .
PIE
Proto-Indo-European.
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pie
- chiffon - First a fabric, then a type of pie.
- egg wash - Egg and milk or water brushed on bread, pie, etc. before baking is called egg wash.
- pizza - Literally "pie" in Italian, making "pizza pie" redundant. It’s plural is pizza.
- lid - The top crust of a pie.
Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
Pie
a collection of things made up into a heap; a confused mass; a collection of rules.Examples: pie of coals, 1526; of green fodder, 1887; of mangolds, 1848; of manure; of potatoes, 1791; of unsorted type (as when a printing forme has been broken down).
Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
pie
Past participle: pied
Gerund: pieing
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| Noun | 1. |  pie - dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry toppastry - any of various baked foods made of dough or batter tart - a small open pie with a fruit filling deep-dish pie, cobbler - a pie made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit shoofly pie - open pie filled with a mixture of sweet crumbs and molasses mince pie - pie containing mincemeat apple pie - pie (with a top crust) containing sliced apples and sugar lemon meringue pie - pie containing lemon custard and topped with meringue blueberry pie - pie containing blueberries and sugar rhubarb pie - pie containing diced rhubarb and much sugar pecan pie - pie made of pecans and sugar and corn syrup and butter and eggs pumpkin pie - pie made of mashed pumpkin and milk and eggs and sugar squash pie - similar to pumpkin pie but made with winter squash instead of pumpkin patty - small pie or pasty meat pie - pie made with meat or fowl enclosed in pastry or covered with pastry or biscuit dough |
| 2. | PIE - a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages Indo-European language, Indo-Hittite, Indo-European - the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia |
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pie
pie in the sky a false hope, a fantasy, an illusion, a mirage, a delusion, a pipe dream, a daydream, an unrealizable dream, a castle in the sky The deadline seemed like pie in the sky.
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Translations
فَطِيرَةفَطيرَه
koláčpečivo s náplnípirohzávin
tærtepizza
piirakkapiirastorttukakuttaa
pita
pitetészta
kue pai
baka
パイピザパイ
파이
nieko tikrapyragastušti pažadai
pīrāgs
plăcintă
pečivo/koláč s plnkou
pita
pajpizzatårta
ขนมพาย
bánh
pie
[paɪ]Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
pie
n → Pastete f; (sweet) → Obstkuchen m; (individual) → Tortelett nt; that’s all pie in the sky (inf) → das sind nur verrückte Ideen; as nice/sweet as pie (inf) → superfreundlich (inf); as easy as pie (inf) → kinderleicht; she’s got a finger in every pie (fig inf) → sie hat überall ihre Finger drin (inf)
pie
:pie chart
n → Kreisdiagramm nt
piecrust
n → Teigdecke f
pie
:pie-eater
n (Austral inf: = nonentity) → Null f (inf)
pie-eyed
adj (inf) → blau (wie ein Veilchen) (inf)
pie-flinging
n (inf: in films) → Tortenschlacht f (inf)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
pie
[paɪ] n (of fruit) → torta; (of fish, meat) → pasticcio in crostaas easy as pie (fam) → (facile) come bere un bicchier d'acqua
that's pie in the sky → sono castelli in aria
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
pie
(pai) noun food baked in a covering of pastry. a steak/apple pie.
pie in the sky something good promised for the future but which one is not certain or likely to get. He says he will get a well-paid job but it's just pie in the sky.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
pie
→ فَطِيرَة koláč tærte Pastete πίτα pastel piirakka tarte pita torta パイ 파이 taart pai ciasto torta пирог paj ขนมพาย börek bánh 馅饼Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009