pie

PIE

abbr.

Proto-Indo-European

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pie ¹

 (pī)

n.

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).

Idiom:

pie in the sky

An empty wish or promise: "To outlaw deficits ... is pie in the sky" (Howard H. Baker, Jr.).

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[Middle English.]

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pie ²

 (pī)

n.

See magpie.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin pīca.]

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pie ³

 (pī)

n.

A former unit of currency of India.

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[Hindi pā'ī, from Sanskrit pādikā, quarter, from pāt, pad-, foot, leg; see ped- in Indo-European roots.]

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pie ⁴

 (pī)

n.

An almanac of services used in the English church before the Reformation.

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[Medieval Latin pīca.]

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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]

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pie

(paɪ)

n

(Animals) an archaic or dialect name for magpie

[C13: via Old French from Latin pīca magpie; related to Latin pīcus woodpecker]

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pie

(paɪ)

n, vb

(Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) printing a variant spelling of pi²

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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]

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pie

(paɪ) or

pye

n

(Ecclesiastical Terms) history a book for finding the Church service for any particular day

[C15: from Medieval Latin pica almanac; see pica¹]

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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

Imperative

pie

pie

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Thesaurus

Noun	1.	pie - dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top pastry - 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 Proto-Indo European 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

noun tart, pasty, quiche, tartlet blueberry 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

PasteteTorte

πίτα

pastelempanadapizzatarta

piirakkapiirastorttukakuttaa

tarteentarterpâté

pita

pitetészta

kue pai

baka

tortapasticciopasticcio di carne e patatepizzaconfusione

パイピザパイ

파이

nieko tikrapyragastušti pažadai

pīrāgs

taartpasteipizza

paiterte

ciasto

torta

plăcintă

пирог

pečivo/koláč s plnkou

pita

pajpizzatårta

ขนมพาย

böreketli börekturta

bánh

馅饼

pie

[paɪ]

A. N [of fruit] → tarta f, pay m (LAm); [of meat, fish etc] (= large) → pastel m; (= small) → empanada f
it's as easy as pie → es pan comido
it's all pie in the sky → son castillos en el aire, es pura ilusión
to eat humble pie → tragarse el orgullo y pedir perdón, morder el polvo
see also finger A1

B. CPD pie chart N (Math, Comput) → gráfico m de sectores, gráfico m circular

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

pie

[ˈpaɪ] n

(made with fruit) → tarte f
an apple pie → une tarte aux pommes

(savoury) → tourte m
vegetable pie → tourte m aux légumes

pie in the sky → des chimères

(US) (= cake) → gâteau f

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)

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pie

:

pie chart

n → Kreisdiagramm nt

piecrust

n → Teigdecke f

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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)

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pie

[paɪ] n (of fruit) → torta; (of fish, meat) → pasticcio in crosta
as 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. pastei فَطيرَه пай torta pečivo s náplní, závin, piroh, koláč die Pastete tærte πίταtarta, empanada, pastel pirukas پای piirakka tarteפאי कचौडी़ pita pite kue baka torta パイ 파이 pyragaitis, pyragas (su įdaru) pīrāgs pai pastei, taartpai, terteplacek داسې كلچه چې غوښه يا ميوه وركې ګډه وي، سنبوسه، ګيږ كه، كيشكره، اوګبۍ tarte plăcintă пирог pečivo / koláč s náplňou pita pita paj พาย etli börek; turta 派餅 пиріг; пиріжок سموسہ bánh nướng 馅饼

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. onvervulbare hoop شَيءٌ جيّد مَوعود وغَيْر مؤكَّد празни надежди promessa vzdušné zámky das Luftschloß luftkastel κενή υπόσχεση, μεγάλα λόγια castillos en el aire täitumatu soov آرمان تحقق ناپذیر toiveajattelu des châteaux en Espagne אַשלָיוֹת असंभावी योजना nagrada kasnije csak egy szép álom janji indah innantóm loforð chimera, castello in aria 絵にかいた餅 헛된 기대 tušti pažadai, nieko tikra solītā paradīze; tukši solījumi tinggi melangit luchtkasteeltomme løfter obiecanki cacanki لاس ته نه راوړونكى آرمان sonho castele în Spania водушные замки vzdušné zámky gradovi v oblakih prazno obećanje [lova] guld och gröna skogar วาดวิมานกลางอากาศ ham hayâl, olmayacak dua 渺茫的幸福，異想天開 синиця у небі سبز باغ دکھانا hy vọng hão huyền 渺茫的幸福，异想天开

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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

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