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PIE

abbr.

Proto-Indo-European

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pie ¹  (p)

n.

1. A baked food composed of a pastry shell filled with fruit, meat, cheese, or other ingredients, and usually covered with a pastry crust.

2. A layer cake having cream, custard, or jelly filling.

3. A whole that can be shared: "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  (p)

n.

See magpie.

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

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pie ³  (p)

n.

A monetary unit formerly in use in India and Pakistan.

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[Hindi p', from Sanskrit pdik, quarter, from pt, pad-, foot, leg; see ped- in Indo-European roots.]

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pie ⁴  (p)

n.

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

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[Medieval Latin pca.]

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pie ⁵  (p)

n. & v. Printing

Variant of pi².

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pie¹

n

1. (Cookery) a baked food consisting of a sweet or savoury filling in a pastry-lined dish, often covered with a pastry crust

have a (or one's) finger in the pie

a.  to have an interest in or take part in some activity

b.  to meddle or interfere

pie in the sky illusory hope or promise of some future good; false optimism

[of obscure origin]

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pie²

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) an archaic or dialect name for magpie

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

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pie³

n & vb

(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) Printing a variant spelling of pi²

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pie⁴

n

(Economics, Accounting & Finance / Currencies) a very small former Indian coin worth one third of a pice

[from Hindi pā'ī, from Sanskrit pādikā a fourth]

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pie⁵, pye [paɪ]

n

(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) History a book for finding the Church service for any particular day

[from Medieval Latin pica almanac; see pica¹]

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pie⁶

adj

be pie on NZ informal to be keen on

[from Maori pai ana]

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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).

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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.

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.

Translations

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

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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

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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

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pie

n pie [pai]

food baked in a covering of pastry a steak/apple pie. pastei فَطيرَه пай pečivo s náplní, závin, piroh, koláč tærte die Pastete πίτα tarta, empanada, pastel pirukas پای piirakka tarte פָּאי कचौडी़ pita pite kue baka torta パイ 파이 pyragaitis, pyragas (su įdaru) pīrāgs pai pastei, taart pai, terte placek tarte plăcintă пирог pečivo / koláč s náplňou pita pita paj พาย etli börek; turta 餡餅 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 vzdušné zámky luftkastel das Luftschloß κενή υπόσχεση, μεγάλα λόγια castillos en el aire täitumatu soov آرمان تحقق ناپذیر tuulesta temmattu 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 luchtkasteel tomme løfter obiecanki cacanki sonho castele în Spania воздушные замки vzdušné zámky gradovi v oblakih prazno obećanje [] 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 → فطيرة koláč tærte Pastete πίτα pastel piirakka tarte pita torta パイ 파이 taart pai ciasto torta пирог paj ขนมพาย börek bánh 馅饼