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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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pie

Noun

1. a sweet or savoury filling baked in pastry

2. pie in the sky illusory hope or promise of some future good [origin unknown]

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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).

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

Translations

pie [paɪ] n [of meat etc] (large) → pastel m: (small) → empanada;

(sweet) → tarta

pie [paɪ] n → tourte f [of fruit]; tarte f [of meat]; pâté m en croûte

pie [paɪ] n (vegetable, meat) → Pastete f;

(fruit) → Torte f

pie [paɪ] n → torta; [of meat] → pasticcio

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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(과일·고기 따위를 밀가루 반죽에 싸서 구운 것) 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 en el aire castillos 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 믿을 수 없는 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