pie

PIE

abbr. Proto-Indo-European

pie¹

P0280900 (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.).

[Middle English.]

pie²

P0280900 (pī)n. See magpie.

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

pie³

P0280900 (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.]

pie⁴

P0280900 (pī)n. An almanac of services used in the English church before the Reformation.

[Medieval Latin pīca.]

pie⁵

P0280900 (pī)n. & v. Printing Variant of pi².

pie

(paɪ) n1. (Cookery) a baked food consisting of a sweet or savoury filling in a pastry-lined dish, often covered with a pastry crust2. have a finger in the pie a. to have an interest in or take part in some activityb. to meddle or interfere3. 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) 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]

pie

(paɪ) adjbe pie on informal NZ to be keen on[from Māori pai ana]

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.

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.

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).

pie

Past participle: pied
Gerund: pieing

Imperative
pie
pie

Present
I pie
you pie
he/she/it pies
we pie
you pie
they pie

Preterite
I pied
you pied
he/she/it pied
we pied
you pied
they pied

Present Continuous
I am pieing
you are pieing
he/she/it is pieing
we are pieing
you are pieing
they are pieing

Present Perfect
I have pied
you have pied
he/she/it has pied
we have pied
you have pied
they have pied

Past Continuous
I was pieing
you were pieing
he/she/it was pieing
we were pieing
you were pieing
they were pieing

Past Perfect
I had pied
you had pied
he/she/it had pied
we had pied
you had pied
they had pied

Future
I will pie
you will pie
he/she/it will pie
we will pie
you will pie
they will pie

Future Perfect
I will have pied
you will have pied
he/she/it will have pied
we will have pied
you will have pied
they will have pied

Future Continuous
I will be pieing
you will be pieing
he/she/it will be pieing
we will be pieing
you will be pieing
they will be pieing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been pieing
you have been pieing
he/she/it has been pieing
we have been pieing
you have been pieing
they have been pieing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been pieing
you will have been pieing
he/she/it will have been pieing
we will have been pieing
you will have been pieing
they will have been pieing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been pieing
you had been pieing
he/she/it had been pieing
we had been pieing
you had been pieing
they had been pieing

Conditional
I would pie
you would pie
he/she/it would pie
we would pie
you would pie
they would pie

Past Conditional
I would have pied
you would have pied
he/she/it would have pied
we would have pied
you would have pied
they would have pied

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	pie - dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry toppastry - any of various baked foods made of dough or battertart - a small open pie with a fruit fillingdeep-dish pie, cobbler - a pie made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruitshoofly pie - open pie filled with a mixture of sweet crumbs and molassesmince pie - pie containing mincemeatapple pie - pie (with a top crust) containing sliced apples and sugarlemon meringue pie - pie containing lemon custard and topped with meringueblueberry pie - pie containing blueberries and sugarrhubarb pie - pie containing diced rhubarb and much sugarpecan pie - pie made of pecans and sugar and corn syrup and butter and eggspumpkin pie - pie made of mashed pumpkin and milk and eggs and sugarsquash pie - similar to pumpkin pie but made with winter squash instead of pumpkinpatty - small pie or pastymeat 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 languagesProto-Indo EuropeanIndo-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

pie

noun tart, pasty, quiche, tartlet blueberry piepie 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

馅饼

pie

(pai) noun food baked in a covering of pastry. a steak/apple pie.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. 渺茫的幸福，异想天开

pie

→ 馅饼zhCN

pie

See:

(as) easy as pie
(as) sweet as pie
a piece of the pie
American as apple pie
apple pie order
apple-pie order
as American as apple pie
as American as mom and apple pie
as American as motherhood and apple pie
be (as) easy as pie
be as American as apple pie
be as nice as pie
be in apple-pie order
be pie-eyed
cow chip
cut the pie up
cutie pie
easy as A, B, C
easy as ABC/pie/falling off a log
easy as pie
eat crow
eat crow/humble pie/dirt, to
eat humble pie
finger in every pie
finger in every pie, to have a
finger in the pie
finger in the pie, have a
get (something) in apple-pie order
have (one's) finger in too many pies
have a finger in every pie
have a finger in the pie
have a/(one's) finger in every pie
have a/(one's) finger in the pie
have finger in too many pies
humble pie
in apple-pie order
mom and apple pie
motherhood and apple pie
nice as pie
pie hole
pie in the sky
piece of the pie
pie-eating grin
pie-eyed
promises are like pie crust(s): (easily made,) easily broken
promises are like pie crust(s): (they are) made to be broken
put (something) in apple-pie order
Shut your cake hole!
shut your pie hole
slice of the pie
slice the pie, to
sweet as pie
who ate all the pies
word hole

pie

pie,

meat, fish, fowl, fruit, or vegetables baked with a crust of pastrypastry,
general name for baked articles of food made of paste or having paste as a necessary ingredient. The name is also used for the paste itself. The essential elements of paste are flour, liquid (usually milk or water, sometimes beaten egg), and shortening.
..... Click the link for more information. , or pastry shells filled with custard or pudding. The pies of the Romans, especially at banquets in the days of the empire, were often elaborate concoctions, such as the showpieces in which were enclosed live birds. In England meat and fish pies had become common by the 14th cent., and fruit pies, often called tarts, by the 16th cent. The mince pie was an important feature of the Christmas festivities and was called "superstitious" pie by the Puritans in protest against what seemed to them a pagan manner of celebrating a holy feast. The mincemeat filling was a finely chopped, cooked mixture including raisins, currants, apples, suet, sugar, spice, and often meat, brandy or cider, candied peel, and other ingredients. The English settlers in North America retained their taste for pie and adapted it to their new conditions, creating the pumpkin and the cranberry pies. Pie has remained a popular dessert in the United States. In Italy, pie, or pizza, consists, in its most basic form, of a spread of dough covered with tomatoes and mozzarella cheese and baked in an oven.

pie

¹ a very small former Indian coin worth one third of a pice

pie

², pye History a book for finding the Church service for any particular day

PIE

A language from CMU similar to Actus.

PIE

Acronym	Definition
PIE➣Partners in Education
PIE➣Progress in Industrial Ecology (journal; Inderscience Publishers)
PIE➣Partners in Employment (disabilities)
PIE➣Prevention, Intervention and Enforcement (crime fighting)
PIE➣Parent Involvement in Education (various locations)
PIE➣Pharmaceuticals in the Environment (various organizations)
PIE➣Proto-Indo European (linguistics)
PIE➣Platform for Information Exchange
PIE➣Plastics Information Europe (publication)
PIE➣Persuade, Inform, Entertain (writing)
PIE➣Pan Island Expressway (Singapore)
PIE➣Partners in Enterprise (various locations)
PIE➣Pacific Image Electronics (various locations)
PIE➣Planning and Institutional Effectiveness (various schools)
PIE➣Plug-In Extension (software)
PIE➣Punkt Informacji Europejskiej (Polish: European Information Point)
PIE➣Pose, Illumination, and Expression (face recognition database)
PIE➣Public Interest Entity (various locations)
PIE➣Process Interface Electronics
PIE➣Publication in Engineering
PIE➣Portfolio Investment Entity
PIE➣Pielaveden (Finnish)
PIE➣Photo Imaging Expo
PIE➣Pulmonary Interstitial Emphysema (medical)
PIE➣Program Information Exchange (various organizations)
PIE➣Partners in Excellence (customer-satisfaction program instituted by ARI leasing/fleet management company)
PIE➣Pacific Internet Exchange (San Francisco, CA)
PIE➣Prison Industry Enhancement (programs)
PIE➣Pacific Intercultural Exchange (San Diego, CA)
PIE➣Performance Image Exposure (career succss)
PIE➣Post-Irradiation Examination
PIE➣Point Info Energie (French: Info Point Energy)
PIE➣Public Issues Education
PIE➣Persistent Identification Element
PIE➣Panasonic Industrial Europe GmbH (Panasonic Europe Ltd.)
PIE➣Pacific Intermountain Express
PIE➣Price in Effect
PIE➣Public Internet Exchange (various locations)
PIE➣Process Improvement Experiment
PIE➣Personal Information Environment
PIE➣Pre-Installation Environment (computer operating system environment)
PIE➣Period of Initial Eligibility (insurance)
PIE➣Presence, Identity and Edge Resources (peer to peer computing)
PIE➣Project Import Export, Inc. (furniture; Miami, FL)
PIE➣Peripheral Interrupt Expansion
PIE➣Pulsed Irrigation Evacuation (enema)
PIE➣Pride in Excellence
PIE➣Private Internet Exchange
PIE➣Polymorphism, Inheritance, Encapsulation
PIE➣Postulated Initiating Event
PIE➣Peer Integration Exchange
PIE➣Package Installation Envelopes (Cisco)
PIE➣Particle Impact Experiment
PIE➣Platform for International Education (Netherlands)
PIE➣Protocol Information Element
PIE➣Permanent Intermittent Employee
PIE➣Federación de la Plataforma de los Independientes de España
PIE➣Parking Industry Exhibition and Conference
PIE➣Psychological Impacts and Effects
PIE➣Pulmonary Infiltrates with Eosinophils (lung disorder)
PIE➣Personal Incidental Expenditure
PIE➣Propagation, Infection, Execution (computer security)
PIE➣Productivity Integrated Environment
PIE➣Policy and Information Encyclopedia
PIE➣Pulse Interference Elimination
PIE➣Problems, Issues & Expectations (Analysis)
PIE➣Partitioned/Programmable Interface Equipment
PIE➣Photo-Ionization Efficiency (spectroscopy)
PIE➣Policy Issuance Entry (Queue - Insurance)
PIE➣Parlamento Indio Estatal (Spanish: Indian State Parliament; Mexico)
PIE➣St Petersburg/Clearwater, FL, USA - St Petersburg/Clearwater International (Airport Code)

pie

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noun
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Synonyms for pie

noun tart

Synonyms

tart
pasty
quiche
tartlet

phrase pie in the sky

Synonyms

a false hope
a fantasy
an illusion
a mirage
a delusion
a pipe dream
a daydream
an unrealizable dream
a castle in the sky

Words related to pie

noun dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top

Related Words

pastry
tart
deep-dish pie
cobbler
shoofly pie
mince pie
apple pie
lemon meringue pie
blueberry pie
rhubarb pie
pecan pie
pumpkin pie
squash pie
patty
meat pie

noun a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages

Synonyms

Proto-Indo European

Related Words

Indo-European language
Indo-Hittite
Indo-European

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phrase pie in the sky

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noun dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top

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noun a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages

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