Pie

Noun

 * 1) A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling.
 * The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert.
 * 1) Extended to other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
 * Shepherd's pie is made of mince covered with mashed potato.
 * 1)  Pizza.
 * 2)  The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
 * 3) *It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead. But when the pie is shrinking, social groups are more likely to turn on each other. &mdash; Evan Thomas, Why It’s Time to Worry, Newsweek 2010-12-04
 * 4)  A disorderly mess of spilt type.
 * 5)  An especially badly bowled ball.
 * 6)  a gluttonous person.

Derived terms

 * apple pie
 * chicken pie
 * cottage pie
 * cutie pie
 * cream pie
 * easy as pie
 * have one's fingers in many pies
 * meat pie
 * mince pie


 * mud pie
 * pie chart
 * pie-eater
 * pie-eyed
 * pie-faced
 * pie floater
 * piehole
 * pie in the sky


 * pieing
 * party pie
 * piemaker
 * piet
 * pork pie
 * pot pie
 * shepherd's pie
 * who ate all the pies
 * pi

Verb

 * 1)  To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
 * I'd like to see someone pie the chairman of the board.
 * 1)  To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.

Noun

 * 1)  Magpie.

Noun

 * 1)  The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to 1/192 of a Rupee or 1/12 of an anna.
 * 2) * 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes’, The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales, Folio Society 2005, p. 117:
 * I gave him all the money in my possession, Rs.9.8.5. – nine rupees, eight annas, and five pie – for I always keep small change as bakshish when I am in camp.

Adjectives for Pie
silken; leathery-looking; delicious; half-demolished;  chattering;  browned;   fresh; tasty; luscious; steaming.

Thesaurus
Danish pastry, Deutschmark, French pastry, Mark, Reichsmark, afghani, anna, baht, baklava, blintz, breeze, cent, centavo, centime, chocolate eclair, cinch, conto, cream puff, dollar, dong, dowdy, easy target, easy thing, eclair, florin, franc, guilder, gulden, kip, kopeck, krona, krone, lira, milreis, pandowdy, pastry, pasty, patisserie, patty, patty-shell, peseta, picnic, piece of cake, piece of eight, pipe, pistareen, pound, puff, pushover, quiche, rand, rial, rosette, ruble, rupee, setup, shekel, shilling, sinecure, sitting duck, snap, sol, sou, stiver, strudel, tart, timbale, tipsy cake, trifle, turnover, velvet, vol-au-vent, won, yen

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: pi, π
 * Homophones: pi, π
 * Homophones: pi, π
 * Homophones: pi, π

Etymology 1
From, unknown origin.

Etymology 2
From pie:, from  pica:, feminine of picus:

Etymology 3
From undefined:, from  पादिका:.

Noun

 * Afrikaans: pastei
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: فطيرة
 * Belarusian: пірог
 * Catalan: pastís
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Cornish: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: tærte
 * Dutch:, pastei
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:, תמליא  (the academy-sanctioned word, but not often used)
 * Hindi: पाई
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:


 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 파이
 * Latin: crustum
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Maltese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Taos: pòstaléna
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian: пиріг
 * West Frisian:


 * Dutch:, pastei
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Greek:


 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Swedish:


 * Japanese:


 * Maltese: ftajra


 * French: (lit., "cake")


 * Italian: ,


 * : tert


 * : plăcintă
 * : plăcintă

Verb

 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Swedish:

Anagrams

 * EIP, ipe, ipé, PEI

Adverb

 * 1) Piously.

Noun

 * 1) Magpie.

Etymology
From pica:.

Anagrams

 * épi, I.-P.-E., IPE, ipé

Adjective
pie


 * 1) Feminine plural form of pio

Anagrams

 * pei

Adverb

 * 1) piously, devoutly
 * 2) dutifully, loyally

Preposition
pie


 * 1) At.

Noun

 * 1) pie

Derived terms

 * Category:Mandarin words derived from: pie

Pinyin syllable
pie



Etymology
from English

Noun

 * 1) foot.

Synonyms

 * pata

Derived terms

 * a sus pies
 * a pie
 * al pie del cañón
 * al pie de la letra
 * a pies juntillas
 * buscarle tres pies al gato
 * con buen pie/con el pie derecho
 * con mal pie/con el pie izquierdo
 * con los pies por delante
 * de los pies a la cabeza
 * dar pie
 * en pie de guerra
 * en pie de igualdad
 * hacer pie
 * nacer de pie


 * no dar pie con bola
 * parar los pies
 * pie de página
 * pie de foto
 * pie cavo
 * pie de atleta
 * pie de imprenta
 * pie plano
 * pie quebrado
 * poner los pies en un lugar
 * poner los pies en polvorosa
 * por pies
 * saber de qué pie cojea alguien
 * sacar los pies del plato
 * sin pies ni cabeza

Etymology
From pes:, pedis:. Compare Catalan peu:, Esperanto piedo:, French pied:, Ido pedo:, Interlingua pede:, Italian piede:, Latin pes:, Latvian pēda:, Lithuanian pėdės:, Portuguese pé:, Sardinian pei: