Definition of pie Pie

/pajˈ/ - [pay] - pie

We found 31 definitions of pie from 8 different sources.

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WordNet

WordNet by Princeton University

Noun

Plural: pies

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 pastry cup with a filling of fruit or custard and no top crust
  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 round flat candy
pie - a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages
  Proto-Indo European, PIE
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Wiktionary Wiktionary dictionary logo

  • pie (Noun)
    A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling.
  • pie (Noun)
    Extended to other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
  • pie (Noun)
    Pizza.
  • pie (Noun)
    The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
  • pie (Noun)
    A disorderly mess of spilt type.
  • pie (Noun)
    An especially badly bowled ball.
  • pie (Noun)
    A gluttonous person.
  • pie (Noun)
    vulva.
  • pie (Noun)
    Magpie.
  • pie (Noun)
    The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to 1/192 of a rupee or 1/12 of an anna.
  • pie (Verb)
    To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest see also pieing.
  • pie (Verb)
    To go around a corner in a guarded manner.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary šŸ“˜

  • pie (n.)
    An article of food consisting of paste baked with something in it or under it; as, chicken pie; venison pie; mince pie; apple pie; pumpkin pie.
  • pie (n.)
    See Camp, n., 5.
  • pie (n.)
    A magpie.
  • pie (n.)
    Any other species of the genus Pica, and of several allied genera.
  • pie (n.)
    The service book.
  • pie (n.)
    Type confusedly mixed. See Pi.
  • pie (v. t.)
    See Pi.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ī©

  • pie
    A quantity of meat, fruit, or other food baked within or under a crust of prepared pastry.
  • pie
    ISO 639-6 entity
  • pie
    The hypothetical common ancestor of the Indo-European languages.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary šŸ“•

  • pie
    pÄ«, n. a magpie: (print.) type mixed or unsorted (cf. Pi). [Fr.,—L. pica.]
  • pie
    pÄ«, n. a book which ordered the manner of performing divine service: a service-book: an ordinal.—By cock and pie (Shak.), a minced oath=By God and the service-book. [Fr.,—L. pica, lit. magpie, from its old black-letter type on white paper resembling the colours of the magpie.]
  • pie
    pÄ«, n. the smallest Indian copper coin, equal to ā…“ of a pice, or 1⁄12 of an anna. [Marathi pā'Ä«, a fourth.]
  • pie
    pÄ«, n. a quantity of meat or fruit baked within a crust of prepared flour.—A finger in the pie (see Finger); Humble-pie (see Humble); Mince-pie (see Mince); Perigord pie, a pie flavoured with truffles, abundant in Perigord in France. [Perh. Ir. and Gael. pighe, pie.]

Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵

  • pie
    The beam or pole that is erected to support the gun for loading and unloading timber. Also called pie-tree.

Wikipedia Wiktionary dictionary logo

  • A pie is a type of food. Pies are usually baked, and often made in the shape of a circle or an oval. On the outside of a pie there is a sweet or savory crust, and on the inside there is a filling. Pies can be filled with sweet fruit filling, meat, or vegetables. Pie is great for desserts because of its delicious sweetness.

    Ingredients.

    A pie is baked with a shell or crust, which is usually made of pastry dough that covers or completely contains a filling of fruit, meat, fish, vegetables, cheeses, creams, chocolate, custards, nuts, or other sweet or savoury ingredients.

    Sweet Pies.

    Some of these pies are pies in name only, such as the Boston cream pie, which is a cake. Many fruit and berry pies are very similar, varying only the fruit used in filling.

    Variations of pie.

    There are many different kinds of pie. People from different countries often have their own different type of pie.

    Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand.

    Meat pies with fillings such as steak and cheese, steak and kidney, minced beef or chicken and mushroom are popular in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand as take-away snacks. They are also served with chips as an alternative to fish and chips at British chip shops. The residents of Wigan near Greater Manchester are so renowned for their preference for this food-stuff that they are often referred to as "Pie Eaters" (though the historical reasons for this title are disputed). In honour of this, the main ingredient of a 'Wigan kebab' is the pie, whi

Part of speech

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  • pie, verb, present, 1st person singular of pie (infinitive).
  • pie, verb (infinitive).
  • pie, noun, singular of pies.

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