pie
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /pʌɪ/
- (US) enPR: pī, IPA: /paɪ/, SAMPA: /paI/
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Audio (US) (file) - Homophones: pi, π
- Rhymes: -aɪ
[edit] Etymology 1
From Middle English, unknown origin.
[edit] Noun
pie (countable and uncountable; plural pies)
- 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.
- 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.
- (Northeastern US) Pizza.
- (figuratively) The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
- 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. — Evan Thomas, Why It’s Time to Worry, Newsweek 2010-12-04
- (letterpress typography) A disorderly mess of spilt type.
- (cricket) An especially badly bowled ball.
- (pejorative) a gluttonous person.
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pie (third-person singular simple present pies, present participle pieing, simple past and past participle pied)
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive) To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
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[edit] Etymology 2
From Old French pie, from Latin pica, feminine of picus (“woodpecker”)
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pie (plural pies)
[edit] Etymology 3
From Hindi (pāī, “quarter”), from Sanskrit पादिका (pādikā).
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- (historical) The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to 1/192 of a Rupee or 1/12 of an anna.
- 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.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes’, The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales, Folio Society 2005, p. 117:
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pie
- Piously.
- 1922, Ivan H. Krestanoff (tr.), “En la tombejo”, in Nuntempaj Rakontoj[1], Leipzig: Ferdinand Hirt & Sohn, translation of original by G. P. Stamatov, page 15:
- Nadja pie stariĝis apud la kruco.
- Nadia piously stood next to the cross.
- Nadja pie stariĝis apud la kruco.
- 1922, Ivan H. Krestanoff (tr.), “En la tombejo”, in Nuntempaj Rakontoj[1], Leipzig: Ferdinand Hirt & Sohn, translation of original by G. P. Stamatov, page 15:
[edit] French
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From Latin pica.
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pie f. (plural pies)
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pie f.
- Feminine plural form of pio
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pie
- vocative masculine singular of pius
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pius (comparative magis pius, superlative piisimus)
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pie
- At.
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pie
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English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin 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
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- IPA: /pje/
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pie m. (plural pies)
- foot.
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pie (infinitive piar)
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