[pahy] 
| 1. | a baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped with a pastry crust: apple pie; meat pie. |
| 2. | a layer cake with a filling of custard, cream jelly, or the like: chocolate 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: He has his finger in the political pie too. |
| 5. | pizza. |
| 6. | easy as pie, extremely easy or simple. |
| 7. | nice as pie, extremely well-behaved, agreeable, or the like: The children were nice as pie. |
| 8. | pie in the sky,
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[pahy] | a former bronze coin of India, the 12th part of an anna. |
[pahy] noun, plural pies, verb, pied, pi⋅ing.| 1. | printing types mixed together indiscriminately. |
| 2. | any confused mixture; jumble. |
| 3. | to reduce (printing types) to a state of confusion. |
| 4. | to jumble. |
| mag·pie (māg'pī') n.
[Mag, a name used in proverbs about chatterers (a nickname for Margaret) + pie2.] |
| pi 2 also pie (pī) n. pl. pis also pies An amount of type that has been jumbled or thrown together at random. v. pied (pīd) also pied, pi·ing also pie·ing, pies also pies v. tr. To jumble or mix up (type). v. intr. To become jumbled. [Origin unknown.] |
| pie 1 (pī) n.
[Middle English.] |
| pie 2 (pī) n. See magpie. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin pīca.] |
| pie 3 (pī) n. A monetary unit formerly in use in India and Pakistan. [Hindi pā'ī, from Sanskrit pādikā, quarter, from pāt, pad-, foot, leg; see ped- in Indo-European roots.] |
| pie 4 (pī) n. An almanac of services used in the English church before the Reformation. [Medieval Latin pīca.] |
| pie 5 (pī) n. & v. Printing Variant of pi2. |
| PIE abbr. Proto-Indo-European |
| Pro·to-In·do-Eur·o·pe·an (prō'tō-ĭn'dō-yŏŏr'ə-pē'ən) n. The reconstructed language that was the ancestor of the Indo-European languages. adj. Of, relating to, or being Proto-Indo-European or one of its reconstructed linguistic features. |
The irrational number obtained by dividing the length of the diameter of a circle into its circumference. Pi is approximately 3.1416. The sign for pi is π.
pI (pē'ī')
n.
The pH value for the isoelectric point of a given substance in solution.
| pi (pī) Pronunciation Key
An irrational number that has a numerical value of 3.14159265358979... and is represented by the symbol π. It expresses the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle and appears in many mathematical expressions. |
pie
In addition to the idiom beginning with pie, also see apple-pie order; easy as pie; eat crow (humble pie); finger in the pie; slice of the pie.
| PIE Proto-Indo-European |
pie
dish made by lining a shallow container with pastry and filling the container with a sweet or savoury mixture. A top crust may be added; the pie is baked until the crust is crisp and the filling is cooked through. Pies have been popular in the United States since colonial times, so much so that apple pie has become symbolic of traditional American home cooking. The typical American pie is round, 8-10 inches (20-25 cm) in diameter, 2-3 inches (5-8 cm) thick, and usually contains a sweet filling of fruit, custard, or a pastry cream. Some American specialties are pecan pie, pumpkin custard pie (traditionally served on Thanksgiving Day), lemon pie with a soft meringue topping, and shoofly pie, a Pennsylvania Dutch (see Pennsylvania German) pie with a rich filling containing molasses.
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