Associations to the word «Pie»

Wiktionary

PIE, noun. A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling.
PIE, noun. Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
PIE, noun. (Northeastern US) Pizza.
PIE, noun. (figuratively) The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
PIE, noun. (letterpress) A disorderly mess of spilt type.
PIE, noun. (cricket) An especially badly bowled ball.
PIE, noun. (pejorative) a gluttonous person.
PIE, noun. A pie chart.
PIE, noun. (slang) The vulva.
PIE, verb. (transitive) To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
PIE, verb. (transitive) To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
PIE, noun. (obsolete) Magpie.
PIE, noun. (historical) The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to 1/192 of a rupee or 1/12 of an anna.
PIE, proper noun. Initialism of Proto-Indo-European.
PIE BIRD, noun. A hollow ceramic device shaped like an upstretched bird with open beak, used for supporting or venting a pie.
PIE BIRDS, noun. Plural of pie bird
PIE CART, noun. (AU) A form of trailer or caravan (originally a horse-drawn cart) with an elongated window along the side from which pies are sold.
PIE CARTS, noun. Plural of pie cart
PIE CHART, noun. A pictorial graph in the shape of a circle, with segments representing related proportions
PIE CHARTS, noun. Plural of pie chart
PIE FLOATER, noun. A meat pie served floating in a bowl of thick green pea soup.
PIE FLOATERS, noun. Plural of pie floater
PIE GRAPH, noun. Pie chart
PIE HOLE, noun. Alternative spelling of piehole
PIE IN THE SKY, noun. A fanciful notion; an unrealistic or ludicrous concept; the illusory promise of a desired outcome that is unlikely to happen.
PIE MENU, noun. (computing) (graphical user interface) A circular context menu, resembling a pie chart, whose slices represent commands, each equidistant from the centre of the menu.
PIE MENUS, noun. Plural of pie menu
PIE PAN, noun. (cookware) A pan for holding and shaping the dough and filling of a pie, made of a heat-conducting metal, glass or other ceramic, and (more recently) silicone.
PIE PANS, noun. Plural of pie pan
PIE SAFE, noun. A piece of furniture for storing pies or other foods not needing immediate refrigeration.
PIE SAFE, noun. A cabinet or other piece of (usually freestanding) furniture made similar to or in imitation of a pie safe.
PIE SAFES, noun. Plural of pie safe
PIE SERVER, noun. Cake slice
PIE SUPPER, noun. A social gathering where pies are auctioned to raise money for a local cause. Pie suppers are mainly associated with Ozark culture.
PIE SUPPERS, noun. Plural of pie supper

Dictionary definition

PIE, noun. Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top.
PIE, noun. A prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats