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pie
Pronunciation: (pī), [key]—
n.
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,
a. the illusory prospect of future benefits:
Political promises are often pie in the sky.
b. a state of perfect happiness; utopia:
to promise pie in the sky. pie
Pronunciation: (pī), [key]—
n.
magpie.
pie
Pronunciation: (pī), [key]—
n., v.t., pied, pie•ing.
pi
2.
pie
Pronunciation: (pī), [key]—
n.
(in England before the Reformation) a book of ecclesiastical rules for finding the particulars of the service for the day.
Also,pye.pie
Pronunciation: (pī), [key]—
n.
a former bronze coin of India, the 12th part of an anna. Cf.
naya paisa, paisa, pice. PIE
Proto-Indo-European.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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