Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word PIE
PIE
Definitions of PIE
- A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling.
- Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
- A pie chart.
- A paper plate covered in cream, shaving foam or custard that is thrown or rubbed in someone’s face for comical purposes, to raise money for charity, or as a form of political protest; a custard pie; a cream pie.
- (Northeastern US) A pizza.
- (figuratively) The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
- (cricket) An especially badly bowled ball.
- (slang) The vulva.
- (transitive) To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
- (transitive) To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
- (obsolete) Magpie.
- (historical) The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to of a rupee or of an anna.
- (zoology) Ellipsis of pie-dog: an Indian breed, a stray dog in Indian contexts.
- (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 27.9 cm.
- (linguistics, anthropology, etc.) Initialism of Proto-Indo-European.
- Initialism of public-interest entity.
- (Singapore, in road signs) Initialism of Pan Island Expressway.
- (letterpress) Alternative form of pi ("metal type that has been spilled, mixed together, or disordered").
- (transitive) Alternative form of pi ("to spill or mix printing type").
Number of letters
3
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using PIE in a Sentence
- The word "foot", in the sense of meaning the "terminal part of the leg of a vertebrate animal" comes from Old English fot, from Proto-Germanic *fot (source also of Old Frisian fot, Old Saxon fot, Old Norse fotr, Danish fod, Swedish fot, Dutch voet, Old High German fuoz, German Fuß, Gothic fotus, all meaning "foot"), from PIE root *ped- "foot".
- alt=A pie chart showing the results of a hypothetical survey, in which the question asked was "Do you enjoy responding to surveys?" The chart shows that 99.
- The Proto-Indo-Europeans are a hypothetical prehistoric ethnolinguistic group of Eurasia who spoke Proto-Indo-European (PIE), the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family.
- In user interface design, a pie menu or radial menu is a circular context menu where selection depends on direction.
- In film, Elizabeth is best known for her role as Nadia in the American Pie film series (1999–2001; 2012), which saw her have a supporting role in the first film, a lead ensemble role in the second film, and a cameo role in the fourth film.
- January 15 – The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (Knights Hospitaller), founded to protect pilgrims to the Holy Land, is formally recognized by the papal bull (proclamation) Pie Postulatio Voluntatis issued by Pope Paschal II.
- The modern Vardar is thought to derive from an earlier *Vardários, which may ultimately derive from Proto-Indo-European (PIE) *(s)wordo-wori- "black water".
- A mince pie (also mincemeat pie in North America, and fruit mince pie in Australia and New Zealand) is a sweet pie of English origin filled with mincemeat, being a mixture of fruit, spices and suet.
- Shortcrust is a type of pastry often used for the base of a tart, quiche, pie, or (in the British English sense) flan.
- Grimm's law, also known as the First Germanic Sound Shift or Rask's rule, is a set of sound laws describing the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) stop consonants as they developed in Proto-Germanic in the first millennium BC, first discovered by Rasmus Rask but systematically put forward by Jacob Grimm.
- American Pie (Groove Holmes album), a 1972 album by Groove Holmes featuring a cover of the above song.
- Romero described the film as a "tragedy about how a lack of human communication causes chaos and collapse even in this small little pie slice of society".
- Boston cream pie, a round cake that is split and filled with a custard or cream filling and frosted with chocolate.
- According to some linguists the name Semele is Thraco-Phrygian, derived from a PIE root meaning 'earth'.
- The modern usage in Scotland is Scottish or Scots, and the word Scotch is now only applied to specific products, mostly food or drink, such as Scotch whisky, Scotch pie and Scotch broth.
- The second element has been connected to either a PIE *nogʷo-, either "naked, nude" or "tree", or with the verbal root *nebh- "burst out, be damp".
- Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel has also proposed to derive it from PIE *g(h)eubh- ('curve, bend'), because bronze was hammered and bended, contrary to iron that was melted, and Václav Blažek has suggested a relation with the Lithuanian goddess of fire Gabija.
- A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough casing that contains a filling of various sweet or savoury ingredients.
- In 1803, following Ohio's admission to the Union, a wedge, or pie shaped, remnant of the former Northwest Territory along Ohio's southwestern border was ceded to Indiana Territory and organized as Dearborn County.
- A typical Chocolate Roll is made from pie dough spread with a mixture of cocoa powder, shortening, and sugar, then rolled up and baked.
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