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Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling. (Savory pies are more popular in the UK and sweet pies are more popular in the US, so "pie" without qualification has different connotations in these dialects.)
- (letterpress typography) Alternative form of pi (“metal type that has been spilled, mixed together, or disordered”).
- (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 27.9 cm.
- (zoology) Ellipsis of pie-dog (“an Indian breed, a stray dog in Indian contexts”).
- (historical) A former low-denomination coin of northern India.
- (obsolete) Magpie.
- Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
- (Northeastern US) A pizza.
- 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.
- (figuratively) The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
- (cricket) An especially badly bowled ball.
- A pie chart.
- (informal) Something very easy; a piece of cake.
- (slang) The vulva.
- (slang) A kilogram of drugs, especially cocaine.
Verbi
- (transitive) Alternative form of pi (“to spill or mix printing type”).
- (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.
- (transitive, UK, slang, often followed by off) To ignore (someone).
Esimerkit
- The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert.
- Shepherd's pie is made of mince covered with mashed potato.
- 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
- Pies are best for comparing the components of only one or two totals.
- "Yeah, take it off!" "SHOW US YOUR PIE!" The brunette opened the catch on her G-string and let the sequinned cloth slip down, teasing them with it.
- Yeah, some guys like to eat the old hairy pie. Women, too, or so I've heard.
- I'd like to see someone pie the chairman of the board.
- 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.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | pied | Imperfekti | pied |
| Partisiipin preesens | pieing | Monikko | pies |
| Monikko | pie | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | pies |