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/paɪ/ · noun
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.).
The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert.
SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently. TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie, Whereof their mother daintily hath fed, Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.
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.
Pies are best for comparing the components of only one or two totals.
Programmers haven't exactly been wild about certain Microsoft policies — such as the price of the OS/2 developer's kit or the fib about how Microsoft Windows code would be pie to translate to the Presentation Manager.
"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.
Use pie when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pie means 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.).
Common synonyms include foot, proto-indo european.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert.
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