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Pie

Definition: Pie

Pie

Noun

1. Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top.

2. A prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pie" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Etymology: Pie \Pie\, noun. [French pie, Latin pica; compare to picus woodpecker, pingere to paint; the bird being perhaps named from its colors. Compare to Pi, Paint, Speight.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Pie

DomainDefinition

Satire

PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion. Cold pie was highly esteemed by the remains. Rev. Dr. Mucker (in a funeral sermon over a British nobleman) Cold pie is a detestable American comestible. That's why I'm done -- or undone -- So far from that dear London. (from the headstone of a British nobleman in Kalamazoo). Source: Devil's Dictionary.

Computing

PIE A language from CMU similar to Actus. (1994-11-29). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Literature

Pie Looking for a pie's nest (French). Looking for something you are not likely to find. (See below.)
He is in the pie's nest (French). In a fix, in great doubt, in a quandary. The pie places her nest out of reach, and fortifies it with thorny sticks, leaving only a small aperture just large enough to admit her body. She generally sits with her head towards the hole, watching against intruders.
"Je m'en vay chercher un grand peut-estre. II est au nid de la pie."- Rabclais. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Mining

A local term for an intermediate pack without supporting walls. (references)

Slang

Noun. Source: Refernece to a dessert consisting of filling. Definition: A key of cocaine, meaning the amount placed on the end of a key. Context: When taking or sharing with friends. Social Source: Illegitimate Businessmen of Harlem NY. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Indo-European languages

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Indo-European languages include 150 languages spoken by about 3 billion people, including most of the major language families of Europe and western Asia, which belong to a single superfamily.

The hypothesis that this was so was first proposed by Sir William Jones, who noticed similarities between four of the oldest languages known in his time, Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit and Persian. Systematic comparison of these and other old languages conducted by Franz Bopp supported this theory. In the 19th century, scholars used to call the group "Indo-Germanic languages". However when it became apparent that the connection is relevant to most of Europe's languages, the name was expanded to Indo-European. An example of this was the strong similarity discovered between Sanskrit and olden spoken dialects of Lithuanian.

The common ancestral (reconstructed) language is called Proto-Indo-European (PIE). There is disagreement as to the geographic location where it originated from, with Armenia and the area to the north or west of the Black Sea being prime examples of proposed candidates.

The various subgroups of the Indo-European family include:

(cf. Satem and Centum languages)

Most spoken European-languages belong to the Indo-European superfamily. There are, however, language families which do not. The Finno-Ugric language family, which includes Hungarian, Estonian, Finnish and the languages of the Saami, is an example. The Caucasian language family is another. The Basque language is unusual in that it does not appear to be related to any known languages..

The Maltese language and Turkish are two examples of languages spoken in Europe which have definite non-European origins. Turkish being Turkic, and Maltese being largely derived from Arabic

It has been proposed that Indo-European languages are part of the hypothetical Nostratic language superfamily; this theory is controversial.

Proto Indo-European

The original homeland of the speakers of Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is not known for certain, but probably lies somewhere around the Black Sea. Most of the subgroups diverged and spread out over much of Europe and the Middle East during the fourth andand third millennia BC. Discussion of PIE culture has been stalled by its association with the racist doctrines of National socialism (German and German-influenced scholars of the 19th and early 20th centuriess ominously preferred the terms "Indo-Germanic", or "Aryan"), but enormous amounts of work have been done on its structure and vocabulary. All Indo-European languages are inflected languages, and by reconstruction scholars were able to see that PIE was probably mildly inflected (less than Latin but more than modern English). In speech, it is conjectured to have used the following phonemes:

Proto-Indo-European sound system
CONSONANTS labials coronals palatovelars velars labiovelars
voiceless stops p t k^ k kw
voiced stops b d g^ g gw
breathy stops bh dh g^h gh gwh
nasals m n      
fricatives   s h1, h2, h3
liquids, glides w r, l j    

Notes:
  1. The symbol ^ indicates [k]- or [g]-like sounds which underwent a characteristic change in the Satem languages; they were possibly palatalised velars ("ky, gy") in Proto-Indo-European.
  2. Raised w stands for labialization, or lip-rounding accompanying the articulation of velar sounds ([kw] is a sound similar to English qu in queen).
  3. Raised h stands for aspiration.
  4. The symbols h1, h2 and h3 stand for three hypothetical "laryngeal" phonemes.
  5. A colon (:) is employed to indicate vowel length.

As PIE is not directly attested, all PIE sounds and words are reconstructed (using comparative method). The standard convention is to mark reconstructed (and therefore more or less hypothetical) forms with an asterisk, e.g. *wodr 'water', *k^wo:n 'dog', *trejes 'three (masculine)', etc. Many of the words in the modern Indo-European languages are derived from such "protowords" via regular sound change (e.g., Grimm's law).

Recent theories have been proposed by the linguist John Colarusso that the Caucasian languages, particularly the Northwest Caucasian family, spoken in Georgia and Turkey, may be the closest relatives to the Indo-European stock. While these are not widely held theories, substantial evidence investigated by this linguist seems to support their theory. In particular, the one-vowel hypothesis which has been put forward for Indo-European would be borne out by the usage of substantial secondary articulation like that found in the Northwest Caucasian languages and, indeed, in the hypothesised PIE. Also, the Northwest Caucasian languages preserve a large number of guttural phonemes which may be the modern equivalents of PIE "laryngeals".

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Pie

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In cooking, a pie is a baked dish with a pastry shell that covers or completely contains a filling of meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, cheeses, creams, chocolate, custards or any other sweet or savoury ingredient you can think to put inside. Pies can be either 'one-crust', where the filling is placed in a dish and covered with a pastry top before baking, or 'two-crust', with the filling completely enclosed in the pastry shell. Some pies have only a bottom crust, generally if they have a sweet filling that does not require cooking. These bottom-crust-only pies may be known as tarts or tartlets. One example of a savoury bottom-crust-only pie is a quiche.

Blind-baking is used to develop a crust's crispiness, and help it from getting soggy under the burden of a very liquidy filling. If the crust of the pie requires much more cooking than the chosen filling, it may also be blind-baked before the filling is added and then only briefly cooked or refrigerated.

Pie fillings range in size from tiny bitesize party pies or small tartlets, to single-serve pies (e.g. cornish pasty) and larger pies baked in a dish and eaten by the slice. The type of pasty used is matched to the filling, but it is generally either a butter-rich flaky or puff pastry, or a sturdy shortcrust pastry.

Small pies are a popular form of takeaway food in Australia, with the most ubiquitous brand being Four'n'twenty. Many bakeries and specialty stores sell gourmet pies for the most discriminating customer. A peculiarity of Adelaide cuisine is the Pie floater.

Like dumplings, many cultures have independently discovered pies as a useful and delicious way to utilize otherwise useless ingredients left over in the household.

Savoury pie recipes include:

Sweet pies include:

In Vodun, Pie is a soldier-loa who lived at the bottoms of lakes and rivers and caused floods.

Not to be confused with the number Pi, the pie menu, or Proto-Indo-European (PIE)

tarte tatin occasionally is miscategorized as a form of pie. It is actually a sweet upside-down cake.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pie."

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Pumpkin pie

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Pumpkin pie is a traditional American dessert, usually made in the late autumn and early winter, especially for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Recipe

This recipe replaces much of the sugar normally found in a pumpkin pie recipe with maple syrup. Use only real 100 percent maple syrup, not maple flavored pancake syrup, as their sugar content is different.

Ingredients

2 cups milk, scalded
2 cups pumpkin, cooked and strained
1 cup Maple Syrup
1/8 cup sugar
1 tablespoon flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 large eggs, beaten
1 unbaked nine inch pie shell

Procedure

Blend above ingredients, except the pie shell, together. Pour into the unbaked pie shell. Bake at 350° F (175 °C) for 45 minutes. Let cool and serve.

Decoration

Pumpkin pie has no top crust, which makes most forms of decoration impossible, but for a sexier pie, put dollops of real whipped cream on each slice, or add a decorative rim to the side crust with artfully layered dough cut-outs, in the shape of fall leaves, squash or pumpkins.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pumpkin pie."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Pie

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

PIE

EnglishPulmonary Interstitial EmphysemaN/A

PIE

FrenchPrincipaux indicateurs économiquesEconomics, Statistics

PIE

SpanishProductor independiente de energíaElectrical Engineering, Statistics

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Pie

Synonym: Proto-Indo European (n). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: jumbling (publishing & graphic arts).

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Synonyms within Context: Pie

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Action

Be an actor; take a part in, act a part in, play a part in, perform a part in; participate in; have a hand in, have a finger in the pie; have to do with; be a party to, be a participator in; bear a hand, lend a hand; pull an oar, run in a race; mix oneself up with; (meddle).

Activity

Have a hand in; (act in); take an active part, put in one's oar, have a finger in the pie, mix oneself up with, trouble, one's head about, intrigue; agitate.

Cause

Conduce to; (tend to); contribute; have a hand in the pie, have a finger in the pie; determine, decide, turn the scale; have a common origin; derive its origin; (effect).

Cooperation

Be a party to, lend oneself to; chip in; participate; have a hand in, have a finger in the pie; take part in, bear part in; second; (aid); take the part of, play the game of; espouse a cause, espouse a quarrel.

Food

Beef, bisquit, bun; cornstarch; cookie, cooky; cracker, doughnut; fatling; hardtack, hoecake, hominy; mutton, pilot bread; pork; roti, rusk, ship biscuit; veal; joint, piece de resistance, roast and boiled; remove, entremet; releve, hash, rechauffe, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince; pottage, potage, broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat; pie, pasty, volauvent; pudding, omelet; pastry; sweets; kickshaws; condiment.

Alligator pear, apple; apple slump; artichoke; ashcake, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack; atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer, barbecue, beefsteak; beet root; blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey; chowder, chupatty, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash, supawn, trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut.

Interposition

Interfere, put in an oar, thrust one's nose in; intrude, obtrude; have a finger in the pie; introduce the thin end of the wedge; thrust in; (insert).

Preparation

In full feather, in best bib and tucker; in harness, at harness; in the saddle, in arms, in battle array, in war paint; up in arms; armed at all points, armed to the teeth, armed cap a pie; sword in hand; booted and spurred.

Printing

Typography; stereotype, electrotype, aprotype; type, black letter, font, fount; pi, pie; capitals; (letters); brevier, bourgeois, pica;

Submission

Eat dirt, eat the leek, eat humble pie; bite the dust, lick the dust; be at one's feet, fall at one's feet; craven; crouch before, throw oneself at the feet of; swallow the leek, swallow the pill; kiss the rod; turn the other cheek; avaler les couleuvres, gulp down.

Tribunal

Assize, eyre; wardmote, burghmote; barmote; superior courts of Westminster; court of record, court oyer and terminer, court assize, court of appeal, court of error; High court of Judicature, High court of Appeal; Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; Star Chamber; Court of Chancery, Court of King's or Queen's Bench, Court of Exchequer, Court of Common Pleas, Court of Probate, Court of Arches, Court of Admiralty; Lords Justices' court, Rolls court, Vice Chancellor's court, Stannary court, Divorce court, Family court, Palatine court, county court, district court, police court; sessions; quarter sessions, petty sessions; court-leet, court-baron, court of pie poudre, court of common council; board of green cloth.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Pie

English words defined with "pie": a la mode, apple pie, apple tart ♦ Baked-meat, blueberry pie ♦ Chewet, Cornish pasty, custard pie ♦ Flawn, French pie ♦ kidney pie ♦ lemon meringue pie ♦ meat pie, mince pie, Mince-meat, mud pie ♦ pasty, patty, pecan pie, Perigord pie, Piapec, Piarist, Pie crust, pie shell, pizza, pizza pie, pork pie, potpie, pumpkin pie, Pye ♦ rhubarb pie ♦ Sea pie, Sea piet, Sea pye, Sea pyot, shepherd's pie, shoofly pie, short, squash pie ♦ tart, To eat dirt ♦ Umble pie ♦ Warden pie. (references)
Specialty definitions using "pie": Actus ♦ baker, cake, baker, pastry, baker, pie, BEHAVIOR ♦ cake maker, Chatterpie, circular chart, circular diagram, circular graph, circular graphic, Cock and Pie, Cold Pigeon, cone chocolate dipper, cone racker, cook, pastry, cook, pie, Court of Pie-powder ♦ Dusty-foot ♦ exploded circular graph, exploded circular graphic, exploded pie, exploded-pie chart, exploded-pie diagram, exploded-pie graph ♦ Finger in the Pie, FROZEN PIE MAKER ♦ Humble Pie ♦ Misnomers, MIXER, DRY-FOOD PRODUCTS ♦ NOVELTY WORKER ♦ pie chef, Pie Corner, pie diagram, PIE MAKER, Pie Poudre, Pluck his Goose ♦ Resurrection Pie ♦ single-crusted pie ♦ TLAs ♦ Umble-pie ♦ Warden-pie ♦ xor. (references)
Etymologies containing "pie": Tapper. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Pie" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Asturian (foot), French (magpie, piebald, pied, Pinto, Pius), Latin (adv, affectionate, conscientious, dutiful, dutifully, godly, holy, patriotic, pious, piously, religiously, tender), Macedonian (to drink), Spanish (base, bottom, butt, catchword, f, foot, footing, haunch, leg, paw, stalk, stem).

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Modern Usage: Pie

DomainUsage

Screenplays

First, we go in there and get wrecked, then we eat a pork pie, then we drop some Surmontil-50's each (Withnail and I; writing credit: Bruce Robinson.)

Somebody who sold you to Humble Pie for fifty bucks and a case of beer (Almost Famous; writing credit: Cameron Crowe)

You're the pansies in my garden, the cream in my mocha and java, the berries in my pie. (The Hollywood Revue of 1929; writing credit: Al Boasberg; Robert E. Hopkins)

You keep right on tattling, sweetie pie. (The Oblongs...; writing credit: Ana Katz)

That's pie country (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Lyrics

We weren't searchin' for some pie in the sky summit (Night Moves; performing artist: BOB SEGER; writing credit: Bob Seger)

I'll have another piece-a apple pie, you know it don't seem right ("Ode to Billy Joe"; performing artist: Bobbie Gentry)

Still tryin' to get a peace of the apple pie (Fantastic Voyage; performing artist: Coolio)

We got our dirty little fingers in everybody's pie (Dirty Laundry; performing artist: Don Henley)

Bye, bye Miss American Pie ("American Pie"; performing artist: Don McLean)

Movie/TV Titles

A Pie in the Sky (1965)

Fur Pie (1960)

Castillos en pie de paz (1956)

Morir de pie (1955)

Los Árboles mueren de pie (1951)

Song Titles

Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie (performing artist: Jay and The Techniques)

American Pie (performing artist: Madonna)

Peanut Butter Pie (performing artist: Tom Paxton)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Pie

DomainTitle

References

  • Eskimo Pie Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Pork Pie Appetisers and Dips (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • American Pie - Unrated Version (reference)

  • American Pie 2 Collector's Edition - Widescreen (Unrated) (reference)

  • American Pie/American Pie 2 (Unrated/ Widescreen) (reference)

  • American Pie - Rated Edition (Special Edition) (reference)

  • American Pie 2 (Unrated Special Edition) (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Pie

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Photo Album: Pie

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

(2) color slides show different types of pie. (1) slice of lemon meringue, (1) slice of coconut cream with a dollop of whipped cream. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).

Shown is an apple pie nicely displayed on a table with a single slice on a plate and a lily lying nearby. Credit: Len Rizzi (photographer).

Pie chart showing AIDS Cases Reported in 1996 and Estimated 1996 Population by Race/Ethnicity, United States. Credit: CDC.

Tis a pie, Your Majesty, he said simply, an apple pie. Credit: Library of Congress.

No'm, I habn't seed your chicken pie, but dat dog Ponto hab ben lookin' mighty fat and guilty all de afternoon. Credit: Library of Congress.

And when the pie is opened and the birds begin to sign [sic] isn't that a pretty dish to set before the king / Bart. Credit: Library of Congress.

Charlie Hughes: no more pie, thank you, but if you could help me to a little of the cake, I should like it. Credit: Library of Congress.

Miss Signe Holmer, Queen of the Michigan Cherry Festival, presenting a cherry pie to Katsuji Debuchi, Japanese Ambassador to the United States, at the Japanese Embassy in Washington. Left to right: Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, Miss Holmer, Am. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mrs. Marie R. Turner, and David Donoho at a pie and box supper. Many parents and young people from the school and nearby communities attend the pie and box supper given by the school to raise money for additional repairs and supplies. Each box or pie is a. Credit: Library of Congress.

Many parents and young people from the school and nearby communities attend the pie and box supper, given by the school to raise money for additional repairs and supplies. Each box or pie is auctioned off to the highest bidder, sometimes bringing a good d. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Pie

AuthorQuotation

H. Rap Brown

Violence is as American as cherry pie.

Jonathan Swift

Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Pie

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

So you get a cup of coffee and a piece pie.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Pie

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

In terms of market share, Telkom can only go backwards from 100 percent, but the size of the pie will increase substantially. (references)

The opening of Siemens fiber optics plant in early 1997 drastically changed the distribution pie chart of this market, traditionally dominated by Pirelli. (references)

Active franchisers are in the fast food, ethnic fast food, classic restaurant, pizza, ice cream, cafe, croissant and cheese pie, bakery, and pastry subsectors of food. Over 25 of these companies are Greek. (references)

Economic History

Taiwan

The chronic budget deficit has led to an increase in outstanding public debt from 6% of GNP in the early 1990s to 12% in 1999 and 13.7% in 2000. This ratio may exceed 15 percent by the end of 2001. As a result, debt service payments for the first time exceeded the national defense budget and claimed the largest share of the central budget pie in FY2000. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

BEHAVIOR, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding. The word seems to be somewhat loosely used in Dr. Jamrach Holobom's translation of the following lines from the Dies Irae: Recordare, Jesu pie, Quod sum causa tuae viae. Ne me perdas illa die. Pray remember, sacred Savior, Whose the thoughtless hand that gave your Death-blow. Pardon such behavior.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Pie

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Paul Burrell

I wouldn't mind bringing the Royal Butler Range to America or the Butler's Pantry or having that little slice of Martha Stewart's pie. I believe she doesn't have a big a pie as she used to have.

Sarah Ferguson

You can have baked beans on toast. You can have steak and kidney pie. You can have fish and chips. What do you mean not famous! Fish and chips. Nothing better. Friday night. Fish and chip night.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Pie

"Pie" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.57% of the time. "Pie" is used about 1,158 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.57%1,1536,662
Noun (proper)0.26%3202,518
Unclassified Items0.17%2245,945
                    Total100.00%1,158N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Pie

CountryName
USA

Eskimo Pie Corporation

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Pie

Expressions using "pie": Apple pie ♦ apple pie bed ♦ armed cap a pie ♦ as easy as pie ♦ as nice as pie ♦ blueberry pie ♦ Boston cream pie ♦ By cock and pie ♦ cheese pie ♦ cherry pie ♦ chicken pie ♦ cottage pie ♦ cow pie ♦ custard pie ♦ Dirt pie ♦ easy as pie ♦ eat humble pie ♦ exploded pie ♦ French pie ♦ have a finger in a pie ♦ have a finger in every pie ♦ have a finger in the pie ♦ it's all pie in the sky ♦ it's as easy as pie ♦ it's pie ♦ jay pie ♦ kidney pie ♦ lemon meringue pie ♦ little wood pie ♦ macaroni pie ♦ make smb. eat humble pie ♦ meat pie ♦ melton pie ♦ milk pie ♦ mince pie ♦ minced pie ♦ mud pie ♦ pecan pie ♦ Perigord pie ♦ pie a la mode ♦ pie chart ♦ pie crust ♦ pie diagram ♦ pie dish ♦ pie in the sky ♦ pie plant ♦ pie shell ♦ Pie Town ♦ pizza pie ♦ pork pie ♦ pork pie hat ♦ pudding pie ♦ pumpkin pie ♦ rhubarb pie ♦ sand pie ♦ sea pie ♦ shepherds pie ♦ shepherd's pie ♦ shoofly pie ♦ spinach pie ♦ spinage pie ♦ squab pie ♦ squash pie ♦ steak and kidney pie ♦ tamale pie ♦ To eat humble pie ♦ Tree pie ♦ Umble pie ♦ wall pie ♦ warden pie ♦ wood pie. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "pie": pie-bald, pie-based, pie-brained, pie-chart, pie-charts, pie-crust, pie-dish, pie-dog, pie-eating, pie-eyed, pie-faced, pie-filling, pie-frill, pie-in-the-sky, pie-in-the-sky-eyes-in-the-sky, pie-jarmers, pie-mash, pie-noir, pie-noire, pie-olympics, pie-pan, pie-plant, pie-powder, pie-rouge, pie-seller, pie-sellers, pie-shop, pie-warmer.

Ending with "pie": apple-pie, pork-pie.

Containing "pie": Apple-pie bed, Apple-pie order, in apple-pie order, make smb. an apple-pie bed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pie

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day		ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cream pie

11,219

cream pie movie

326

pie

3,557

cream pie pic

309

american pie

2,510

strawberry pie recipe

293

3 american pie

851

cherry pie

272

pumpkin pie

809

american pie lyrics

248

cream pie free

606

face pie

226

apple pie

501

free cream pie pic

218

american pie 2

483

internal cream pie

218

key lime pie

461

american pie soundtrack

207

apple pie recipe

438

cherry pie recipe

207

cream pie pussy

399

banana cream pie

204

pie recipe

396

shepherd pie

202

strawberry pie

395

pie crust

194

cream pie gallery

391

peanut butter pie

194

pie in the face

390

cream eating pie

194

anal cream pie

382

pecan pie

193

cow pie

377

cream pie story

190

key lime pie recipe

365

chicken pot pie

189

creamy pie

346

interracial cream pie

186

strawberry rhubarb pie

343

shepards pie

183
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Pie

Language Translations for "pie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

tert (tart). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

tortë (cake, flan, pastry), shtrudel, rrëmujë (alarm, bustle, clutter, disarray, disorder, disturbance, dust, farrago, hash, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, jumble, litter, mess, mix up, moil, muss, pandemonium, pell mell, pother, roistering, snafu, tangle, topsy turvy, topsy-turvydom, tumble, upheaval, upset, welter), laraskë (magpie), lakror, gjë e lehtë (pushover), byrek. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فطيرة (cobbler, fritter, pancake, pasty, patty, pizza). (various references)

   

Blackfoot

  

sitokihkiitaan. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

сврака (magpie), куп размесени букви (pi), вид кълвач, нещо чудесно (lulu), лесна работа (cinch, picnic, pipe, pushover, set up, snap), пай (contingent, divvy, pate, portion, share, slice, whack), пирог (tart). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

pastís (tart). (various references)

   

Cebuano

  

pay. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

饼, 餡餅 . (various references)

   

Cornish

  

pasty. (various references)

   

Czech

  

piroh, pirožka (pasty), peèivo plnìné masem, závin (roly poly), straka (magpie), ovocný koláè (tart). (various references)

   

Danish

  

tærte (tart), fisk (fish). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

pastei (pate). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

pasteĉo (pate), torto (tart). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

lagkaka (tart). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

چیزاشفته ونامرتب , کلوچه میوه دارپای , کلوچه گوشت پیچ , کلاغ زنگی (Raven), کلاغ جاره , جانورابلق , ادم ناقلا, درهم ریختن (Clutter). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

piiras (pasty, tart), piirakka (pasty, tart), paistos (baked dish). (various references)

   

French

  

tarte. (various references)

   

French Canadian

  

tarte. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

taart. (various references)

   

Galician

  

empanada. (various references)

   

German

  

Torte (cake, fancy cake, flan, gateau, tart), Pastete (pasty, pate, pudding, vol-au-vent). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πίτα (cake). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

פשטי"" (pastry, pudding), טורט (spongecake, tart). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

pite, pástétom (paste, pasty, pate), gyümölcstorta (fruit cake, short-cake). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

kue pastel. (various references)

   

Italian

  

pasticcio (botch, bungle, fix, jam, mess, pasty, Patty, trouble), pasta (dough, macaroni, noodles, pasta, paste, pastry, sammy, spread), torta (cake, tart), carattere in fascio (jumble, mixture). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

パール編み (full cup, parentheses, parenthesis, pi, pineapple, pioneer, pioneer spirit, pipe, pipe-line, pipe-organ, piping, purl stitch, tart, tube, vasectomy). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

パイ (pi, tart). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

파이. (various references)

   

Lombard

  

torta (tart). (various references)

   

Macedonian

  

pita. (various references)

   

Manx

  

pye. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

tèrt (tart), bolo (tart). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iepay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

tort (tart). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

torta (cake, dumpling, flan, tart), pastel (cake, pastry, pate, tartlet), empada (pate, patty). (various references)

   

Provencal

  

torta. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

plãcintã (mince pie, tart, turnover), pateu (mince pie, pasty, pate, Patty), zãpãci (addle, bedazzle, bewilder, confound, confuse, daze, disconcert, dizzy, embrangle, entangle, flurry, gravel, jumble, knot, maze, muddle, muss, nonplus, pose, shuffle), tort (cake, thread), haos (chaos, confusion, pell mell), coţofanã (magpie), animal bãlţat, amestecãturã (congeries, hotchpotch, mash, medley, motley, patchwork, pell mell, potpourri, promiscuity, puddle), amesteca (admix, adulterate, amalgamate, attemper, blend, combine, commingle, compound, concoct, confound, confuse, cross, dilute, embroil, entangle, immix, interblend, interfuse, intermingle, intermix, intersperse, involve, jumble, medley, melt, merge, mingle, mix, muddle, poison, rabble, shuffle, temper, work). (various references)

   

Romansch

  

turta. (various references)

   

Romany

  

miriklì (cheese pie). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

пирог (gateau, pasty). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

pighe, pigheann (a pie). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pita, pašteta (liverwurst, pasty, pate). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

torta (cake, gateau, Scone, tart, torte), pastel (baked goods, cake, pastel, pasty, pi, tart). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

tarta (tart), kuku (tart). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tårta (cake, gâteau, gateau, tart, trifle), pastej (pasty, pate, patty), paj (mince pie). (various references)

   

Thai

  

นอบน้อมมาก (eat humble pie). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

karışıklık (bedlam, bungle, cataclysm, chaos, clamor, clamour, clutter, commotion, complexity, complication, confusion, disarrangement, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disturbance, dogs dinner, embroilment, ferment, fermentation, fray, frenzy, fuss, fuss and kerfufle, grab bag, havoc, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hurly burly, imbroglio, indiscrimination, intricacy, involution, jungle, kerfufle, maziness, mess, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, perturbation, pother, pretty kettle of fish, promiscuity, Ravel, riot, rough and tumble, ruckus, ruction, snafu, snarl, snarl up, stir, swirl, tangle, topsyturvy, topsyturvydom, tumble, turbidity, turbulence, unrest, upheaval, upset, wooliness, woolliness), benekli at (piebald, Pinto), benekli hayvan, cennet (city of god, Eden, elysium, glory, heaven, paradise, pearly gates, the happy hunting grounds, the new jerusalem), gerçekleşmesi olanaksız düş, iltimas (favoritism, favour, favouritism, pull), basit iş (mickey mouse, picnic, plain sailing, pushover), kaos yaratmak, turta (flan, tart), karışıklık çıkarmak (cause a bedlam, cause a disturbance, create a disturbance, make a fuss, raise cain, raise hell), karmakarışık hurufat yığını, rüşvet (backhander, boodle, bribe, bribery, corruption, douceur, graft, inducement, kickback, palm grease, palm oil, payoff, payola, sop), saksağan (magpie), tart (flan, tart), torpil (backing, friend at court, influence, mine, oracle, pull, push, torpedo), kaos (chaos, tangle). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

gutap (pastry). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

торт (cake), бурт (clamp), пиріг (tart). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

có nhúng tay v o việc ấy, bánh pa-tê. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

pastai (pasty). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Pie

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

pica. (various references)

Medieval Latin700-1500

pie. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Pie

LanguageDateSourceLuke Chapter 12, Verse 19
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai erw th yuch mou yuch eceiV polla agaqa keimena eiV eth polla anapauou fage pie eufrainou
Latin405VulgateEt dicam animae meae anima habes multa bona posita in annos plurimos requiesce comede bibe epulare
Old English990West SaxonAnd ic secge minre sawle eala sawel þu hæfst mycele god: asette to manegum gearum. gerest þe: et. and drinc and gewista;
Middle English1395WyclifAnd Y schal seie to my soule, Soule, thou hast many goodis kept in to ful many yeeris; rest thou, ete, drynke, and make feeste.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAnd I will saye to my soule: Soule thou hast moch goodes layde vp in stoore for many yeares take thyne ease: eate drinke and be mery.
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast abundance of goods laid up for many years; take thy ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Basic English1964OgdenAnd I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Pie

LanguageLuke Chapter 12, Verse 19
CebuanoUg unya magaingon ako sa akong kalag, Kalag, gikatagan-an na ikawg ubay-ubayng bahandi alang sa daghang katuigan; pumahulay ka, kumaon ka, uminom ka, ug magsadya ka.`
Croatian