PIE


Meaning of PIE in English

I. ˈpī noun

Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin pica; akin to Latin picus woodpecker, Old High German speh

Date: 13th century

: magpie

II. noun

Etymology: Middle English

Date: 14th century

1. : a meat dish baked with biscuit or pastry crust — compare potpie

2. : a dessert consisting of a filling (as of fruit or custard) in a pastry shell or topped with pastry or both

3.

a. : affair , business

she wanted her finger…in every possible social pie — Mary Deasy

b. : a whole regarded as divisible into shares

giving the less fortunate…a larger share of the economic pie — R. M. Hutchins

III.

variant of pi

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.