PIE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does PIE mean? 

• PIE (noun)
  The noun PIE has 2 senses:

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

  Familiarity information: PIE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("pie" is a kind of...):

pastry (any of various baked foods made of dough or batter)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pie"):

tart (a small open pie with a fruit filling)

cobbler; deep-dish pie (a pie made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit)

shoofly pie (open pie filled with a mixture of sweet crumbs and molasses)

mince pie (pie containing mincemeat)

apple pie (pie (with a top crust) containing sliced apples and sugar)

lemon meringue pie (pie containing lemon custard and topped with meringue)

blueberry pie (pie containing blueberries and sugar)

rhubarb pie (pie containing diced rhubarb and much sugar)

pecan pie (pie made of pecans and sugar and corn syrup and butter and eggs)

pumpkin pie (pie made of mashed pumpkin and milk and eggs and sugar)

squash pie (similar to pumpkin pie but made with winter squash instead of pumpkin)

patty (small pie or pasty)

meat pie (pie made with meat or fowl enclosed in pastry or covered with pastry or biscuit dough)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

PIE; Proto-Indo European

Hypernyms ("PIE" is a kind of...):

Indo-European; Indo-European language; Indo-Hittite (the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia)

 Context examples 

I fancy she was wanted about the mince-pies.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Just wait ten years, and see if we don't, said Amy, who sat in a corner making mud pies, as Hannah called her little clay models of birds, fruit, and faces.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“How's the pie?” he said, rousing himself.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You might have offered to stay two or three weeks to wrap things up, since Mercury is currently retrograde, and you wanted to leave things in apple-pie order.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Lord Keith will want his finger in the pie, but that’s for the Courts to settle.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So noble a pie, such tender pigeons, and sugar in the gravy instead of salt!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He tolerated Mr. Morse, wondering the while how it felt to eat such humble pie.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“As you will, Livesey,” said the squire; “Hawkins has earned better than cold pie.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

There were a couple of brace of cold woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of ancient and cobwebby bottles.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Besides, there were fewer to feed; the sick could eat little; our breakfast-basins were better filled; when there was no time to prepare a regular dinner, which often happened, she would give us a large piece of cold pie, or a thick slice of bread and cheese, and this we carried away with us to the wood, where we each chose the spot we liked best, and dined sumptuously.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)