HyperDic: pie

English > 2 senses of the word *pie / PIE*:
NOUN	food	pie	dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top
NOUN	communication	PIE, Proto-Indo European	a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages

pie / PIE > pronunciation
Sounds	pay'
Rhymes	magpie ... spy: 7 rhymes with pay...

English > *pie*: 2 senses > noun 1, food
Meaning	dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top.
Narrower	apple pie	pie (with a top crust) containing sliced apples and sugar
	blueberry pie	pie containing blueberries and sugar
	deep-dish pie, cobbler	A pie made of fruit with rich biscuit / biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit
	lemon meringue pie	pie containing lemon custard and topped with meringue
	meat pie	pie made with meat or fowl enclosed in pastry or covered with pastry or biscuit / biscuit dough
	mince pie	pie containing mincemeat
	patty	small pie or pasty
	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
	rhubarb pie	pie containing diced rhubarb and much sugar
	shoofly pie	open pie filled with a mixture of sweet crumbs and molasses
	squash pie	Similar to pumpkin pie but made with winter squash instead of pumpkin
	tart	A small open pie with a fruit filling
Broader	pastry	Any of various baked foods made of dough or batter
Spanish	empanada, pastel, torta
Catalan	empanada, pastís

English > *PIE*: 2 senses > noun 2, communication
Meaning	A prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages.
Synonym	Proto-Indo European
Broader	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
Catalan	protoindoeuropeu

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