PIEabbr. Proto-Indo-Europeanpie 1 (p?)n.1. A dish composed of fruit, meat, cheese, or other ingredients baked over, under, or surrounded by a crust of pastry or other dough.2. A layer cake having cream, custard, or jelly filling.3. Informal A pizza.4. Something similar to or resembling pie: mud pie.5. A whole that can be portioned out: “That would … enlarge the economic pie by making the most productive use of every investment dollar” (New York Times).Idiom: pie in the sky An empty wish or promise: “To outlaw deficits … is pie in the sky” (Howard H. Baker, Jr.).[Middle English.]pie 2 (p?)n. See magpie.[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin p?ca.]pie 3 (p?)n. A former unit of currency of India.[Hindi p?’?, from Sanskrit p?dik?, quarter, from p?t, pad-, foot, leg; see ped- in Indo-European roots.]pie 4 (p?)n. An almanac of services used in the English church before the Reformation.[Medieval Latin p?ca.]pie 5 (p?)n. & v. Printing Variant of pi2.American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.pie (pa?) n1. (Cookery) a baked food consisting of a sweet or savoury filling in a pastry-lined dish, often covered with a pastry crust2. have a finger in the pie a. to have an interest in or take part in some activityb. to meddle or interfere3. pie in the sky illusory hope or promise of some future good; false optimism[C14: of obscure origin]pie (pa?) n (Animals) an archaic or dialect name for magpie[C13: via Old French from Latin p?ca magpie; related to Latin p?cus woodpecker]pie (pa?) n, vb (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) printing a variant spelling of pi2pie (pa?) n (Currencies) a very small former Indian coin worth one third of a pice[C19: from Hindi p?’?, from Sanskrit p?dik? a fourth]pie (pa?) or pyen (Ecclesiastical Terms) history a book for finding the Church service for any particular day[C15: from Medieval Latin pica almanac; see pica1]pie (pa?) adjbe pie on informal NZ to be keen on[from M?ori pai ana]Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014pie1 (pa?) n. 1. a pastry crust filled with fruit, meat, pudding, etc., and baked, often with a top crust. 2. a layer cake with a cream or custard filling: Boston cream pie. 3. a total or whole that can be divided: They want a bigger part of the profit pie. 4. an activity or affair: I’m sure he had a finger in the pie. Idioms: pie in the sky, the illusory prospect of future benefits. [1275?1325; Middle English; of obscure orig.] pie3 (pa?) n., v.t. pied, pie?ing. pi 2 . PIE Proto-Indo-European. Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.piechiffon – First a fabric, then a type of pie.egg wash – Egg and milk or water brushed on bread, pie, etc. before baking is called egg wash.pizza – Literally “pie” in Italian, making “pizza pie” redundant. It?s plural is pizza.lid – The top crust of a pie.Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.Pie a collection of things made up into a heap; a confused mass; a collection of rules.Examples: pie of coals, 1526; of green fodder, 1887; of mangolds, 1848; of manure; of potatoes, 1791; of unsorted type (as when a printing forme has been broken down).Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.piePast participle: piedGerund: pieingImperativePresentPreteritePresent ContinuousPresent PerfectPast ContinuousPast PerfectFutureFuture PerfectFuture ContinuousPresent Perfect ContinuousFuture Perfect ContinuousPast Perfect ContinuousConditionalPast ConditionalImperativepiepiePresentI pieyou piehe/she/it pieswe pieyou piethey piePreteriteI piedyou piedhe/she/it piedwe piedyou piedthey piedPresent ContinuousI am pieingyou are pieinghe/she/it is pieingwe are pieingyou are pieingthey are pieingPresent PerfectI have piedyou have piedhe/she/it has piedwe have piedyou have piedthey have piedPast ContinuousI was pieingyou were pieinghe/she/it was pieingwe were pieingyou were pieingthey were pieingPast PerfectI had piedyou had piedhe/she/it had piedwe had piedyou had piedthey had piedFutureI will pieyou will piehe/she/it will piewe will pieyou will piethey will pieFuture PerfectI will have piedyou will have piedhe/she/it will have piedwe will have piedyou will have piedthey will have piedFuture ContinuousI will be pieingyou will be pieinghe/she/it will be pieingwe will be pieingyou will be pieingthey will be pieingPresent Perfect ContinuousI have been pieingyou have been pieinghe/she/it has been pieingwe have been pieingyou have been pieingthey have been pieingFuture Perfect ContinuousI will have been pieingyou will have been pieinghe/she/it will have been pieingwe will have been pieingyou will have been pieingthey will have been pieingPast Perfect ContinuousI had been pieingyou had been pieinghe/she/it had been pieingwe had been pieingyou had been pieingthey had been pieingConditionalI would pieyou would piehe/she/it would piewe would pieyou would piethey would piePast ConditionalI would have piedyou would have piedhe/she/it would have piedwe would have piedyou would have piedthey would have piedCollins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011