'PIE' definitions:

Definition of 'pie'

From: WordNet
noun
Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top
noun
A prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages [syn: Proto-Indo European, PIE]

Definition of 'Pie'

From: GCIDE
  • Pie \Pie\, n. [F. pie, L. pica; cf. picus woodpecker, pingere to paint; the bird being perhaps named from its colors. Cf. Pi, Paint, Speight.]
  • 1. (Zool.) (a) A magpie. (b) Any other species of the genus Pica, and of several allied genera. [Written also pye.] [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (R. C. Ch.) The service book. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Pritn.) Type confusedly mixed. See Pi. [1913 Webster]
  • By cock and pie, an adjuration equivalent to "by God and the service book." --Shak.
  • Tree pie (Zool.), any Asiatic bird of the genus Dendrocitta, allied to the magpie.
  • Wood pie. (Zool.) See French pie, under French. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Pie'

From: GCIDE
  • Pie \Pie\, n. [OE. pie, pye; cf. Ir. & Gael. pighe pie, also Gael. pige an earthen jar or pot. Cf. Piggin.]
  • 1. An article of food consisting of paste baked with something in it or under it; as, chicken pie; venison pie; mince pie; apple pie; pumpkin pie. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. See Camp, n., 5. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
  • Pie crust, the paste of a pie. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Pie'

From: GCIDE
  • Pie \Pie\, v. t. See Pi. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'pie'

From: GCIDE
  • Pi \Pi\ (p[imac]), n. [See Pica, Pie magpie, service-book.] (Print.) A mass of type confusedly mixed or unsorted. [Written also pie.] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'pie'

From: GCIDE
  • Pi \Pi\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pied; p. pr. & vb. n. Pieing.] (Print.) To put into a mixed and disordered condition, as type; to mix and disarrange the type of; as, to pi a form. [Written also pie.] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'pie'

From: GCIDE
  • Camp \Camp\ (k[a^]mp), n. [F. camp, It. campo, fr. L. campus plant, field; akin to Gr. kh^pos garden. Cf. Campaign, Champ, n.]
  • 1. The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner. [1913 Webster]
  • Forming a camp in the neighborhood of Boston. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A single hut or shelter; as, a hunter's camp. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. (Agric.) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; -- called also burrow and pie. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
  • 6. [Cf. OE. & AS. camp contest, battle. See champion.] An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England. --Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
  • Camp bedstead, a light bedstead that can be folded up onto a small space for easy transportation.
  • camp ceiling (Arch.), a kind ceiling often used in attics or garrets, in which the side walls are inclined inward at the top, following the slope of the rafters, to meet the plane surface of the upper ceiling.
  • Camp chair, a light chair that can be folded up compactly for easy transportation; the seat and back are often made of strips or pieces of carpet.
  • Camp fever, typhus fever.
  • Camp follower, a civilian accompanying an army, as a sutler, servant, etc.
  • Camp meeting, a religious gathering for open-air preaching, held in some retired spot, chiefly by Methodists. It usually last for several days, during which those present lodge in tents, temporary houses, or cottages.
  • Camp stool, the same as camp chair, except that the stool has no back.
  • Flying camp (Mil.), a camp or body of troops formed for rapid motion from one place to another. --Farrow.
  • To pitch (a) camp, to set up the tents or huts of a camp.
  • To strike camp, to take down the tents or huts of a camp. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'pie'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Acronyms for 'PIE'

From: V.E.R.A.
  • Personal Interactive Electronics [division] (Apple)
  • Position Independent Executable

Words containing 'PIE'