pie

/paɪ/ (bre, ipa) · [pˈaɪ] /paɪ/ (ame, ipa) · [pˈaɪ] /ˈpī/ (ame, mw)

pie — noun

  • piesingular
  • piesplural

1. a food with pastry around a sweet or savory filling, baked as one dish

1.名詞B1
釋義

a food with pastry around a sweet or savory filling, baked as one dish

例句

Grandma baked an apple pie for the family picnic by the lake.

collocation: apple pie

A hot chicken pie waited on the table after the football match.

savory filling: chicken pie

同義詞
  • tart

    often flatter and more often open on top, especially when sweet

  • quiche

    a savory pie with an egg filling, so it is more specific

  • turnover

    a smaller folded pastry, often meant for one person

文法句型

apple pie

chicken pie

a slice of pie

用法筆記

Often used with the filling name before it, as in 'apple pie' or 'meat pie'. The dish may be sweet or savory, unlike sense 2, which means pizza in regional American use.

常見錯誤

❌I ate one pie of apple.
✅I ate an apple pie.
💡English normally puts the filling before 'pie'.

2. an informal regional word for a full pizza in the northeastern United States

2.名詞
釋義

an informal regional word for a full pizza in the northeastern United States

例句

Two friends ordered a large pie with mushrooms at the station pizza counter.

regional informal use: pie = pizza

The cook slid another pie into the brick oven near the window.

同義詞
  • pizza

    the standard and much more widely used word

  • whole pizza

    makes the size clear when one pie means the full round dish

文法句型

order a pie

a large pie

one pie feeds four

用法筆記

Common in informal American English, especially in the Northeast. Distinguish from sense 1: this use means pizza, not a baked pastry dish.

常見錯誤

❌We shared two pies at lunch
✅We shared two slices of pizza at lunch.
💡in this sense, 'pie' usually means a whole pizza, not one piece.

3. the letters used as a short form for Proto-Indo-European, an ancient earlier lan

3.名詞
釋義

the letters used as a short form for Proto-Indo-European, an ancient earlier language behind many European and some Asian languages

例句

The class notes say PIE is the parent of many European languages.

abbreviation: PIE = Proto-Indo-European

Our teacher wrote PIE above Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit on the board.

同義詞

文法句型

study PIE

PIE roots

PIE sound change

用法筆記

Written in capital letters and mainly used in linguistics. In full form, people usually write or say 'Proto-Indo-European' instead.

常見錯誤

❌PIE was spoken in Rome.
✅Latin was spoken in Rome; PIE is a much earlier reconstructed language.
💡PIE names a parent language, not historical Latin.

pie — verb