Pie
noun
A type of food with a filling like meat or fruit, cooked in a pastry crust.
She made an apple pie for dessert.
Often appears as...
- make a pie
- bake a pie
noun
A type of chart or graph.
The pie chart showed the percentage of votes each candidate received.
Often appears as...
- pie chart
- draw a pie
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Technical
noun
Part of a whole.
They divided the profits and each took a slice of the pie.
Often appears as...
- piece of pie
- slice of pie
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Informal
Colloquial
noun
Something easy to achieve.
This game will be as easy as pie.
Often appears as...
- easy as pie
- as simple as pie
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Informal
Idiomatic
noun
A type of food with a filling like meat or fruit, cooked in a pastry crust.
She made an apple pie for dessert.
Often appears as...
- make a pie
- bake a pie
noun
A type of chart or graph.
The pie chart showed the percentage of votes each candidate received.
Often appears as...
- pie chart
- draw a pie
Usage tips
Technical
noun
Part of a whole.
They divided the profits and each took a slice of the pie.
Often appears as...
- piece of pie
- slice of pie
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
noun
Something easy to achieve.
This game will be as easy as pie.
Often appears as...
- easy as pie
- as simple as pie
Usage tips
Informal
Idiomatic
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Dessert Usage
Pie often refers to a sweet dish served as a dessert after a meal.
Would you like some pie for dessert?
Pro Tip 2/3American Culture
'Pie' is a significant part of American cuisine and holidays like Thanksgiving.
Pumpkin pie is traditional on Thanksgiving.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Sweet
Not all pies are sweet; they can have savory fillings like chicken or beef.
She prefers a meat pie to a fruit pie.
Pro Tip 1/3Dessert Usage
Pie often refers to a sweet dish served as a dessert after a meal.
Would you like some pie for dessert?
Pro Tip 2/3American Culture
'Pie' is a significant part of American cuisine and holidays like Thanksgiving.
Pumpkin pie is traditional on Thanksgiving.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Sweet
Not all pies are sweet; they can have savory fillings like chicken or beef.
She prefers a meat pie to a fruit pie.
Pro Tip 1/3Dessert Usage
Pie often refers to a sweet dish served as a dessert after a meal.
Would you like some pie for dessert?
Pro Tip 2/3American Culture
'Pie' is a significant part of American cuisine and holidays like Thanksgiving.
Pumpkin pie is traditional on Thanksgiving.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Sweet
Not all pies are sweet; they can have savory fillings like chicken or beef.
She prefers a meat pie to a fruit pie.
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3 myths about the future...
But in the future, software is going to displace human beings from the driving seat, and these satnav systems, rather than complement human beings, will simply make these driverless cars more efficient, helping the machines instead. Or go to those indirect complementarities that I mentioned as well. The economic pie may get larger,
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The way we think about...
as little as possible on overhead things like fundraising under the theory that, well, the less money you spend on fundraising, the more money there is available for the cause. Well, that's true if it's a depressing world in which this pie cannot be made any bigger. But if it's a logical world in which investment in fundraising
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The next species of...
We've also got to cut the military about three percent a year. We've got to limit other mandatory spending. We've got to quit borrowing as much, because otherwise the interest is going to eat that whole pie. And we've got to end up with a smaller government. And if we don't start changing this trend line,
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The real reason female...
So what this means is that if you're asked a question about defending your start-up's market share, you'd be better served to frame your response around the size and growth potential of the overall pie as opposed to how you merely plan to protect your sliver of that pie. So if I get asked this question,
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How to get empowered,...
and we still can't figure out how to divide this pie so that everyone is better off, then shame on us. Alright, now raise your hand if your computer has ever crashed. Wow, that's a lot of hands. Well, then you'll appreciate this principle
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The next manufacturing...
how to live in a world with no growth in the next decade. This is scary because when the economy doesn't grow, our children don't get better lives. What's even scarier is that when the pie does not grow, each of us get a smaller piece.
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Distant time and the...
order to make an apple pie you must first invent the universe but he was not right in Boltzmann's scenario if you want to make an apple pie you just wait for the random motion of atoms to make you an apple pie that will happen much
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Goat Fetus PIPE Rare Foods
dearest friends to her house for an extra special treat a local delicacy called cutie pie so tasty it's not just liked it's loved what you buy beats everything so gruesome it can turn your stomach I've never eaten it and frankly
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Upgrading management...
in other words business is rapidly involving and worked as not if we were to take apart this pie chart and replace the word email with memo this could represent the life of a worker one century ago and it's frustrating because
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Why we need to end the...
I had to eat a big piece of humble pie to admit that I had made a mistake and inadvertently become a part of the problem. I had been an orphanage tourist, a voluntourist.
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3 myths about the future...
But in the future, software is going to displace human beings from the driving seat, and these satnav systems, rather than complement human beings, will simply make these driverless cars more efficient, helping the machines instead. Or go to those indirect complementarities that I mentioned as well. The economic pie may get larger,
Video examples
The way we think about...
as little as possible on overhead things like fundraising under the theory that, well, the less money you spend on fundraising, the more money there is available for the cause. Well, that's true if it's a depressing world in which this pie cannot be made any bigger. But if it's a logical world in which investment in fundraising
Video examples
The next species of...
We've also got to cut the military about three percent a year. We've got to limit other mandatory spending. We've got to quit borrowing as much, because otherwise the interest is going to eat that whole pie. And we've got to end up with a smaller government. And if we don't start changing this trend line,
Video examples
The real reason female...
So what this means is that if you're asked a question about defending your start-up's market share, you'd be better served to frame your response around the size and growth potential of the overall pie as opposed to how you merely plan to protect your sliver of that pie. So if I get asked this question,
Video examples
How to get empowered,...
and we still can't figure out how to divide this pie so that everyone is better off, then shame on us. Alright, now raise your hand if your computer has ever crashed. Wow, that's a lot of hands. Well, then you'll appreciate this principle
Video examples
The next manufacturing...
how to live in a world with no growth in the next decade. This is scary because when the economy doesn't grow, our children don't get better lives. What's even scarier is that when the pie does not grow, each of us get a smaller piece.
Video examples
Distant time and the...
order to make an apple pie you must first invent the universe but he was not right in Boltzmann's scenario if you want to make an apple pie you just wait for the random motion of atoms to make you an apple pie that will happen much
Video examples
Goat Fetus PIPE Rare Foods
dearest friends to her house for an extra special treat a local delicacy called cutie pie so tasty it's not just liked it's loved what you buy beats everything so gruesome it can turn your stomach I've never eaten it and frankly
Video examples
Upgrading management...
in other words business is rapidly involving and worked as not if we were to take apart this pie chart and replace the word email with memo this could represent the life of a worker one century ago and it's frustrating because
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Why we need to end the...
I had to eat a big piece of humble pie to admit that I had made a mistake and inadvertently become a part of the problem. I had been an orphanage tourist, a voluntourist.
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Hilary Duff
American Actress
I don't believe in having one partner for your whole life, but I hope I get married. I want to have a husband and two kids and a nice little life baking pies. I'm quite romantic. It's definitely important to have someone make you feel special.
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David Hewlett
English Actor
The nature of filmmaking is that there are so many people involved in it, so many fingers in the pie, that part of the talent of a director is to try and get your personality through in the movie.
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William Weld
American Politician
I suggest to you that increasing the size of America's economic pie - which can be achieved only if everybody has a seat at the table - is the most important challenge facing our country today.
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Sarah Shahi
American Actress
My biggest fantasy was to have a pie thrown in my face, and I always said whoever did that, that's the guy I'd marry.
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Paula Deen
American Chef
I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.
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Simon Sinek
English Author
I don't enjoy eating humble pie; it never tastes good. But I do appreciate it when it happens.
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Carl Sagan
American Scientist
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Benny Cassette
American Musician
The most beautiful thing in the world is my grandmother's apple pie.
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Jordan Fisher
American Musician
Everyone in my life who is important, they feed me humble pie.
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Patti Smith
American Musician
You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.
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Hilary Duff
American Actress
I don't believe in having one partner for your whole life, but I hope I get married. I want to have a husband and two kids and a nice little life baking pies. I'm quite romantic. It's definitely important to have someone make you feel special.
Quote examples
David Hewlett
English Actor
The nature of filmmaking is that there are so many people involved in it, so many fingers in the pie, that part of the talent of a director is to try and get your personality through in the movie.
Quote examples
William Weld
American Politician
I suggest to you that increasing the size of America's economic pie - which can be achieved only if everybody has a seat at the table - is the most important challenge facing our country today.
Quote examples
Sarah Shahi
American Actress
My biggest fantasy was to have a pie thrown in my face, and I always said whoever did that, that's the guy I'd marry.
Quote examples
Paula Deen
American Chef
I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.
Quote examples
Simon Sinek
English Author
I don't enjoy eating humble pie; it never tastes good. But I do appreciate it when it happens.
Quote examples
Carl Sagan
American Scientist
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Quote examples
Benny Cassette
American Musician
The most beautiful thing in the world is my grandmother's apple pie.
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Jordan Fisher
American Musician
Everyone in my life who is important, they feed me humble pie.
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Patti Smith
American Musician
You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.
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