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# pie

«pie» in Mova's school dictionary: **food made of pastry filled with fruit, meat or vegetables…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a pie, pies; pie)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A pie is food made of pastry filled with fruit, meat or vegetables and baked in an oven. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pie/#m1)

2) A pie chart is a round graph cut into slices that show parts of a whole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pie/#m2)

3) «Pi» (π) is a different word that sounds the same: the number about 3.14 used for circles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pie/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life pies are common foods: apple pie, meat pie, shepherd's pie, pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving. In maths a pie chart shows fractions or percentages of a whole as slices. Phrases: «a piece of pie», «a slice of pie», «as easy as pie», «pie chart», «a finger in every pie».

### examples

- Grandma baked an apple pie. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pie/#x1)
- Can I have a slice of pumpkin pie? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pie/#x2)
- In Australia people often eat a meat pie at the football. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pie/#x3)
- The pie chart shows that half the class likes dogs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pie/#x4)
- Cut the pie into eight equal pieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pie/#x5)
- That test was as easy as pie! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pie/#x6)
- Let the pie cool before you eat it, or you'll burn your mouth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pie/#x7)
- ‘That is an admirable pie, little kitchen-maid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pie/#x8)

### note

Countable (a pie, two pies) and uncountable (some pie). Homophone: «pi» (π ≈ 3.14). In a fraction problem, cutting a pie into 8 equal pieces makes each piece 1/8. On a pie chart all slices add up to the whole (100%, or 360 degrees).

### In the corpora

- [The next verse goes wrong too, about an Owl and a Panther sharing a pie, and they let her stop.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/9/)
- [Home, indeed!» — then turns his back and eats a large slice of cold pie.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/7/)
- ["Telling porkies" is British slang for telling lies, from the rhyming slang "porky pies" for lies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/20/)
- [In Brisbane, Kirra and Jai start a YouTube channel reviewing servo pies (a servo is a petrol station).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals/26/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pie» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pie/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.